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Real Time Conference Coverage: Advancing Precision Medicine Conference, Philadelphia, October 3–4, 2025 – DELIVERABLES

Conference Press Coverage and Scientific Reporting

Reporter: Stephen J. Williams, PhD

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intellegence will be covering this conference

LIVE over X.com at

@pharma_BI

@StephenJWillia2

@AVIVA1950

@AdvancingPM

using the following meeting hashtags:

@AdvancingPM  #WINSYMPO2025

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Real Time Conference Coverage: Advancing Precision Medicine Conference, Afternoon Session, October 4 2025

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Real Time Conference Coverage: Advancing Precision Medicine Conference, Afternoon Session  October 4 2025

Reporter: Stephen J. Williams, PhD

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intellegence will be covering this conference LIVE over X.com at

@pharma_BI

@StephenJWillia2

@AVIVA1950

@AdvancingPM

using the following meeting hashtags

#AdvancingPM #precisionmedicine #WINSYMPO2025

1:40 – 2:30

AI in Precision Medicine

Dr. Ganhui Lan
Dr. Xiaoyan Wang
Dr. Ahmad P. Tafti
Jen Gilburg

Jen Gilburg (moderator)Deputy Secretary of Technology and Entrepreneurship, Dept. of Community and Economic Development, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

  • AI will help reduce time for drug development especially in early phase of discovery but eventually help in all phases
  • Ganhui: for drug regulators might be more amenable to AI in clinical trials; AI may be used differently by clinicians
  • nonprofit in Philadelphia using AI to repurpose drugs (this site has posted on this and article will be included here)
  • Ganhui: top challenge of AI in Pharma; rapid evolution of AI and have to have core understanding of your needs and dependencies; realistic view of what can be done; AI has to have iterative learning; also huge vertical challenge meaning how can we allign the use of AI through the healthcare vertical layer chain like clinicians, payers, etc.
  • Ganhui sees a challenge for health companies to understand how to use AI in business to technology; AI in AI companies is different need than AI in healthcare companies
  • 95% of AI projects not successful because most projects are very discrete use

2:00-2:20

Building Precision Oncology Infrastructure in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Razelle Kurzrock, MD

Sewanti Limaye, MD, Director, Medical & Precision Oncology; Director Clinical and Translational Oncology Research, Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai, India; Founder, Nova Precision AI; Co-Founder, Iylon Precision Oncology; Co-Chair, Asia Pacific Coalition Against Lung Cancer; Co-Chair,  Asia Pacific Immuno-Oncology; Member,  WIN Consortium

  • globally 60 precision initiatives but there really are because many in small countries
  • three out of five individuals in India die of cancer
  • precision medicine is a must and a hub and spoke model is needed in these places; Italy does this hub and spoke; spokes you enable the small places and bring them into the network so they know how and have access to precision medicine
  • in low income countries the challenge starts with biopsy: then diagnosis and biomarker is issue; then treatment decision a problem as they may not have access to molecular tumor boards
  • prevention is always a difficult task in LMICs (low income)
  • you have ten times more patients in India than in US (triage can be insurmountable)
  • ICGA Foundation: Indian Cancer Genome Atlas
  • in India mutational frequencies vary with geographical borders like EGFR mutations or KRAS mutations
  • genomic landscape of ovarian cancer in India totally different than in TCGA data
  • even different pathways are altered in ovarian cancer seen in North America than in India
  • MAY mean that biomarker panels need to be adjusted based on countries used in
  • the molecular data has to be curated for the India cases to be submitted to a tumor board
  • twenty diagnostic tests in market like TruCheck for Indian market; uses liquid biopsy
  • they are also tailoring diagnostic and treatment for India getting FDA fast track approvals

2:20-2:40

Co-targeting KIT/PDGRFA and Genomic Integrity in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors

Razelle Kurzrock, MD

Lori Rink, PhD, Associate ProfessorFox Chase Cancer Center

  • GIST are most common nesychymal tumor in GI tract
  • used to be misdiagnosed; was considered a leimyosarcoma
  • very asymptomatic tumors and not good prognosis
  • very refractory to genotoxic therapies
  • RTK KIT/PDGFRA gain of function mutations
  • Gleevec imatinib for unresectable GIST however vast majority of even responders become resistant to therapy and cancer returns
  • there is a mutation map for hotspot mutations and sensitivity for gleevec
  • however resistance emerged to ripretinib; in ATP binding pocket
  • over treatment get a polyclonal resistance
  • performed a kinome analysis; Wee1 looked like a potential target
  • mouse studies (80 day) showed good efficacy
  • avapiritinib ahs some neurotox and used in PDGFRA mut GIST model which is resistant to imitinib
  • but if use Wee1 inhibitor with TKI can lower dose of avapiritinib
  • cotargeting KIT/PDGFRA and WEE1 increases replicative stress
  • they are using PDX models to test these combinations
  • combination creates genomic instability

 

Real Time Conference Coverage: Advancing Precision Medicine Conference, Late Morning Session Track 1 October 4 2025

