9th Annual Omenn Lecture
BSRB, Khan Auditorium
FREE
About This Event
"From Cell Atlases to Medicines, with AI"
Presented by Aviv Regev, PhD
Live lecture with networking reception and poster sessions to follow.
- 3:30pm - Lecture
- 4:45-6pm - Reception/Poster Session.
Hosted by Gilbert S. Omenn Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Genome Science Training Program, Life Sciences Institute, and Single Cell Spatial Analysis Program.
About the Omenn Lectureship
The Annual Gilbert S. Omenn Lecture series features high-profile scientists discussing a variety of scientific topics and issues around bioinformatics, data science and the development of this field.
This annual event gathers the DCMB and CCMB scientific communities while inviting a larger audience within U-M and beyond.
The series is supported by the Dr. Gilbert S. Omenn fund.
Presenters
Aviv Regev, PhD
Head, Executive Vice President, Genentech Research and Early Development
Aviv Regev is head of Genentech Research and Early Development. Formerly, Regev was Chair of the Faculty and Core Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Professor of Biology at MIT, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. She is founding co-chair of the Human Cell Atlas and a leader in deciphering molecular circuits that govern cells, tissues, and organs in health and their malfunction in disease. She has pioneered foundational experimental and computational methods in single-cell genomics, enabling greater understanding of cell and tissue functions. Regev is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the International Society of Computational Biology. Her many honors include the ISCB Overton and Innovator Prizes, Paul Marks Prize, Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences, Keio Medical Science Prize, HFSP Nakasone Award, the L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award and the William B. Coley Award.
Host/Moderator
Gilbert S Omenn, MD, PhD
Professor
