Speaker Profile
M.D., Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Genome Canada
Biography
Dr. Lopez-Correa is the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at Genome Canada. Dr. Lopez-Correa has dedicated her career to genomics and its transformative applications in life sciences in Canada and internationally. As CSO at Genome Quebec (2008-2015) and Genome BC (2015-2019), she was instrumental in developing competitive teams for research and innovation initiatives raising the profile of Canadian genomics on the global stage. Recently, as the Executive Director of the Canadian COVID19 Genomics Network (CanCOGeN) she led a $40M initiative to advance the use of genomics to understand and control the COVID19 pandemic. Now, as CSO of Genome Canada, she is taking genomics to the next level, by advancing mission driven initiatives using genomics to solve the most pressing global challenges.
Dr. Lopez-Correa’s work has been recognized with several awards. In 2017 the Canadian Senate 150th Anniversary Medal, in 2013 the National Order of Merit from Colombia.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2023 Silicon Valley
Track Chairs:
Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance & Alice Rathjen
- PMWC 2023 Award Ceremony:
Pioneer Honoree: David Bentley, Ilumina
- Learnings and Advancements of Population Studies (PANEL)
Chair: Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance
- David Bentley, Illumina
- Slavé Petrovski, AstraZeneca
- Andrea Ganna, FinnGen
- Robert Wildin, University of Vermont Health
- Alexander Charney, Mount Sinai - Precision Medicine in Understudied Populations
- Ryan Taft, Illumina
- Aimé LUMAKA, WALGEMED - Building Future Precision Care in Qatar
Chair: Khalid Fakhro, Sidra Medicine
- Ziyad M. Hijazi, Sidra Medicine
- Edison T. Liu, The Jackson Labs
- Challenges and Opportunities for National Precision Medicine Initiatives (PANEL)
Chair: Alessandro Riccombeni, Microsoft UK
- Catalina Lopez-Correa, Genome Canada
- Khalid Fakhro, Sidra Medicine
- Framework to Improve the Translation of Genomics into the Clinic (PANEL)
Chair: Kathleen Barnes, Tempus Labs
- Carlos Bustamante, Galatea Bio
- Ora Gordon, Providence
- Abasi Ene-Obong, 54gene - Identifying Relationships Between Disparate Data Sets to Monitor and Control Pathogen Outbreak (PANEL)
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Amy Kirby, CDC
- Smruthi Karthikeyan, Caltech - Increasing Diversity in Population Studies
- Manual Rivas - Global Biobank Engine, Stanford Rivas Lab
- The Missing Diversity in Human Epigenomic Studies
- Charles E. Breeze, National Cancer Institute
- The Transition from Genomics to Phenomics in Precision Population Health
- Lee Hood, Phenome Health