Reporter: Stephen J. Williams, PhD

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intellegence will be covering this conference LIVE over X.com at

@pharma_BI

@StephenJWillia2

@AVIVA1950

@AdvancingPM

using the following meeting hashtags

#AdvancingPM #precisionmedicine #WINSYMPO2025

SESSION 3

Advances in Precision Oncology:
From Genomics to Targeted Therapies

11:10-11:55

Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Targeting KRAS in Pancreatic Cancer

Razelle Kurzrock, MD
Razelle Kurzrock, MD

11:55-12:15

Charting the Future of Cancer Care: Precision Oncology and the Power of Genomics

Razelle Kurzrock, MD

12:15-12:35

Molecular Pathology as a Driver of Precision in Urological Cancers

Razelle Kurzrock, MD

12:30-12:40

Non – CME – dSTRIDE™-HR: A Functional Biomarker for In Situ, ‘real-time’ Detection and Quantification of Homologous Recombination Activity.

Magda Kordon-Kiszala, PhD

Magda Kordon-Kiszala, PhDCEO and co-founder, intoDNA

12:35-12:55

Epigenetic Plasticity and Tumor Evolution: Mechanisms of Resistance in Precision Oncology

Johnathan R. Whetstine, PhD

Johnathan R. Whetstine, PhDDirector, Cancer Epigenetics Institute, Director, Geonomics Resource, Fox Chase Cancer Center

  • Title: Epigenetic plasticity a gatekeeper to generating extrachromosomal DNA amplification and rearrangements
  • genetic events in cancer are actually controlled not random as he says
  • Fox Chase Cancer Center Epigenetics Institute; 5th year goal to understand epigenetic mechanisms to understand resistance and biomarker development; bring others and break down silos;  they are expanding and hiring and bringing into a network; March 5 2026 5th Annual Symposium Philadelphia Franklin Institute
  • DNA amplification is also chromosomal: integrated same locus or different regions or chromosomal duplication
  • KDM4A epigenetic demethylase controls transiet site specific DNA re-replication; can have focal control of DNA regions
  • you can control regional control of like EGFR amplification
  • can use Cy3 to find local regions
  • KDM3B inhibitor promotes transiet copy gains in KMT2A/MLL
  • EHMT2 is lysine demethylase is a driver of this copy amplification
  • this demethylase can change expression locally in one hour.. very fast
  • demethylases are very specific for their gene locus they control and so this demethylase only controls MLL gene
  • doxorubicin topoisomerase inhibitor can cause LOH in MLL locus and methylase inhibitor can reverse this
  • over twenty combinatorial regulators so this field is just budding

11:30-12:30

Companion Diagnostics in Hereditary and Chronic Diseases – Development, Regulatory Approval, and Commercialization – Non-CME Discussion

Huw Ricketts

Huw Ricketts PhDSenior Director, CLIA Business Development, QIAGEN

Tricia Carrigan

Tricia Carrigan, PhDBC Biosolutions

Arushi Agarwal

Arushi Agarwal, MS,  Partner, Health Advances

Melissa Reuter

Melissa Reuter, MS, MBADirector, Precision Medicine Program Strategy, GSK

  • This is a session panel Discussion on the current state of companion diagnostic development, not just in oncology.  Regulatory aspects will be discussed
  • Arushi: There are alot of opportunities in non-oncology areas for companion diagnostics, and time to development may be an obstacle
  • Huw Rickets:  From a development standpoint most people are not looking at the diagnostic side but more on the therapeutic side.
  • Tricia:  There needs to be a shift in oncology drug development world, and pharma sees developing diagnostic is too expensive.
  • Meliisa: They try to engage early with the agencies to understand the regulatory landscape; GSK is very strong in their oncology platform but there are gaps in diagnostics and non-oncology programs
  • Arushi: seems in Pharma oncology and non-oncology programs seems siloed
  • for non-oncology many of the biomarkers may be rare… well under 25% of population
  • Huw: Qiagen trying to develop diagnostics for Parkinson’s but those rare genetic diseases are easier to develop
  • Arushi: neurodegenerative, NASH, and immuno diseases are big areas where companies are looking to make companion diagnostics
  • Huw: kidney  disease is a big focus to develop companion diagnostics for

 

12:30-12:40

Non – CME – dSTRIDE™-HR: A Functional Biomarker for In Situ, ‘real-time’ Detection and Quantification of Homologous Recombination Activity.

Magda Kordon-Kiszala, PhD

Magda Kordon-Kiszala, PhDCEO and co-founder, intoDNA

WMIF25 – World Medical Innovation Forum, Sept. 15-17, 2025, Boston

Clinical experts, industry, investment leaders

https://2025.worldmedicalinnovation.org/

 

I, Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN had covered the WMIF Conference since it was launched 11 years ago, including WMIF24.

 

#WMIF19 was a special conference with the focus on AI in Medicine

The #WMIF19 Influencers via ‘s  Hashtags http://bit.ly/WMIF19 – By Mentions and By Tweets Ranked #4: @pharma_BI and #2: @AVIVA1950, respectively. Ranked #3 via NodeXL’s Betweenness Centrality http://bit.ly/2KB6cPN

https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/2019/04/13/the-wmif19-influencers-via-symplurs-healthcare-hashtags-http-bit-ly-wmif19-by-mentions-and-by-tweets-ranked-4-pharma_bi-and-2-aviva1950-respectively-ranked-3-via-node/

 

9/15/2025 – 9/17/2025 – I did not attended In-person WMIF25.

  • I was invited to cover the event in real time, as follows:

From: “Doyle, Tracy” <tdoyle5@mgb.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Cc: “Yiannacopoulos, John” <john.yiannacopoulos@bofa.com>, “Doyle, Tracy” <tdoyle5@mgb.org>
Subject: Media Invite: World Medical Innovation Forum, Sept. 15-17, Boston — Clinical experts, industry, investment leaders

Media Invite: World Medical Innovation Forum: Monday, Sept. 15 — Wednesday, Sept. 17, Boston – Innovation at Scale

 

VIDEOS from this Conference on Youtube.com

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=WMIF

 

Selected Speakers:

Peter Arduini

CEO, GE HealthCare

 

Eliav Barr, MD

 

SVP, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Global Clinical Development, Merck

Meredith Fisher, PhD

 

Partner, Mass General Brigham Ventures

Jean-François Formela, MD

 

Partner, Atlas Venture

Adele Gulfo

 

President & CEO, Biopharma Strategies and Insights

Jason Hafler, PhD

 

Managing Director, Sanofi Ventures

Rajiv Kaul

 

Portfolio Manager, Fidelity Investments

Paul LaViolette

 

Managing Partner, SV Health Investors

David Liu, PhD

 

Richard Merkin Professor; Director, Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute

Paul Matsen

 

Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Cleveland Clinic

Michael Mihm, PhD

 

Asset Lead, Astellas Pharma

Bernd Montag, PhD

 

CEO, Siemens Healthineers

Michael Quigley, PhD

 

Chief Scientific Officer, Global Head of Research, Sanofi

John Reed, MD, PhD

 

Executive Vice President, Innovation Medicine, R&D, Johnson & Johnson

David Reese, MD

 

EVP & Chief Technology Officer, Amgen

David Rhew, MD

 

Global Chief Medical Officer & VP Healthcare, Microsoft

Jay Rughani

 

Investing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Gaurav Singal, MD

 

Independent advisor and investor

Ariel Stern, PhD

 

Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Hasso Plattner Institute

Ricky Sun, PhD

 

Partner, Bain Capital

Andrew Trister, MD, PhD

 

Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Verily [Google]

Christopher Viehbacher

 

CEO, Biogen

Erin Xie, PhD

 

Managing Director, BlackRock

 

1:1 firesides and panels with top experts including:

Amy Abernethy MD, PhD, Cofounder, Highlander Health

Peter Arduini, CEO, GE HealthCare

Jeffrey Balser MD, PhD, CEO, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Eliav Barr MD, Chief Medical Officer, Merck

Tom Frohlich, CEO, Jade Biosciences

David Hyman MD, Chief Medical Officer, Eli Lilly

Rajiv Kaul, Portfolio Manager, Fidelity

Anne Klibanski MD, CEO, Mass General Brigham

Robert Langer ScD, Institute Professor, MIT

Anu Madgavkar, Partner, McKinsey Global Institute

Kevin Mahoney, CEO, UPenn Health System

Paul Matsen, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Cleveland Clinic

Bernd Montag PhD, CEO, Siemens Healthineers

Dinesh Patel, PhD, CEO, Protagonist Therapeutics

Xiayang Qiu, PhD, CEO, Regor Therapeutics

Mike Quigley, CSO, Sanofi

David Rhew, Global Chief Medical Officer & VP Healthcare, Microsoft

Ken Song, MD, CEO, Candid Therapeutics

David Sontag PhD, CEO, Layer Health

Chris Viehbacher, CEO, Biogen

 

Government and regulatory experts including:

Larry Bucshon MD, Senior Policy Advisor, Holland & Knight; Former U.S. Representative (Indiana, 2011–2025)

Robert Califf MD, Instructor in Medicine, Duke University; Former Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Susan Collins, Senior U.S. Senator from Maine

Maura Healey, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Susan Monarez PhD, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

Deep-Dive KOL and Focused Sessions including:

  • Emerging Treatments: Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, Obesity & Metabolic Diseases
  • AI at the Bedside — Physician Co-Pilots
  • Upending the U.S. Care Model
  • Antimicrobial Resistance – An Urgent, Global Crisis
  • The Silver Tsunami – Unprecedented and Unceasing
  • Institutional Investor Perspectives
  • Innovations in Disability Technology
  • Consumerism in Healthcare
  • Tackling High-Priority Health Challenges in Under-Served Communities
  • Sleep – the Future of a Busy Market
  • Gene Editing – Precision Medicine in Practice
  • Hospital Venture Investing

 

Leading biotech and venture execs from companies such as:

