Invited Speakers 

Professor and Chairman,

Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center

​The Chil and Berta Weissmann Chair in Precision Medicine,

B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Chief Scientific Officer of Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait

Lecture title:
TBA

Head, Laboratory of Genetics and Epigenetics of Aging and Longevity at Haifa University, Israel

Lecture title:
Switch theory in practice: a model to decipher the disease complexity

Professor, Stony Brook Univ. Mount Sinai Medical Center, USA

​Lecture title:

Genetic screening of workers: potential benefits and pitfalls.

Dean, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, USA
Lecture title:

Genetic variants in mtDNA encoded microproteins represent novel strategies for precision-based drug discovery for diseases of aging

Head, Cancer Prevention Unit, Centre for Prevention, Detection & Diagnosis,
John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, Queen Mary Univ. of London
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Lecture title:

TBA

Heart Institute, Hadassah Medical Center, Israel

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Lecture title:

TBA

Professor, Director, Stanford Clinical Cancer Genomics,
Stanford Univ., USA
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Lecture title:
Penetrance and clinical management of CDH1 mutation associated hereditary diffuse gastric cancer and lobular breast cancer

Head, Sheba Pancreatic Cancer Center, Israel

Lecture title:
The spectrum of response in HR-deficient pancreatic cancer

Director, Red & Charline McCombs Inst., Evelyn & Sol Rubenstein Distinguished Chair, Cancer Prevention MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Lecture title:

Cancer early detection: where are we heading

Richard Doll Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

​Lecture title:

TBA

Professor of Oncology, President ECP, Limburg Oncological Center, Salvator Hospital, Belgium

Lecture title:
Cancer tissue acquisition in the era of molecular biology

Head - Public Health Genomics, National Heart
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine,
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine,
Monash University

Lecture title:
National pilot study of population DNA screening in Australia

Professor of Medicine & Genetic Medicine, Vice Chair for Basic & Translational Research, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA

Lecture title:
The NCI CAPIT Center for LNP RNA Cancer Immunoprevention

Professor of Preventive Medicine, Catalan Oncology Inst., Spain

Lecture title:
Microbiome and colorectal cancer: potential for personalizing screening

Program in Personalized & Genomic Medicine, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, USA

​Lecture title:

TBA

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Professor of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Patras Univ., Greece

Lecture title:

Genome-guided therapies: If not now, when?

Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC, USA

Lecture title:

MCEDs (multi-cancer early detection tests) like GRAIL/Galleri

Director, Human Genetics Inst, Univ. of California San Francisco, USA
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Lecture title:

Missing Heritability is Context Dependent

Professor of Cancer Prevention, King's College London, UK

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Lecture title:

TBA

VP, Regeneron, Professor, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, USA

Population genomics of the Middle East and South Asia identify novel disease genes for common and rare disorders

Lecture title:
Population genomics of the Middle East and South Asia identify novel disease genes for common and rare disorders

Professor, Cancer Research & Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Huntsman Cancer Centre/Utah Health Univ., USA

Lecture title:

TBA

Anne Potter Wilson Professor of Medicine

Chief, Division of Epidemiology

Director, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center

Associate Director for Population Sciences and Co-Leader of Cancer Epidemiology Program

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, USA


Lecture title:

​Use of Genomics and Other Omics Data to Gain New Insights into Cancer Etiology and Biology.

Professor, Head, Genetic Medicine Dept, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland

Lecture title: Rare diseases: the Geneva Genome Board experience

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Professor & Director, Clinical & Translational Research Inst, Baylor College of Medicine, USALecture title:

Genomic approaches to precision medicine for lung cancer prevention and early detection.

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Professor of Genetics & Endocrinology. Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Lecture title:

GH/IGF1 pathway in human longevity.

Professor of Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Lecture title:
Using stemness as a biomarker for evidence of clinical preventive efficacy

Breast Surgeon, European Institute of Oncology, Italy

​Lecture title:
CDH1 gene test for gastric and breast cancer risk

Professor, Director, Medical Oncology Unit, National Hospital E.O. Ospedali Galliera, SC Oncologia Medica, Italy

Lecture title:

TBA

Senior Lecturer in Clinical Genetics, School of Medicine, Liverpool Univ., UK

​Lecture title:

TBA

Susan F Smith Chair and Chief, Division of Cancer Genetics and Prevention, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA

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Lecture title:

Treatment of breast cancer in mutation carriers: How have PARP inhibitors changed the questions?

CEO, Global Alliance for Genomics & Health (GA4GH), Ontario Cancer Research Inst., Canada

​Lecture title:

TBA

Professor, CEO, Phenome Health, Systems Biology Inst., USA

Lecture title:

TBA

Shai Izraeli,
MD
Professor, Tel Aviv University / Director of the Rina Zaizov Pediatric Hematology Oncology Division, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel / The Dora and Gregorio Shapiro Chair of Hematological Malignancies Dept. of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Lecture title:

Childhood leukemia as a model for precision medicine - achievements, opportunities and challenges

Crews Finley Endowed Chair in Medical Genetics, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, USA


Lecture title:
The Alabama Genomic Health Initiative: Integration of Genomic Medicine into Primary Care

Professor of Medicine & Preventive Medicine, Southern California Univ., USA

Lecture title:

Molecular Landscape in Colorectal Cancer. Shaping the Future.

