October 22-23, 2025
Washington, DC
Keynote Session
Speakers:
Eric Green, Former Director, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Karen Avraham, Dean, Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Session II: Genetics of Complex Traits and Common Morbidity Over a Lifetime
Speakers:
Sagiv Shifman, Professor of Neurogenetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Noah Zaitlen, Professor of Computational Medicine, University of California Los Angeles
Elizabeth Phillips, Professor of Medicine, John A. Oates Chair in Clinical Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Session III: Germline and Somatic Cancer Genomics
Speakers:
Moshe Oren, Professor Emeritus, Weizmann Institute of Science
Arul Chinnaiyan, Director, Michigan Center for Translational Pathology
Victor Velculescu, Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Matthew Meyerson, Charles A. Dana Chair in Human Cancer Genetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Yardena Samuels, Full Professor, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Session IV: Computational Genomics and AI in Genome Research
Speakers:
Amos Tanay, Professor, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Olga Troyanskaya, Professor, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
Noam Shomron, Professor of Digital Medicine and Functional Genomics, Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Session V: Maintenance of Genome Stability
Speakers:
Tanya Paull, Professor, Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin
Jennifer Gerton, Investigator and Dean, Stowers Institute
Session VI: Singe-Gene Disorders and Prospects for Therapy
Speakers:
Ohad Birk, Professor, Director of Genetics Institute and Precision Medicine, Sheba Medical Center; Head, Laboratory of Human Genetics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Vijay G. Sankaran, Paradise Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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