  • Andreessen Horowitz
  • ArrePath
  • Bain Capital Life Sciences
  • Caris Life Sciences
  • Enable Ventures
  • Fidelity Investments
  • Intellia Therapeutics
  • Layer Health
  • Lightspeed Venture Capital
  • Novo Holdings Venture Investments
  • Viz.ai

Exclusive programming:  

  • First Look – 19 rapid-fire presentations on the latest research from leading Mass General Brigham scientists
  • Big Ideas – 100+ key opinion leaders in healthcare weigh in on solving the top un-met clinical needs in medicine today
  • Emerging Tech Zone – Hands-on exploration of some of the latest digital and AI-based healthcare technologies

 

 

Real Time Conference Coverage: Advancing Precision Medicine Conference, Afternoon Session Track 1 October 3 2025

Reporter: Stephen J. Williams, PhD

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intellegence will be covering this conference LIVE over X.com at

@pharma_BI

@StephenJWillia2

@AVIVA1950

@AdvancingPM

using the following meeting hashtags

#AdvancingPM #precisionmedicine #WINSYMPO2025

1:00 – 1:50

Lunch & Exhibits

TRACK 1  204BC

TRACK 2  204A

WIN SYMPOSIUM

MULTI-OMICS

1:50-4:05

SESSION 4

From Targets to Trials:
Translating Discovery into Impact

1:50-2:10

Beyond Checkpoint Inhibitors: Targeted Immunotherapeutic Approaches for the Management of Solid Tumors

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

2:10-2:30

Implementing Molecular Profiling in Early Phase Clinical Trials: Precision from Bench to Bedside

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

2:30-2:40

Q&A

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez
Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

2:40-3:20

Non- CME Session: Venture Philanthropy

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Eric Heil, MBAManaging PartnerMedical Excellence Capital

John Lehr, President & CEO, Parkinson's Foundation

John LehrPresident & CEOParkinson’s Foundation

Dr. Blaine Robinson

Dr. Blaine Robinson, PhDVice President of the Therapy Acceleration Program (TAP)Blood Cancer United

3:20-4:10

eNSCLC Testing

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

4:10 – 4:25

Break and Exhibits

TRACK 1  204BC

TRACK 2  204A

WIN SYMPOSIUM

MULTI-OMICS

4:25-6:45

4:25-5:15

Transforming Pediatric Oncology: The Power of Precision Medicine

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Giselle L. Sholler, MD, Division Chief, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/BMT, Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital; Professor, Pediatrics and Pharmacology; Founder & Chair, Beat Childhood Cancer Consortium

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Wei Zhang, PhD, Hanes and Willis Family Professor in Cancer; Director, Cancer Genomics and Precision Oncology, Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Elias Sayour, MD, PhD, Professor, Neurosurgery and Pediatrics;  Assistant Dean,  Clinical Research, UF College of Medicine, Program Co-leader,  UF Health Cancer Center Immuno-Oncology and Microbiome (IOM) Program

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Milan Radovich, PhDSenior Vice President, Chief Scientific OfficerCaris Life Sciences

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Pei Wang, PhDProfessor, Genetic and Genomic SciencesIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Abigail Moore

5:15-5:25

Informing therapy decisions for improved patient care

Ashley Varghese, PharmD, RPh

5:25-5:50

Liquid Biopsies and Resistance Monitoring in Targeted Therapies 

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Pashtoon Kasi, MD, MS, Medical Director, GI Medical Oncology, City of Hope

5:50-6:10

Liquid Biopsies in Clinical Practice: Transforming Precision Oncology Through Molecular Monitoring

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Hatim Husain, MD, Associate ProfessorUniversity of California, San Diego 

Real Time Conference Coverage: Advancing Precision Medicine Conference, MidMorning Session Track 1 October 3 2025

Reporter: Stephen J. Williams, PhD

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intellegence will be covering this conference LIVE over X.com at

@pharma_BI

@StephenJWillia2

@AVIVA1950

@AdvancingPM

using the following meeting hashtags

#AdvancingPM #precisionmedicine #WINSYMPO2025

0:40 – 11:10

Break and Exhibits

TRACK 1  204BC

TRACK 2  204A

WIN SYMPOSIUM

MULTI-OMICS

11:10 – 1:10

SESSION 2

The Evolution of Precision Oncology:

Integrating MRD, AI, and Beyond

11:10-12:00

Precision Cancer Consortium

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez
Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Shruti Mathur, MSPharma Diagnostic Strategy Leader, Global Product Strategy (GPS), Genentech

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Daryl Pritchard, PhD, Interim President, Personalized Medicine Coalition

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Keith T. Flaherty, MD, FAACR, Director of Clinical Research, Massachusetts General Cancer CenterProfessor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
President-Elect: 2025-2026, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 

SESSION 3

The Shifting Landscape:

Tumor Plasticity and Resistance

12:00-12:20

Mathematical and Evolutionary Modeling in Precision Radiation Oncology

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Jacob Scott, MD, DPhil, Professor and Staff Physician-Scientist, CWRU School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic

12:20-12:40

Plasticity and Persistence: The Role of EMT in Cancer Progression and Therapy Resistance

