FAST Congress

Distinguished Faculty:


Edward Abrahams, Ph.D., Executive Director, Personalized Medicine Coalition

 

John L. Allinson, FIBMS, Vice President, Biomarker Laboratory Services, ICON Development Solutions

 

Zoran Antonijevic, Ph.D., Senior Director, Center for Statistics in Drug Development, Innovation, Quintiles

 

Haifeng Bao, Ph.D., Research & Development, Translational Sciences, Medimmune

 

Emily Boja, Ph.D., Program Manager, Clinical Proteomic Technologies for Cancer, Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

 

Brian Buxton, M.B.A., Principal, Easton Associates, LLC

 

Walter P. Carney, Ph.D., Head, Oncogene Science, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.

 

Jeffrey J. Chalmers, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University

 

Mark Chance, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University

 

Jason Clark, Ph.D., Associate Director, BARDS, Merck Research Labs

 

Brent Cochran, Ph.D., Principle Investigator, Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine

 

Robert Cuffe, Ph.D., Statistician, Infectious Diseases, Medicine Development Centre, GlaxoSmithKline

 

Viswanath Devanarayan, Ph.D., Director, Exploratory Statistics, Abbott Laboratories

 

Asif Dhar, M.D., M.B.A., Senior Fellow, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions; Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Deloitte Consulting LLP

 

Luis Diaz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University 

 

Krassen Dimitrov, Ph.D., Group Leader, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Australia

 

Jennifer Dudinak, Ph.D., Global Head, Inflammation, Regulatory Affairs, Roche

 

Brian T. Edmonds, Ph.D., Research Advisor, Global External Research & Development, Lilly Corporate Center

 

Dean W. Felsher, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Oncology, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Stanford University

 

Martin Fleisher, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Clinical Laboratories, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

 

Markus H. Frank, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Boston; Associate Physician, Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

 

Jian-Xin Gao, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Ohio State University Medical Center

 

Jeffrey N. Gibbs, J.D., Director, Hyman, Phelps and McNamara, P.C.

 

Erich A. Gombocz, Ph.D., Vice President & CSO, IO Informatics, Inc.

 

Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health

 

Andrew Grupe, Ph.D., Senior Director, Pharmacogenomics Research & Development, Celera Diagnostics

 

Adam Hamm, Ph.D., Director, Biostatistics, Clinsys Clinical Research

 

Franz Hessel, M.D., M.P.H., Director, International Health Economics Outcomes Research, Abbott Diagnostics

 

Renee Deehan Kenney, Ph.D., Senior Director, Scientific Research and Operations, Discovery, Genstruct, Inc.

 

Joshua LaBaer, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University

 

Douglas F. Lake, Ph.D., Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University

 

Andrea H. Lauber, Ph.D., Head, Transactions for Clinical Biomarkers and Pharmacodiagnostics, Strategic Transactions Group, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

 

Jae K. Lee, Ph.D., Director and Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine 

 

Kenneth Liu, Ph.D., Senior Biometrician, Merck & Co.

 

Minetta C. Liu, M.D., Associate Professor, Medicine and Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Hospital

 

Nita Maihle, Ph.D., Professor, Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Sciences and Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine

 

Ramkumar Mandalam, President & CEO, Cellerant Therapeutics

 

David H. Manner, Ph.D., Group Leader, Exploratory and Programme Medical Statistics, Eli Lilly

 

Ruth E. March, Ph.D., Personalized Healthcare Leader, AstraZeneca

 

Robert McCormack, Ph.D., Vice President, Scientific and Medical Affairs, Veridex, LLC

 

Gerry J. McDougall, Partner, Personalized Medicine and Health Sciences Practices, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

 

Gary Means, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Molecular Sciences Group, Amgen, Inc.

 

Iain D. Miller, Ph.D., Executive Director, Theranostics Strategy and Business Development, bioMerieux

 

David Nelson, Ph.D., President and CEO, Epic Sciences, Inc.

 

Raymond T. Ng, Ph.D., CIO, PROOF Centre of Excellence; Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia

 

Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan School of Medicine

 

Jun Lu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Yale University Department of Genetics, Yale Stem Cell Center

 

Itay Perlstein, Ph.D., Scientist, Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology, Merck & Co., Inc.

 

Emanuel Petricoin, Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine; Professor, Life Sciences, George Mason University

 

Elizabeth Punnoose, Ph.D., Scientist, Development Oncology Diagnostics, Genentech, Inc.

 

Bharat Rao, Ph.D., Head, Knowledge Solutions Group, Image and Knowledge Management (IKM CKS) Division, Siemens Healthcare

 

Thomas Ried, M.D., Chief, Section of Cancer Genomics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

 

Donna Roscoe, Ph.D., Scientific Reviewer, DIHD/OIVD/CDRH, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

 

Allan Rosen, M.S., Associate Director, Biostatistics, Kendle International, Inc.

 

Mollie Roth, J.D., Corporate Counsel, Vice President, Business Development, Diaceutics; Visiting Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science and Innovation, The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

 

David R. Shalinsky, Ph.D., Associate Director, Translational Oncology, Pfizer Oncology Business Unit, Pfizer, Inc.

 

Zhenming Shun, Ph.D., Director, U.S. Head, Oncology, Biostatistics and Programming, Sanofi-Aventis

 

Yu Shyr, Ph.D., Professor and Chief, Division of Cancer Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics; Director, Cancer Biostatistics Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

 

Ashwani Sood, Ph.D., Member and Assistant Professor, Oncology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY at Buffalo, Roswell Park Cancer Institute

 

Daniel S. Spellman, Ph.D., Senior Research Biochemist, Proteomics, Merck Research Laboratories

 

Zoltan Szallasi, M.D., Senior Scientist, Informatics Program, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School

 

Kay S. Tatsuoka, Ph.D., Manager, Discovery Biometrics & Quantitative Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline

 

Paul Tempst, Ph.D., Director, Protein Center; Member and Professor, Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

 

Živana Težak, Ph.D., Associate Director for Science and Technology, Personalized Medicine/OIVD/CDRH, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

 

Kirsten Vang Nielsen, Ph.D., Senior Principal Scientist, Research & Development, Dako A/S

 

Pantelis Vlachos, Ph.D., Principal Biostatistician, Merck Serono International S.A.

 

J. Kyle Wathen, Ph.D., Research Statistician, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

 

Glen Weiss, M.D., Co-Head, Lung Cancer Unit, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen); Director, Thoracic Oncology, TGen Clinical Research Services at Scottsdale Healthcare

 

Anne Wiles, Advanced Analytics Strategist, Health and Life Sciences, SAS Institute, Inc.

 

Stephen Wong, Ph.D., Director, Center for Bioengineering and Informatics, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College

 

Vladimir Zharov, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Philips Classic Laser & Nanomedicine Laboratories; Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences