Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Inaugural

Precision Medicine Beyond Oncology

Diagnostics and Personalized Medicine in Immunology, Neurology, and Metabolic Diseases

March 12 - 13, 2025 ALL TIMES PST

While most precision medicine success stories have been in oncology, similar strategies are being applied in other therapeutic areas, including immunology, neurology, metabolic, and cardiovascular diseases. Driven by novel blood-based diagnostics, genetic testing, and emerging biomarkers, precision medicine promises to identify patient populations, accelerate clinical trials, and improve market access across therapeutic indications. Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Inaugural Precision Medicine Beyond Oncology meeting will address emerging neuro-diagnostics, patient stratification strategies for immune-mediated diseases, predicting responders to GLP-1 receptor agonists, and more.

Wednesday, March 12

1:30 pmRegistration Open

PRECISION MEDICINE IN NEUROLOGY: DIAGNOSTICS, BIOMARKERS, AND DRUG DEVELOPMENT

2:00 pm

Chairperson's Remarks

Joel Braunstein, MD, Co-Founder & CEO, C2N Diagnostics

2:05 pm

Personalized Precision Therapeutics: Investigational Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapy for Children with Autism and Epilepsy due to Causal SCN2A Variants

Olivia Kim-McManus, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Neurosciences, UCSD Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine

SCN2A related disorder is a rare genetic disease characterized by intractable seizures, developmental delay, and gait ataxia with no treatments.  WE are currently in clinical trial with an allele-specific antisense oligonucleotide and tailored outcome measures, with positive safety and early efficacy signals.  This ASO may be used in other children with clinical phenotype and the same SNP on whole genome sequencing to confer selectivity for downregulation of the mutant allele. 

2:35 pm

The Emergence of High-Performance Blood Biomarkers to Transform Clinical Diagnosis in Alzheimer’s Disease: Lessons from the PrecivityAD2 Blood Test

Joel Braunstein, MD, Co-Founder & CEO, C2N Diagnostics

The PrecivityAD2™ blood test is a breakthrough in Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, offering high concordance with amyloid PET scan and CSF biomarkers to identify brain amyloid pathology. This test leverages high-resolution mass spectrometry and multiple proteomic analysis to facilitate an early and accurate diagnosis for patients with cognitive impairment. The discussion will revolve around how the PrecivityAD2 test and other emerging molecular tools are redefining clinical care pathways in neurological medicine.

3:05 pm

Antibody Discovery in Encephalitis and Multiple Sclerosis

Michael Wilson, MD, Professor, Neurology, University of California, San Francisco

There has been a surge in the recognition of many new central nervous system inflammatory disorders over the past 20 years. Oftentimes these diseases are defined by autoantibodies targeting specific neural antigens. Identifying these autoantibodies not only has accelerated the speed with which neurologists diagnose these conditions, but it has also deepened our understanding of the underlying immunology of these conditions and informed precision-based therapeutics that can be lifesaving.

3:35 pmDessert Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing

PLENARY KEYNOTE SESSION: TECH TRENDS IN PRECISION MEDICINE

4:05 pm PANEL DISCUSSION:

Tech Trends in Precision Medicine

PANEL MODERATOR:

Jonathan D. Grinstein, PhD, North America Editor, Inside Precision Medicine

Leading technology companies will discuss future trends, needs, and solutions needed to drive precision medicine forward, including innovation in genomics and diagnostics, artificial intelligence and digital tech, multiomic analysis, biomarkers, and clinical trials.

PANELISTS:

Aaron Sin, Senior Director Research & Technology Development, Diagnostics & Regulated Materials, MilliporeSigma

Damon Hostin, Head, Global Market Access, Illumina, Inc.

