Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Eleventh Annual 

Biomarkers & Diagnostics World Congress 2015

May 5-7, 2015 | Loews Philadelphia Hotel | Philadelphia, PA


May 5-6

May 6-7

Biomarkers for Patient Selection 


Biomarkers for Patient Selection
 

Companion Diagnostics Summit 


Companion Diagnostics
 

Big Data for Personalized Medicine and Biomarker Discovery 


Big Data for Personalized Medicine and Biomarker Discovery
 

Clinical and Translational Biomarkers in Drug Discovery 


Clinical and Translational Biomarkers in Drug Discovery
 

Cell-Free Biomarkers and Diagnostics 


Cell-Free Biomarkers and Diagnostics
 

Clinical NGS Testing 


Clinical NGS Testing
 

Predictive Cancer Biomarkers 


Predictive Cancer Biomarkers
 

 

 

Featured Speakers: 


Raghu Kalluri 

Raghu Kalluri, Chair, Cancer Biology, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Nicholas C. Dracopoli 

Nicholas C. Dracopoli, Ph.D., Vice President, Janssen R&D, Johnson & Johnson

Marc Ladanyi 

Marc Ladanyi, Chair, Molecular Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Michael E. Burczynski 

Michael E. Burczynski, Executive Director, Biomarker Technologies Bristol-Myers Squibb

Dennis Slamon  

Dennis J. Slamon, Chief, Hematology & Oncology, University of California, Los Angeles

Kenneth Emancipator 

Kenneth Emancipator, M.D., Director, Companion Diagnostics, Merck Research Labs

Elaine Lyon 

Elaine Lyon, Ph.D., Medical Director, ARUP Laboratories

Alan T. Wright 

Alan T. Wright, M.D., CMO, Roche Diagnostics Corporation

Darrell R. Borger 

Darrell R. Borger, Director, Biomarker Laboratory, Harvard Medical School

Monica Motwani 

Monica Motwani, Ph.D., Director, Precision Medicine & Diagnostics, GlaxoSmithKline


Dinner SHORT Courses* 


Tuesday, May 5, 6:00-9:00 pm


SC1: Fit-for-Purpose Biomarker Assay Development and Validation

John L. Allinson, FIBMS, Head, Biomarker Strategy, Drug Development Services, LGC Group
Viswanath Devanarayan, Ph.D., Global Head & Senior Research Fellow, Exploratory Statistics & Bioinformatics, AbbVie, Inc.


Wednesday, May 6, 6:00-9:00 pm


SC2: Next-Generation Sequencing as a Clinical Test

Seth Crosby, M.D., Director, Partnerships & Alliances, Washington University School of Medicine
Avni Santani, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Clinical Pathology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine



*Separate Registration Required.


Key Contacts: 



For meeting questions or suggestions:
Julia BoguslavskyJulia Boguslavsky
Executive Director, Conferences
Cambridge Healthtech Institute

E: juliab@healthtech.com 



For partnering and sponsorship information:
Ilana QuigleyIlana Quigley
Manager, Business Development
Cambridge Healthtech Institute

T: 781-972-5457
E: iquigley@healthtech.com
 



For media and association partnerships:
Rich HandyRich Handy
Senior Director, Marketing
Cambridge Healthtech Institute

T: 781.972.5456
E: rhandy@healthtech.com
 


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