PRECISION MEDICINE
AND THE FUTURE
OF GENOMICS
PMFG SUMMIT 2025

Registration & Networking Breakfast

OPENING PLENARY LECTURE

Speaker: Stephen Kingsmore, President and CEO of Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, USA

Set The Stage: Leaders Panel with the Chief Research Officer

Chair: Khalid Fakhro

Speakers:
Stephen Kingsmore, President and CEO of Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, USA
Molley He, CEO, Elements Biosciences, USA

SESSION-1: Keynote Lectures on Genomic Medicine Implementation

Special Keynote Lecture 1:

Special Keynote Lecture 2:

Speaker: Tawfeg Ben Omran, Division Chief of Genetic and Genomic Medicine, Sidra Medicine, Qatar

Special Talk:

Speaker: Heidi Rehm, Population Genetics Program Directo, Broad Institute, USA

Special Talk: Building Clinical Genomic Infrastructure Through Population-Scale Long-Read Sequencing

Speaker: Neil Ward, Vice President and General Manager, PacBio, UK

SESSION 2: Accelerating Genomic Medicine Through Advanced Technologies

Fireside Chat
Industry Sponsored Session

Speaker: Jacob Thaysen, CEO, Illumina, USA

Standard Talk

Speaker: Claudia Langenberg, Queen Mary University, UK

Industry Sponsored Talk

Speaker: Molly He, CEO, Elements Biosciences, USA

Industry Sponsored Talk

SESSION 3: Disrupting the Code: Quantum Computing’s Role in the Future of Genomics

Exploring early use cases and future possibilities at the intersection of quantum technologies and genomic medicine.

Industry Sponsored talk

Speaker: Ilyas Khan, Founder and CEO, Quantinuum, USA

Industry Sponsored talk

SESSION 4: Enablers of Innovation: Building Qatar’s Research Capacity for Impact – Track 1

Local Institution QPHI

Speaker: Wadha Al-Muftah, Chief Medical and Operations Officer, QPHI, Qatar

Precision Medicine Opportunities: A New Paradigm in Pediatric and Adult Genetic Health

Speaker: Reem Alsulaiman

Local Institution- QRDI

Local Institution – QSTP

SESSION 5: Award-Winning Abstracts

Travel Award Winner-1

Travel Award Winner-2

Travel Award Winner-3

AI, Big Data & Future Trends

Speaker: Olivier Elemento

Closing Remarks – Day 1

Registration & Networking Breakfast

SESSION 1: Morning Forum

Sidra’s Medicine Translational Research Programs

Speakers:
Khalid Fakhro
Ibrahim Janahi

Sidra Clinical Research Talk-1

Sidra Clinical Research Talk-2

SESSION 2: OPENING PLENARY LECTURE

Ecosystem Thinking in Precision Medicine: Connecting Research, Technology & Clinical Impact

Speaker: Ed Liu

The CEO Leaders Panel

Dr. Iyabo Tinubu-Karch

Fireside Chat

Industry Sponsored Fireside Chat

Reimagining Innovation in a Data-Driven World: From Labs to Lives

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

SESSION 3: N-OF-1 THERAPIES: PRECISION AT THE SINGLE PATIENT LEVEL

Special Keynote Lecture

Speaker: Tim Yu, Boston Children Hospital

Special Keynote Lecture

Speaker: Kiran Musunuru, University of Pennsylvania

Special Keynote Lecture

Speaker: Hakon Hakonarson, Director, Center for Applied Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Sponsored Panel Discussion

AstraZeneca and BeginNGS Consortium
New Beginnings: Rewriting the story for infants with rare diseases in our region

Chair: Ammira Akil

Speakers:
Abdulrazaq Al-Jazairi, Director, the clinical Trials Transformation Division, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, KSA
Stephen Kingsmore, President and CEO of Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, USA
Khalid Fakhro, Chief Research Officer, Sidra Medicine, Qatar
Maha Zaki, Human Genetics and Genome Research Institute, Egypt

SESSION 4: Genomics Through Their Eyes: The Patient Perspective

Patient Voice

SESSION-5: Precision Health in Practice: Global Lessons for Policy & Trust

Interactive Panel Discussion

World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH)

Speakers:
Ma’n Zawati, Executive Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University, Canada
Barry Sulaiman, Assistant Professor in healthcare and constitutional law, HBKU, Qatar

SESSION 5: Global Clinical trials in Rare Disease Therapies

Session Keynote Speaker

Speaker: Carlo Giaquinto, President, Penta Foundation, Italy

Industry Sponsored talk

Speaker: Devyn M. Smith, CEO, Arbor Biotechnologies, USA

Industry Sponsored talk

Speaker: Srinivas Chunduru, Chief Scientific Officer, EveryONE Medicines Inc. USA

Standard Talk

Speaker: Mohamed Abdelbaki, Washington University, USA

Closing lecture

Speaker: Andrew Singleton, Director of the Center for Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias, NIH, USA.

Closing Remarks of Day 2

Registration & Networking Breakfast

SESSION 1: Morning Forum

OPENING PLENARY LECTURE
Population Genomics: From Discovery to Impact

Speaker: Patrick Tan, Dean (Designate); Senior Vice Dean, Office of Research, Singapore

SESSION 2: Global and Regional Expert Insights on Large Scale Genomic Studies

Featured Keynote Lecture

Speaker: David Bick, Genomics England, UK

Special Keynote Lecture

Speaker: Fowzan Alkuraya, Chief Medical & Genomics Officer, Lifera Omics, KSA

Special Keynote Lecture

Speaker: Ambroise Wonkam, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Panel Discussion
Can Regional Genomic Initiatives Influence Global Health Priorities?

Chair: Sonia Davila

Speakers:
David Bick, Genomics England, UK
Ambroise Wonkam, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Ambroise Wonkam, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Fowzan Alkuraya, Chief Medical & Genomics Officer, Lifera Omics, KSA

SESSION-3 Innovations in Precision Medicine for Rare and Undiagnosed Conditions

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Industry Sponsored Talk
The Human Genome Projects in China: From HGP-to-HGP 2

Speaker: Yan LI, Beijing Institute of Genomics (BGI), China

Standard Talk

Poster Abstract Winner-1 – 5 mins only

Poster Abstract Winner-2 – 5 mins only

SESSION-4: THERAPUTICS

Standard Talk

Speaker: Rob Chiesa, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, NHS, UK

Standard Talk

Speaker: Calum MacRae, Director of One Brave Idea, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA

Standard Talk

Speaker: Uğur Özbek (IBG), ERA Chair of the RareBoost project, IBG Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, Turkey

SESSION-5

Industry Sponsored Talk

Fire Rapid Talk

 The Knowledge Engines: Qatar’s Roadmap to Impact – Track 2

Local Institution-WCMQ

Local Institution- QU

Speaker: Aiman Erbad, VP for Research & Graduate Studies, Qatar university, Qatar

Local Institution-UDST

Local Institution – HBKU

SESSION 5: DEBATE

TBC

CLOSING PLENNARY LECTURE

Speaker: Manolis Dermitzakis, President, Qatar Precision Health Institute, Qatar

Reflections: The Takeaways

Speaker: Khalid Fakhro, Chief Research Officer, Sidra Medicine

PMFG 2026 Announcement

Speakers:
Ammira Akil
Sonia Davila

AWARDING CEREMONY-2