Speaker Profile
M.D., Professor / Principal Investigator, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Biography
Dr. Larry Corey is an internationally renowned expert in virology, immunology and vaccine development, and the former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. His research focuses on herpes viruses, HIV, the novel coronavirus and other viral infections, including those associated with cancer. He is principal investigator of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, or HVTN, which conducts studies of HIV vaccines at over 80 clinical trials sites in 16 countries on five continents. Dr. Corey is also the principal investigator of the Fred Hutch-based operations center of the COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN) and co-leads the Network’s COVID-19 vaccine testing pipeline. The CoVPN is carrying out the large Operation Warp Speed portfolio of COVID-19 vaccines and monoclonal antibodies intended to protect people from COVID-19.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2022 Silicon Valley
Panel
Session Abstract – PMWC 2022 Silicon Valley
The COVID-19 pandemic is driving the unprecedented transformation of the global medical research ecosystem through the search for effective new therapeutics that can help ease symptoms and prevent death among COVID-19 patients.
- SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak Surveillance (PANEL)
Session Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Bronwyn MacInnis, The Broad Institute
- Duncan MacCannell, CDC
- Christopher E. Mason, Weill Cornell Medicine
- Joel Sevinsky, Theiagen - Experiences from the Front Lines of a National Viral Surveillance Organization
Session Chair: Erin Allday, The San Francisco Chronicle
- James Lu, Helix
- Sam Scarpino, Rockefeller Foundation - COVID-19 Testing: Who, When, What? The Challenges of Testing During the Pandemic (PANEL)
Session Chair: Alan Wu, UCSF
- Gary Pestano, Biodesix
- John Barnes, CDC
- Kathleen Jacobson, CA COVID Testing Task Force - Updates in COVID-19 Drug Development
Fireside Chat: Aida Habtezion, Pfizer & Lee Hood, Phenome Health
- Mark Dresser, Gilead Sciences
- John Fahy, UCSF
- Yi Shi, Mount Sinai
- Evolving SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines
- Daniela Weiskopf, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
- Karin Jooss, Gritstone - Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions
- Stacey Adam, FNIH
- Past, Present, and Future: How will We Manage the Next Pandemic? (PANEL)
Session Chair: Julianne McCall, California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine
- Lawrence Corey, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Yvonne A Maldonado, Stanford
- Robert Wachter, UCSF
- Tomás Aragón, CDPH - PMWC Showcase
- Anne Wyllie, Yale