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Sendurai A. Mani, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University; Associate Director of Translational Oncology, Brown University Legorreta Cancer Center

12:40-1:00

Targeting Molecularly Defined Subsets: Challenges in Translational Oncology

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Benedito A. Carneiro, MD, MS, Director, Clinical Research
Director, Cancer Drug Development; Associate Director, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Legorreta Cancer Center, Brown University Health

Real Time Conference Coverage: Advancing Precision Medicine Conference, Early Morning Session Track 1 October 4 2025

Reporter: Stephen J. Williams, PhD

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intellegence will be covering this conference LIVE over X.com at

@pharma_BI

@StephenJWillia2

@AVIVA1950

@AdvancingPM

using the following meeting hashtags

#AdvancingPM #precisionmedicine #WINSYMPO2025

 

8:55 – 10:35

SESSION 1

Precision For All:

Global Access, Real Cases, and Implementation Science

 

8:55-9:15

Results and Future Direction from WIN’s Data Science Paper

Razelle Kurzrock, MD

9:15-9:55

When Precision Gets Personal: WIN Consortium International Molecular Tumor Board Live

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez
Razelle Kurzrock, MD

Razelle Kurzrock, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Officer, WIN Consortium; Professor of Medicine, Associate Director, Clinical Research, Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Endowed Chair of Precision Oncology, MCW Cancer Center and Linda T. & John A. Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine

Notes from Live Tumor Board from Live Tweets

Tumor board Live… Molecular profiling great for identifying synthetic lethal combinations work very well… Many oncologist not accepting recommendations of molec tumor board

Tumor board Live . Oncologists don’t always accept tumor board recommendations based on molecular profiling… Dr Baptiste at first felt constrained to use single agent but WINTER combo trial with molec profiling better

Tumor board Live… Oncologist may give pushback when molecular therapeutic targets identified.. like when methylomics give a result and tumor board suggest temazolamide

Tumor board Live… Oncologist may give pushback when molecular therapeutic targets identified.. like when methylomics give a result and tumor board suggest temazolamide

Tumor board Live… Oncologist may give pushback when molecular therapeutic targets identified.. like when methylomics give a result and tumor board suggest temazolamide

Pemetrexemed not always working but MTAP inhibitions may work

Tumor board Live… Discussion of ovarian cancer case women first presented with CRC BRCA mut but failed PARP inhibitor board is looking at immunotherapy NGS IHC performed

#WINconsortium

Fusions being detected by RNAseq at rate of 100 per month

Tumor board Live…. Theranostics are becoming part of molec tumor board … Radio labeled dual diagnostic therapeutic antibodies

Tumor board Live… Molecular profiling great for identifying synthetic lethal combinations work very well… Many oncologist not accepting recommendations of molec tumor board

SESSION 2

Expanding the Precision Frontier

9:55-10:25

Precision Oncology in the Immunotherapy Era: Biomarkers and Clinical Trial Innovation

Razelle Kurzrock, MD

Lillian Siu, MD, President, AACR 2025-2026; Director, Phase I Clinical Trials Program; Co-Director, Robert and Maggie Bras and Family Drug Development Program Clinical Lead, Tumor Immunotherapy Program; BMO Chair, Precision Cancer Genomics, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

  • Princess Margaret CC went to Merck got pembrolizumab from them but built a team platform of clinicians and scientists to work on INSPIRE trial
  • $11 million of grants, 13 major papers, great team science
  • did ctDNA from liquid biopsy and also looked at methylation patterns in cfDNA
  • looked at IFN stimulation and outcome to pembrolizumab
  • retro transposable elements found in INSPIRE program, maybe a predictor of immune sensitivity
  • they were able to correlate some of their findings with spatial omics
  • using spatial data they could look at hot versus cold head and neck cancer
  •  factors for response to immunotherapy: TMB, t cell infiltrate,  PDL1 etc
  • using AI with IHC slides as well as NGS data sets
  • as clinical trials become multiomics and AI with multiomics platforms data sharing will be critical for success

10:25 – 10:35

The Microbiome and Its Role in Cancer Development and Treatment Response

Razelle Kurzrock, MD

Sabine Hazan, MD, CEO, Ventura Clinical Trials; CEO, Progenabiome

  • microbiome research at the infancy so we don’t know much when comes to oncology
  • we need to compare microbiome between persons using NGS and other omics
  • we all have different microbiome even though microbiome ‘healthy’
  • lots of factors affect microbiome including surgery
  • families are similar in their microbiome but when looking at Alzheimers there are differences
  • first lab to find whole COVID in the stools
  • virus was different in different people, difference spike proteins. Virus mutates from lung to stool (gut)
  • in intrafamily patients had different microbiome upon COVID infection
  • bifodobacteria was found as a major part of microbiome altered in COVID but also lots of other diseases
  • lots of examples of host microbial symbiosis
  • they had an instance with throat tumor treated with microbiome and tumor receded without chemo
  • in a glioblastoma microbiome adjustment helped but changed positive response to immunotherapy

