Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Gilbert S. Omenn Lecture

2:30 PM to 5:00 PM

Forum Hall, Palmer Commons

  • 2:30pm
    Poster Session & Light Refreshments
  • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
    Lecture

by Dr. Atul Butte, UCSF School of Medicine, Pediatrics

The Gilbert S. Omenn Lectureship in Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics to honor Dr. Omenn’s contributions to the establishment of CCMB and his continued leadership and vision for our department.

The Fifth Annual Gilbert S. Omenn Lectureship will be given by Dr. Atul Butte.

Atul Butte
Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D.

"Translating a Trillion Points of Data into Therapies, Diagnostics, and New Insights into Disease"

Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D.

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, and Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Director, Institute for Computational Health Sciences and Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
Executive Director for Clinical Informatics, University of California Health Sciences and Services

Abstract:

There is an urgent need to take what we have learned in our new “genome era” and use it to create a new system of precision medicine, delivering the best preventative or therapeutic intervention at the right time, for the right patients.  Dr. Butte's lab at the University of California, San Francisco builds and applies tools that convert trillions of points of molecular, clinical, and epidemiological data -- measured by researchers and clinicians over the past decade and now commonly termed “big data” -- into diagnostics, therapeutics, and new insights into disease. Several of these methods or findings have been spun out into new biotechnology companies.  Dr. Butte, a computer scientist and pediatrician, will highlight his lab’s recent work, including the use of publicly-available molecular measurements to find new uses for drugs including new therapies for autoimmune diseases and cancer, discovering new druggable targets in disease, the evaluation of patients and populations presenting with whole genomes sequenced, integrating and reusing the clinical and genomic data that result from clinical trials, discovering new diagnostics include blood tests for complications during pregnancy, and how the next generation of biotech companies might even start in your garage.

Poster Session

Please sign up now to present a poster at the upcoming 5th Annual Omenn Lectureship featuring speaker Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D..
The poster session will be held on Wed, March 21 at 2:30pm in Great Lakes North/Central of the Palmer Commons Building.
The lecture will be immediately following the poster session in Forum Hall at 3:30pm.

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