Shawn Fahl, VP Lab Operations, Cell Services & R&D, Biospecimens, Discovery Life Sciences

Shawn Carlson, Vice President, Head of Market Access, Roche Diagnostics

Suzanne Belinson, PhD, Vice President, Commercial Markets, Tempus AI

4:45 pmClose of Day

Thursday, March 13

8:00 amRegistration and Morning Coffee

PRECISION MEDICINE IN OBESITY: PERSONALIZING GLP-1 THERAPIES

8:30 am

Chairperson's Remarks

Nicholas Gossen, Chief Commercial Officer, Dandelion Health

8:35 am

AI Revolutionizing Precision Medicine: Unlocking GLP-1’s Potential for Personalized Care

Nicholas Gossen, Chief Commercial Officer, Dandelion Health

Precision medicine is opening new frontiers across multiple disciplines of medicine, but the opportunity to personalize patient care using GLP-1s may represent one of the greatest opportunities. However, unlocking these opportunities will take an AI revolution. This presentation will explore how validated AI and real-world, unstructured data could pave the way for precision medicine with GLP-1 therapies.

9:05 am

The MyPhenome Test – A Commercial Precision Medicine Test for Obesity

Mark Bagnall, CEO, Phenomix Sciences

Obesity is a heterogeneous and multifactorial disease that affects over 1 billion people worldwide. Because of the heterogeneity of the disease, patients respond differently to anti-obesity interventions, including the new GLP-1 drugs. To better identify responders, Phenomix Sciences launched the MyPhenome test, a genetic test that identifies three phenotypes of the disease related to intervention response. The clinical demonstration of phenotypes and intervention response will be discussed at the session.

9:35 am

Precision Medicine Meets GLP-1: Personalized Care for Obesity and Diabetes

Avantika Waring, MD, CMO, 9amHealth

GLP-1 receptor agonists have emerged as highly effective treatments for obesity and diabetes, yet clinical response varies significantly. This presentation explores recent findings on predictors of GLP-1 efficacy, including genetic, metabolic, environmental, and behavioral indicators that correlate with successful weight loss and long-term maintenance, and glycemic control. This discussion will also evaluate several therapeutic options for obesity and diabetes using a precision medicine approach.

10:05 amSession Break

10:35 amNetworking Coffee Break

PRECISION MEDICINE IN IMMUNOLOGY

10:55 am

Chairperson's Remarks

Marc Levesque, PhD, Vice President, Immunology Discovery, Merck & Co.

11:00 am

Precision Medicine for Immune-Mediated Diseases: Past Achievements and Future Prospects

Marc Levesque, PhD, Vice President, Immunology Discovery, Merck & Co.

Precision medicine approaches to autoimmune, autoinflammatory and atopic diseases have been slow to impact patients; unmet need remains high in these diseases. The advent of targeted therapies and OMICs techniques has highlighted the need to target drugs to appropriate patient subsets. This presentation will examine past and current approaches to predicting drug responses and the future use of genetic and diseased tissue OMICs to predict treatment responses to immune-mediated diseases.

11:30 am

AI-Driven Precision Medicine in Autoimmune Disorders

Luka Jelcic, Project Leader, DeciBio Consulting

This presentation will explore the role of artificial intelligence in autoimmune disease management and the latest research conducted until this date. Key points include AI applications in early diagnosis, preclinical case prediction, patient management, and AI-driven personalized treatment strategies and drug discovery

12:00 pm

Prognostic and Predictive Biomarkers for Precision Medicine in IBD

Andres Hurtado-Lorenzo, PhD, Senior Vice President, Translational Research & IBD Ventures, Crohns & Colitis Foundation

This presentation showcases the integration of multiomics and machine learning for the discovery of prognostic and predictive biomarkers in Crohn's disease. Using state-of-the-art proteomics and transcriptomics, novel biomarkers were identified to detect, at disease diagnosis, patients at high risk of developing fibrotic and fistulizing complications, as well as predict response to anti-TNF therapy. These biomarkers have the potential to enable precision medicine approaches for improved Crohn's disease management and patient outcomes.

12:30 pmClose of Conference






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