Real Time Conference Coverage: Advancing Precision Medicine Conference, Afternoon Omics Session Track 2 October 3 2025

Reporter: Stephen J. Williams, PhD

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intellegence will be covering this conference LIVE over X.com at

@pharma_BI

@StephenJWillia2

@AVIVA1950

@AdvancingPM

using the following meeting hashtags

#AdvancingPM #precisionmedicine #WINSYMPO2025

4:20-4:40

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

 

  • APOE was marker for defining a long term survivor and short term survivor for ovarian cancer patients; the markers were in the stroma
  • there is spatial communication between tumor and underlying stroma
  • it is imperative to understand how your multiomics equipment images a tumor area before it laser captures and send to the MS system; can lose a lot of tissue and information based on differences in resolution
  • many of these multiomics systems are validated for the clinic in EU not US
  • multiomics spatial analysis allows you to image protein, metabolite, mRNA expression in the 3 dimensional environment of the tumor (tumor cells and stroma)
  • they are making a human tumor atlas
  • they say a patient who had tumor went home during COVID and took vaccine but got ill with vaccine; but came back to check tumor and tumor had greatly regressed because prevaccine the tumor was immunologically cold and post COVID vaccine any left over tumor showed great infiltration of immune cells

4:40-4:55

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Aruna Ayer, PhDVP, Multiomics, Innovation and Scientific AffairsBD Biosciences

  • BD Bioscience multiomics platform is modular and can add more omics levels in the platorm
  • for example someone wanted to look at T cells
  • people have added CRISPR screens on the omics platform
  • most people are using single cell spatial omics
  • they have a FACS on their platform too so you can look at single cell spatial omics and sort different cellular populations
  • very comparative to 10X Genomics platform
  • their proteomics is another layer you can add on their platform however with proteomics you can high background notice with spatial proteomics or a limited panel of biomarkers
  • Their OMICS Protein One panels are optimized for biology and tumor type.
  • get high quality multiomics data and proteomics data but in a 3D spatial format
  • developed Cellismo Data Visualization software tool

4:55-5:10

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Harsha Gowda, PhDSenior Principal Scientist, Director, Research & Lab Operations, Signios Bio

Signios Biosciences (Signios Bio) is the US-based arm of MedGenome, a global leader in genetic testing services, genomics research, and drug discovery solutions.

Signios Bio is a multiomics and bioinformatics company dedicated to revealing the intricate signals within biological data. We leverage the power of multiomics—integrating data from genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epigenomics, metabolomics, and microbiomics—to gain a comprehensive understanding of disease biology. Our AI-powered bioinformatics platform allows us to efficiently analyze these complex datasets, uncovering hidden patterns and accelerating the development of new therapies and diagnostics.

Through the integration of cutting-edge multiomics technologies, advanced bioinformatics, and the expertise of world-class scientists, we enable researchers and clinicians with comprehensive, end-to-end solutions to improve drug discovery and development and advance precision medicine.

As part of MedGenome, we have access to real-world evidence (RWE) from global research networks across the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, and Latin America. This access enables us to work with our partners to uncover insights that can lead to new biomarkers and drug targets, ensuring that precision medicine is inclusive and effective for all.

https://www.signiosbiolcom 

  • their platform can do high throughput analysis of patient tumors (like gallbladder cancer) analyzing mutational spectrum with high dimensionality
  • they can integrate genomic and transcriptomics data to reveal multiple pathways affected in patient data
  • have used their platform to investigate spatial omics in lung cancer

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1:50-4:05

SESSION 4

From Targets to Trials:
Translating Discovery into Impact

1:50-2:10

Beyond Checkpoint Inhibitors: Targeted Immunotherapeutic Approaches for the Management of Solid Tumors

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez
  • we need to turn these immuno-cold tumors into immuno ‘hot’ tumors so immunotherapy will be effective and recognize them
  • however each immunotherapies have their own toxicities
  • immunocheck points inhibitors: 50% of patients get very rough adverse events and have to stop therapy and give immunosuppressives
  • 60 yo female with urothelial carcinoma with chemo induced rash given pembrolizumab but got worse rash… had Steven Johnson Syndrome… fatal outcome from one cycle of PD-L1 inhibitor
  • so now we are giving these immune checkpoints earlier before even surgery… the overall survival better but there are certain personalized toxicities
  • up to 35% patients with cancer have chronic immuno related adverse events and dose limiting toxicities
  • 50% have low grade multiple toxicities (and they treat these AEs with steroids)
  • we have no biomarkers for these PD/PDL1 inhibitor adverse events

 

2:10-2:30

Implementing Molecular Profiling in Early Phase Clinical Trials: Precision from Bench to Bedside

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez
  • power of biomarkers: BRCA2 null women with ovarian cancer success with olaparib even though at time was not approved except the biomarker known
  • every week they discuss with internal tumor board and consult with Foundation Medicine; however a mutational panel is great but need to understand the underlying effect on tumor biology
  • there are a handful of tumor agnostic targeted agents: based on biomarkers
  • she thinks digital twins will be helpful in determining cohort selection for clinical trails
  • she would like multiomics to be performed on every patient but how would this be done, especially in the ecosystem of the USA
  • from attendee question to speaker panel (from Indai): they have been running tmolecular boards but problem is when new targets or fusion proteins become known without a priori knowledge of them and no combination know what to do?

