Speaking Faculty
Jason Aliotta, M.D., Assistant Professor, Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University
Christos Argyropoulos, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Anindya Bagchi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
Martin Beaulieu, Ph.D., Director, MicroMarkers™, Regulus Therapeutics
Jacqueline Bromberg, M.D., Ph.D., Physician-Scientist, Breast Cancer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Dimple Chakravarty, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pathology, Weill Cornell Medical College
Clark C. Chen, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chief, Stereotactic and Radiosurgery; Vice-Chairman, Academic Affairs, Neurosurgery, University of California, San Diego
John Chevillet, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory of Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology
Ana Coelho, Ph.D., Professor, Oncology, Portuguese Oncology Institute
Carlo M. Croce, M.D., Distinguished University Professor, The John W. Wolfe Chair in Human Cancer Genetics, Director, Genetics Institute, The Ohio State University
Seth Crosby, M.D., Director, Partnerships & Alliances, Washington University School of Medicine
Saumya Das, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Lucas Dennis, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, NanoString Technologies
Nadya Dimitrova, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Tyler Jacks, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard R. Drake, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Pharmacology, Medical University of South Carolina Proteomics Center
Muller Fabbri, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Elena Flowers, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
Susan Freier, Ph.D., Vice President and Distinguished Research Fellow, Isis Pharmaceuticals
Roopali Gandhi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Neurology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Michal Gilon, Ph.D., Vice President, R&D, BioCancell
Ajay Goel, Ph.D., Director, Epigenetics and Cancer Prevention, Baylor Research Institute
Myriam Gorospe, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging-Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health
Michael Graner, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Richard I. Gregory, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), Harvard Medical School
Cheryl Helgason, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Experimental Therapeutics, BC Cancer Research Center
David Henshall, Ph.D., Professor, Physiology & Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Lynn Hlatky, Ph.D., Professor, Medicine, and Director of Cancer Systems Biology, Tufts University
David S. Hong, M.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Hang Hubert Yin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry and the BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder
Sundararajan Jayaraman, Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor, Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bing-Hua Jiang, Ph.D., Professor, Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University
Jingfang Ju, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Co-Director, Translational Research, Pathology, Stony Brook University
Raghu Kalluri, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Cancer Biology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Andrea Kasinski, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Purdue University
Ahmad M. Khalil, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Richard P. Kraig, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Neurology, The University of Chicago Medical Center
Pavan Kumar, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Biomarkers and Personalized Medicine, Eisai
Louise C. Laurent, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Reproductive Medicine, University of California San Diego Health Science
Hakho Lee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Hungyun Lin, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Drug Safety R&D, Pfizer
Ming-Lin Liu, M.D., Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Dermatology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Subhrangsu S. Mandal, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Texas Arlington
Imad Matouk, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Abraham Hochberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine
Peter Mouritzen, Vice President Research and Development, Exiqon A/S
Radha Munagala, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville
Rounak Nassirpour, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Investigative Pathology Laboratory, Drug Safety R&D, Pfizer
Iman Osman, M.D., Associate Director, NYU Cancer Institute & Professor, Oncology, and Director, NYU Interdisciplinary Melanoma Coop Group, New York University Langone Medical Center
Mira Pavkovic, Ph.D., Bayer Pharma AG, GDD-GED-Toxicology; currently Postdoctoral Fellow, Systems Pharmacology, Harvard
Alexander Pertsemlidis, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Cellular & Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Yigal Pinto, Ph.D., Professor, Cardiology and The Heart Failure Research Center, Academic Medical Center, Netherlands
Janusz Rak, M.D., Ph.D., Jack Cole Chair in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Professor of Pediatrics, McGill University, Montreal Children’s Hospital, RI MUHC
Matthew Roth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor & Co-Director, Bioinformatics Research Lab, Baylor College of Medicine; Data Management & Resource Repository of the Extracellular RNA Consortium (NIH)
Subrata Sen, Ph.D., Professor and Deputy Chair, Translational Molecular Pathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Tatiana Sharapova, Ph.D., Scientist I, Cellular and Molecular Biology, AbbVie
Kira Sheinerman, Ph.D., CEO, DiamiR Biosciences Corp.
Qiang Shi, Ph.D., Visiting Scientist, Division of Systems Biology, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Frank J. Slack, Ph.D., Director, Institute for RNA Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Aaron Smith, Senior Toxicologist, Investigative Toxicology, Lilly Research Laboratories
Sharon Sokolowski, Ph.D. Principal Scientist, Pfizer Global Research & Development
Anil K. Sood, M.D., Professor and Vice Chairman, Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Valerie Taly, Ph.D., Group leader, CNRS researcher, University Paris-Descartes
Scott J. Tebbutt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, & CSO, PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, Canada
Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, Ph.D., Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Mark L. Tykocinski, M.D., Scientific Advisory Board
Gerald W. Verhaegh, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Laboratory of Jack Schalken, Department of Experimental Urology, Radboud University Medical Center
Andrew West, Ph.D., John A. and Ruth R. Jurenko Professor of Neurology; Associate Professor, Neurology and Neurobiology; Co-Director, Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Theresa Whiteside, Ph.D., M.D.H.C., Professor, Pathology, Immunology & Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
David T.W. Wong, D.M.D., DMSc, Professor and Associate Dean of Research, UCLA School of Dentistry; Director, Dental Research Institute
Caroline J. Woo, Ph.D., Scientist, RaNA Therapeutics
Austin Yang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland
Xi Yang, Ph.D., Research Biologist, Systems Biology, FDA/National Center for Toxicological Research
Peter Yuen, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Renal Diagnostics & Therapeutics Unit, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Xuemei Zhao, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Molecular Biomarkers and Diagnostics Laboratory, Merck