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Overview
Now that we have had our first scientific successes in precision medicine and even a new federal precision medicine initiative, will it help us treat disease? Even if we can more precisely diagnose patients and prognosticate about their future, does this mean we will have the right treatments for them? Do we have to wait for the traditional flow of science through the large pharmaceutical companies to get new effective drugs? Will engineering, whether in gene editing or device hacking, revolutionize care?
Precision Medicine: Rogue Therapeutics will directly address these questions and give a premeditatedly iconoclastic perspective. Our keynote speaker, Karen Aiach, did not start in medicine or pharmaceuticals, but specifically because of her long clinical journey with her daughter has founded a rapidly-growing biotech company for the treatment of the disorders of her child and those of others. We will also have panels featuring similarly patient-focused and even impatient approaches to finding therapies. As you can see from the agenda, this symposium follows very much in the spirit of our successful conference last year, Precision Medicine: Patient Driven.
Date
Wednesday, June 22, 2016, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm ET
Location
Joseph B. Martin Amphitheater, 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur, Boston
Agenda
Welcome and Opening Remarks – Zak Kohane
Keynote – Karen Aiach, Lysogene: Rare Informs the Common
PANEL 1: What is driving Precision Medicine?
Ashish Jha, Harvard School of Public Health (moderator)
Carey Goldberg, WBUR
Gail Marcus, ELI Healthcare Consultant
Joseph Newhouse, Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
PANEL 2: What happens when patients take over?
Bill Gahl, Undiagnosed Diseases Network (moderator)
Matt Might, University of Utah
Eric Minikel & Sonia Vallabh, Broad Institute
Alison Skrinar, UltraGenyx Pharmaceutical
PANEL 3: Marijuana: recreational to medicinal?
Donald Abrams, University of California San Francisco
Kari Franson, University of Colorado School of Pharmacy
Ryan Vandrey, Johns Hopkins University
Larry Wolk, Colorado State Public Health
PANEL 4: Will engineering disrupt therapeutics?
Daniel Anderson, MIT
George Church, Harvard Medical School
Ed Damiano, Boston University
Alison Marsden, Stanford University
Closing Keynote – Dave deBronkart e-Patients: Empowered, Engaged, Equipped, Enabled
Conference co-sponsored by DBMI and PIC-SURE, a BD2K Center of Excellence
