Luminary & Pioneer Awards
The PMWC Luminary Award recognizes recent contributions of preeminent figures who have accelerated personalized medicine into the clinical marketplace. The PMWC Pioneer Award is given to rare individuals who presaged the advent of personalized medicine when less evolved technology and encouragement from peers existed, but still made major advances in the field.
This year, PMWC will be honoring Francis Collins (NIH), Elaine Mardis (NCH) and Keith Yamamoto (UCSF) with the Luminary Award. For the Pioneer Award, Kathy Giusti (Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation) and Mark Levin (Third Rock Ventures) will be recognized.
Luminary Award
Francis S. Collins
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Elaine R. Mardis
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Keith R. Yamamoto
UCSF
Pioneer Award
Mark Levin
Third Rock Ventures
Date & Agenda
Ticket to the PMWC 2017 Duke conference includes a ticket to the award reception.
Venue
Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Winter Garden
100 Fuqua Drive Durham, NC 27708
(919) 660-7700
Winter Garden, Fuqua, Duke
Past Luminary Award Recipients
Edward F. Chang
2017
Pioneer in Human Brain Circuit Mapping to Advance Precision Neuropathology
Jennifer Doudna
2017
Pioneer of the CRISPR-CAS 9 Genome Editing Technology
Roger Perlmutter
2016
Expedited Development of Groundbreaking Therapies
Laura Esserman
2016
Breast Cancer Treatment Paradigm Shifter
Ron Davis
2015
Developed R-loop Technique of Electron Microscopy
Jay Flatley
2014
Established Illumina as the leader in sequence technology
Janet Woodcock
2013
FDA Director, fast-tracked targeted drugs through FDA approval
Brian Druker
2012
Co-inventor, blockbuster drug, Gleevec
George Church
2011
Contributions to the sequencing of genomes and interpreting such data; In Neuroscience he established a “functional connectome”
Lee Hood
2010
Inventions included the automated DNA sequencer and a tool for synthesizing DNA
Past Pioneer Award Recipients
Steve Quake
2017
Steve Quake has pioneered innovative approaches to biological measurement
James Allison
2017
Pioneered Cancer Immunotherapy Through Discovery of the Immune Checkpoint Blockade
Irv Weissman
2016
Pioneer in Regenerative Medicine & Cancer Stem Cells
Ralph Snyderman
2016
Widely recognized as “Father of Personalized Medicine”
Craig Venter
2015
1st Draft Human Gen., 1st Complete Diploid Human Gen., and 1st Synth. Bact. Cell
Dennis Lo
2015
Discovered That An Unborn Fetus Releases Fetal DNA Into Maternal Plasma
Jonathan K.C. Knowles
2015 – UK
Personalized Medicine Leader in both Academia and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Yuet Wain Kan
2014
The first to establish that a single DNA mutation could lead to a human disease, and the first to diagnose a human disease by using DNA
Michael Hayden
2014 – Israel
Developer, First Predictive Test for Huntington’s Disease
Kim Popovits
2013 – Israel
Launched both earliest genetically-targeted therapy and molecular diagnostic assay