Lecture title:
Molecular Landscape in Colorectal Cancer. Shaping the Future.

Chief Scientific Officer, Genome Canada

​Lecture title:

TBA

Professor of Preventive Medicine & Geriatrics, Women's Hospital, Canada

Lecture title
Prevention of hereditary breast cancer. MRI or mastectomy?

Chief, Clinical Genetics Service, Chair, Inherited Cancer Genomics, Vice Chair, Academic Affairs, Medicine Dept, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA

Lecture title:

TBA

Professor, Molecular & Human Genetics, Pediatric Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
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Lecture title:

TBA

Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Lecture title:
Achieving equity in precision oncology

Professor, Chief, Breast Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA​

Lecture title:

TBA

Associate Staff and Vice Chair, Genomic Medicine Institute. Cleveland Clinic; Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA

Lecture title

A multidisciplinary approach to investigate factors underlying the rise in young-onset colorectal cancer

Professor of Oncology, Director, Women’s Malignancies Disease Group, Breast Cancer Research Chair in Oncology. The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. Under Armour Breast Health Innovation Center, USA

Lecture title:

Predictors of Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy Discontinuation:
Primary Results from E1Z11 and Beyond

Professor of Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic, USA

Lecture title:

TBA

Professor, Medicine & Human Molecular Genetics, Univ. of California San Francisco, USA

Lecture title:

Genetics of the tumor immune microenvironment and response to immunotherapy

Professor, Head, Genetic Medicine Dept, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland

​Founder & Special Populations Genetics, Regeneron

Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York
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Lecture title:Exome sequencing: A powerful tool for deciphering complex genetic disorders

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Professor of Cancer Risk PredictionCentre for Cancer Genetic EpidemiologyDepartment of Public Health and Primary CareUniversity of CambridgeLecture title:

CanRisk: personalising breast, ovarian and prostate cancer risk prediction for prevention and early detection

Head, Cancer & Immuno-Genetics, Weatherall Inst. of Molecular Medicine, UK

Lecture title:

Cancer immunotherapy: where next" or "A perspective on cancer and ageing

Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Genetics

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School
Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA.
Lecture title:
Smoking and tumor mutation burden

Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Mayo Clinic, USA

Lecture title:
Classification of variants of uncertain significance (VUS) in cancer predisposition genes

Professor of Oncology & Executive Director, Basser Center for BRCA, Pennsylvania Univ., USA



Lecture title:
Germaine testing informing systemic cancer therapy

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Professor in Medical Genetics & Cancer Epidemiology, Manchester Univ., UK

Lecture title:
Breast cancer risk stratification in women of screening age: Incremental effects of adding mammographic density, polygenic risk, and a gene panel.

Director, Cancer Genome Computational Analysis Group, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

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TBA

Vice President, COH Medical Center, Center for Precision Medicine City of Hope, USA
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Lecture title:

TBA

Professor of Medical Oncology, Manchester Univ., UK

Lecture title:

The implications of including gene testing, SNPs and density into moderate and high risk clinics and how this alters management with respect to screening and chemoprevention

Professor, President & Vice-Chancellor of UNSW, Australia

Lecture title:

TBA

Hon. Professor William Harvey Heart Research Institute, QMUL. Hon. Consultant in Clinical Genetics / Cardiovascular Genetics, Barts Heart Centre, St. Barts Hospital. Medical Director/ CEO- The Genomic Medicine Foundation. Hon. Professor Medicine, Swansea School of Medicine, Swansea, UK

Lecture title:
Genomic approaches to sudden cardiac death

Professor, Director of Translational Research, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Lecture title
The mechanism by which mismatch repair deficiency benefits cancer immunotherapy

Professor of Gynaecological Oncology & Consultant (Honorary) Gynaecological Oncologist

Lecture title:1. Population testing for Cancer Susceptibility Genes: UK Experience 2.Cost-effectiveness of ovarian cancer prevention (RRSO) for multiple Ovarian cancer genes – RAD51C, RAD51D, BRIP1 and PALB2

Senior Vice President, Office of the President, Medical Director, Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center; Norna S. Sarofim Chair in Clinical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
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Lecture title:

TBA

Professor in Medicine (Oncology) and Human Genetics, Univ. Chicago, USA

Lecture title:

Reimagining a World without Breast Cancer: Getting to the Root of Inherited Susceptibility

Professor, Molecular & Human Genetics, PediatriProfessor of Pathology, Southern California Univ., USAc Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Lecture title:

TBA

Professor of Epidemiology, Yale Univ., USA

Lecture title:

Clinical Medical Evidence is Not Dominated by Randomized Controlled Trials.

Professor of Medicine, Director, Breast Oncology Clinical Trials Program, Univ. of California at San Francisco, USA

Lecture title:

TBA

Ingram Professor for Cancer Research.Associate Director for Global Health, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.

Lecture title:
Circulating miRNAs as diagnostic and early detection biomarkers for pancreatic cancer.

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Director of Research, Division of Cancer Genetics and Prevention, Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School.

Lecture title:

Development of the PREMMplus model and novel health care delivery models for identification of hereditary cancer predisposition

Vice President, Medical Affairs, Natera, USA

Lecture title:

Multi-level implementation of genomic cancer risk assessment in Latin America: Lessons learned in the GRACIAS project

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