Speakers
Thank you to the speakers of 2024 Breakthrough West!

Elisabeth Bik, Ph.D.
Science Integrity Consultant

Peter Lee, Ph.D.
President, Microsoft Research

Andy Coravos
Managing Director, HumanFirst, acquired by ICON

Colin Murdoch
President of Isomorphic Labs & Chief Business Officer, Google DeepMind

Kimberly Powell
Vice President of Healthcare, NVIDIA

Sholto David, Ph.D.
Former Analytical Scientist

Ida Sim, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chief Research Informatics Officer, UCSF

Bob Kocher, M.D.
Partner, Venrock

Gilad Almogy, Ph.D.
CEO and Co-Founder, Ultima Genomics

Ayesha Appa, M.D.
Addiction Medicine & Infectious Diseases Physician; Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF

Sponsor Speaker
Jared Baeten, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice President, HIV Clinical Development, Gilead Sciences

Robert Blum
President & CEO, Cytokinetics

Sponsor Speaker
Richard Bonneau, Ph.D.
VP Machine Learning for Drug Discovery, Genentech

Braunz Courtney
Executive Director, HIV Education and Prevention Project of Alameda County (HEPPAC)

Sponsor Speaker
Patricia Brennan
Vice President of Science Technology, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Melissa Hanna, J.D.
Co-Founder & CEO, Mahmee

Patrick Hsu, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Core Investigator of the Arc Institute and assistant Ppofessor of Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley

Keith Humphreys, Ph.D.
Esther Ting Memorial Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

Sponsor Speaker
Theofanis Karaletsos
Head of AI for Science, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

David Kim, M.D.
Executive Vice President, Clinical Institutes MemorialCare Health System and Chief Executive Officer, MemorialCare Medical Foundation

Daphne Koller, Ph.D.
CEO and Founder, insitro

Derek Lowe, Ph.D.
Director, Discovery Sciences, Novartis; Author, “In the Pipeline”

Akira Matsuno
President, Chief Financial Officer, and Co-Founder, Tune

Vijay Pande, Ph.D.
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Dina Radenkovic, MBBS
CEO and Co-Founder, Gameto

Shiv Rao, M.D.
CEO & Founder, Abridge

Mike Rea
CEO, IDEA Pharma

Kimberly Seals Allers
Founder, IRTH

Simmone Taitt
Founder & CEO, Poppy Seed Health

Sponsor Speaker
Erica Taylor, Ph.D.
Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, Genentech

Sponsor Speaker
Pierre Theodore, M.D.
Head, Patient Impact and Health Equity, Genentech

Moderator
Mario Aguilar
Health Tech Correspondent, STAT

Moderator
Rick Berke
Co-Founder and Executive Editor, STAT

Moderator
Allison DeAngelis
Biotech Startups and Venture Capital Reporter, STAT

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Adam Feuerstein
Senior Writer, Biotech, STAT

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Matthew Herper
Senior Writer, Medicine; Editorial Director of Events, STAT

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Lizzy Lawrence
Medical Devices Reporter, STAT

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Katherine MacPhail
Programmer, Editorial Events, STAT

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Usha Lee McFarling
National Science Correspondent, STAT

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Mohana Ravindranath
Bay Area Correspondent, STAT

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Casey Ross
National Health Technology Correspondent, STAT

Moderator
Nicholas St. Fleur
General Assignment Reporter; Associate Editorial Director of Events, STAT

Moderator
Jonathan Wosen, Ph.D.
West Coast Biotech & Life Sciences Reporter, STAT