 

:30-2:40

Q&A

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez
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2:40-3:20

Non- CME Session: Venture Philanthropy

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Eric Heil, MBAManaging PartnerMedical Excellence Capital

  • started a venture fund and then a 501(c) to give small grants
  • in venture philanthropy it is not traditional grant writing but more of a personal relationship; he says find other companies they have backed and ask them
  • all about networking
  • looked at 1400 deals but only invested in 13
  • back years ago his company biotech got ten million after 2009 from TAP but now it seems smaller bridge money
John Lehr, President & CEO, Parkinson's Foundation

John LehrPresident & CEOParkinson’s Foundation

  • runs venture philanthropy which is more like a mix of venture fund and granting agency
  • most run a for profit venture but mix model with 501c to fund small grants
Dr. Blaine Robinson

Dr. Blaine Robinson, PhDVice President of the Therapy Acceleration Program (TAP)Blood Cancer United

  • runs Blood Cancer United that offers grants for blood based research
  • they run three pillars: venture biotech funding, clinical trial funding, and academic research but most they take equity in biotechs
  • so venture philanthropy is more of equity investing and using those funds to fund younger companies like bridge between first round and series C
  • Blood Cancer United looking for million and above investment “first in class’; was early with Kite and UPenn (where are they now… are they still with them?)

3:20-4:10

eNSCLC Testing

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez
  • lung cancer has seemed to be ahead with respect to biomarkers and precision therapies
  • at least with NCCN guidelines they are up to 14 therapeutic biomarkers not diagnostic biomarkers so very ahead on the clinical decision making on actionable mutations for lung cancer
  • so most of the testing is genomic mutational spectrum for oncogenic drivers
  • there are three protein based biomarkers: Met, PDL1,
  • FISH is still used for some fusions
  • NGS is more sensitive test but takes 2-4 weeks
  • the number of  detected EGFR variants are increasing so it is affecting the drug specificity
  • recently NRG1 fusions have been approved as a heregulin HER3 biomarker;
  • 15% which were detected as negative for fusions the patients actually responded because fusions were hard to detect; many false positives
  • 76% did not meet MET eligbility but only 13% were high enough for MET marker but was enough for FDA approval
  • some drugs beneficial for mutated version and some good for over expressed like MET or HER2 but where the mutation or exon skipping is important for therapy choice
  • we need better biobanking because we need more tissue; we loose more tissue during sectioning and not splitting blocks into two (one for diagnostic one for therapeutic)
  • liquid biopsy will find some mutations but other ones not very sensitivity in liquid biopsy like MET mutations (mutations may be assay specific)
  • some muts in bone marrow may just be in aging progenitor cells and sometimes in oncogene like BRAF but not cancer but dlonal homatopoesis (increased risk for myeloproliferative diseases but not solid tumors like melanoma)
  • clonal homatopoesis actually common so watch out when just relying on liquid biopsy

 

 

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Agenda Track 1: WIN Symposium

8:40 – 9:00

Welcome and Introduction

William G Kaelin, Jr, MD

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William G Kaelin, Jr, MD

Nigel RussellFounder and CEOAdvancing Precision Medicine

William G Kaelin, Jr, MD

Christopher P. MolineauxPresident & Chief Executive OfficerLife Science Pennsylvania

Life Sciences Pennsylvania (LSPA) is the statewide trade association for the commonwealth’s life sciences industry. Founded in 1989, LSPA works to ensure Pennsylvania has a business and public policy climate that makes the commonwealth the most attractive location to open and operate a life sciences company. Our membership is comprised of organizations statewide, representing the entire ecosystem of the life sciences: research institutions, biotechnology, medical device, diagnostic, pharmaceutical, and investment entities, along with service providers who support the industry. Together, we unify Pennsylvania’s innovators to make the Commonwealth a global life sciences leader.

As president & CEO of Life Sciences Pennsylvania, Christopher Molineaux serves as the chief advocate and spokesman for the life sciences industry that calls Pennsylvania home. Molineaux oversees the strategic direction for the association, assuring Life Sciences Pennsylvania continues to be the catalyst that makes Pennsylvania the top location for life sciences companies.

Molineaux brings to Life Sciences Pennsylvania more than 25 years of experience in the bio-pharmaceutical and health care industries, with front-line experience in developing and executing strategies to navigate a shifting economic and political environment.

9:00-9:40

Keynote Lecture – WIN Consortium

Targeting the Achilles’ Heel of Cancer: Synthetic Lethality and Hypoxia in Precision Oncology

William Kaelin was born in New York City. He studied chemistry and mathematics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and received his doctor of medicine degree there in 1982. He then did his residency at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2002 he became a professor at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Work

 

Animals need oxygen for the conversion of food into useful energy. The importance of oxygen has been understood for centuries, but how cells adapt to changes in levels of oxygen has long been unknown. William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe, and Gregg Semenza discovered how cells can sense and adapt to changing oxygen availability. During the 1990s they identified a molecular machinery that regulates the activity of genes in response to varying levels of oxygen. The discoveries may lead to new treatments of anemia, cancer and many other diseases.

