Speaker Profile
Ph.D., SVP Applications and Scientific Affairs, Element Biosciences
Biography
Shawn has over 20 years of experience in genomic applications development and technology optimization as well as operational management of research and development and clinical testing programs. Shawn has served in a variety of roles in industry and academia. While at HudsonAlpha, Shawn developed a comprehensive genomics facility that has supported more than 5,200 projects from locations around the world. His lab has raised more than $150M in extramural funding, culminating in the largest financial transaction in HudsonAlpha’s history when the assets of his research group were sold to Discovery Life Sciences. Before HudsonAlpha, Shawn was a faculty member at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. He is an author or co-author on more than 200 peer-reviewed publications with over 45,000 citations.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2023 Silicon Valley
Track Chair: Cindy Lawley, Olink
- How New Public-Private Collaboratives Can Catalyze Transformative Health Breakthroughs
Chair: Keith Yamamoto, UCSF
- Douglas Friedman, Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC)
- Jay Keasling, JBEI (Joint BioEnergy Institute)
- Renee Wegrzyn, ARPA-H - Moving Sequencing into the Clinical Setting
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Charlotte Hobbs, Rady Children’s Hospital
- Euan Ashley, Stanford University
- Sivan Bercovici, Karius
- Heike Sichtig, Foundation Medicine - Evolving Sequencing Applications: Spatial Single-Cell Multi-Omics
Chair: Michael Rhodes, NanoString
- Chrstina Curtis, Stanford - How will Cheap Genome Sequencing Impact Genomic Medicine (PANEL)
Chair: Euan Ashley, Stanford
- Shawn Levy, Element Biosciences
- Aleks Rajkovic, UCSF
- David Bentley, Illumina
- Stacey Gabriel, Broad Inst.
- Sean Hofherr, Fabric Genomics - Single-cell, Spatial, and in Situ Technologies
Chair: Dina Finan, 10x Genomics
- Carina Emery, Miltenyi Biotec - Combining WGS with a AI-based Tumor Enrichment Method
Chair: Asaf Zviran, C2I
- Multi-omics Approaches Supporting Clinical Translation
Chair: Cindy Lawley, Olink
- Erin Smith, Takeda
- Si Wu, Stanford
- Christopher Whelan, J&J - Molecular Diagnosis New standard with NGS for Neurological and Infectious Conditions
Chair: Scott Rabuka, DNA Genotek
- Forrest Wright, Quadrant Laboratories
- Frank Middleton, SUNY Upstate Medical University - PMWC Showcase
- Josh Lauer, Ultime
- Olivier Lucas, Oxford Nanopore
- Lukasz Boryn, Ardigen
