Featured Speakers:
Mohammed AlQuraishi, PhD
(Columbia University)
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems Biology and a member of Columbia’s Program for Mathematical Genomics, where he works at the intersection of machine learning, biophysics, and systems biology. Prior to starting his academic career, Dr. AlQuraishi spent three years founding two startups in the mobile computing space.
Avery Posey Jr., PhD
(University of Pennsylvania)
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, a member researcher of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, and a Research Health Scientist at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center. The Posey Laboratory generates novel CAR T cell therapies targeting tumor-associated glycosylation and investigates strategies to enhance CAR T cell persistence and overcome tumorinduced immunosuppression.
Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci FRS
(Wellcome Sanger Institute)
is a systems and genome biologist who heads the Cellular Genetics programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge. Dr. Teichmann’s research group develops and applies cell atlasing technologies to map human tissue architecture in order to understand health and disease. In 2016, she co-founded the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium, which she continues to co-lead. Dr. Teichmann is also the Director of Research at the Physics Department at the University of Cambridge.
Kevin Schey, Ph.D.
- Professor of Biochemistry, Ophthalmology
Kevin Schey, Ph.D.
- Professor of Biochemistry, Ophthalmology
k.schey@vanderbilt.edu
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Daniel Gochberg, Ph.D.
- Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences and Physics and Astronomy
Daniel Gochberg, Ph.D.
- Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences and Physics and Astronomy
daniel.gochberg@vumc.org
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Jessica Ancker, Ph.D., M.P.H.
- Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Jessica Ancker, Ph.D., M.P.H.
- Professor of Biomedical Informatics
jessica.s.ancker@vumc.org