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From his Nobel award ceremony:

Gregg Semenza and Sir Peter Ratcliffe decided, independently, to find out how the erythropoietin gene can have such an extraordinary ability to react when oxygen levels drop. Semenza discovered an essential DNA element. Ratcliffe was on the same track and they showed that the element is active in all cells. Oxygen sensing thus takes place everywhere in our bodies. Semenza then discovered the critical player that acti- vates our defense genes. It was named HIF. HIF was subjected to an advanced form of control. It is continuously produced, but when oxygen is ample, it disappears. Only when oxygen levels drop, HIF will remain and can mobilise our defense.

William Kaelin studied a different problem, von Hippel- Lindau disease, with inherited increased risk of certain types of cancer. Cancer cells without the gene, VHL, had activated genes normally controlled by HIF. Sir Peter Ratcliffe proved, in a crucial experiment, that VHL is required for HIF to be removed.

But what was the signal to VHL that HIF needs to disappear?
In the early 2000s, Kaelin and Ratcliffe both solved this mystery. The signal was formed by attaching oxygen atoms onto HIF.
Without oxygen, no signal to VHL, HIF is left intact and can activate our defense.

Piece by piece of the puzzle, the Laureates explained a sensitive machinery that compensates when the vital oxygen is not available in exactly the right amount.

Today we know that the machinery affects a vast range of functions.
When oxygen is lacking, oxygen transport is enhanced by generation of new blood vessels and red blood cells. Our cells are also instructed to economize with the oxygen available, by reprogramming their energy metabolism. Oxygen sensing is also involved in many diseases. As a result of the Laureates’ discoveries, intense activities are under way to develop treatments against for example anemia and cancer.

Professors Semenza, Ratcliffe and Kaelin,
Your groundbreaking discoveries have shed light on a beautiful mechanism explaining our ability to sense and react to fluctuating oxygen levels. The system you have clarified is of fundamental importance for all aspects of physiology and for many human diseases. Without it, animal life would not be possible on this planet.

On behalf of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, it is my great privilege to convey to you our warmest congratulations. I now ask you to step forward to receive the Nobel Prize from the hands of His Majesty the King.

TRACK 1  204BC

 

WIN SYMPOSIUM

MULTI-OMICS

9:40 – 10:40

SESSION 1

From Base Pairs To Better Care:

AI and Omics in Precision Oncology

9:40-10:00

Multi-Omic Profiling and Clinical Decision Support in Precision Oncology

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

David Spetzler, PhD, MBA, MS,  President, Caris Life Sciences

10:00-10:20

Integrating Omics and AI for Next-Gen Precision Oncology

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Keith T. Flaherty, MD, FAACR, Director of Clinical Research, Massachusetts General Cancer CenterProfessor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
President-Elect: 2025-2026, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 

10:20-10:40

Real-World Data and AI in Precision Oncology: Making Data Work for Patients – Q&A

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

MODERATOR: Jeff Elton, PhD, Vice Chairman, Founding CEO
ConcertAI

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

PANELISTS: David Spetzler, PhD, MBA, MS, President, Caris Life Sciences

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Keith T. Flaherty, MD, FAACR, Director of Clinical Research, Massachusetts General Cancer CenterProfessor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
President-Elect: 2025-2026, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 

0:40 – 11:10

Break and Exhibits

TRACK 1  204BC

TRACK 2  204A

WIN SYMPOSIUM

MULTI-OMICS

11:10 – 1:10

SESSION 2

The Evolution of Precision Oncology:

Integrating MRD, AI, and Beyond

11:10-12:00

Precision Cancer Consortium

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez
Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Shruti Mathur, MSPharma Diagnostic Strategy Leader, Global Product Strategy (GPS), Genentech

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Daryl Pritchard, PhD, Interim President, Personalized Medicine Coalition

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Keith T. Flaherty, MD, FAACR, Director of Clinical Research, Massachusetts General Cancer CenterProfessor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
President-Elect: 2025-2026, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 

SESSION 3

The Shifting Landscape:

Tumor Plasticity and Resistance

12:00-12:20

Mathematical and Evolutionary Modeling in Precision Radiation Oncology

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Jacob Scott, MD, DPhil, Professor and Staff Physician-Scientist, CWRU School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic

12:20-12:40

Plasticity and Persistence: The Role of EMT in Cancer Progression and Therapy Resistance

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Sendurai A. Mani, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University; Associate Director of Translational Oncology, Brown University Legorreta Cancer Center

12:40-1:00

Targeting Molecularly Defined Subsets: Challenges in Translational Oncology

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Benedito A. Carneiro, MD, MS, Director, Clinical Research
Director, Cancer Drug Development; Associate Director, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Legorreta Cancer Center, Brown University Health