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Over 80 dynamic interactive discussions, roundtables, and presentations curated with insights from top industry leaders and experts
NextGen Omics US 2025
March 2025 | Boston, MA
Leveraging multi-omic data to unlock transformative insights into cellular biology, disease and drug discovery
NextGen Omics US 2025
Meet Our Expert Speakers
The event brings together a panel of prominent leaders and scientists, sharing new case studies, innovative data, and industry outlooks. Below were some of the featured speakers at NextGen Omics US 2024: 21 - 22 March 2024, Boston, MA, USA
Anna Lyubetskaya
Sr Principal Scientist,
Bristol Myers Squibb
Bin Li
Director, Computational Biology,
Takeda
Colles Price
Principal Scientist,
Takeda
Jasmine Plummer
Director,
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Jindan Yu
Professor,
EMORY UNIVERSITY
Marina Bleck
Principal Scientist,
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Ali Rahnavard
Assistant Professor,
The George Washington University
Amrut Sarangi
Computational Scientist,
Sanofi
Asaf Rotem
Senior Director,
AstraZeneca
Ashley Fletcher
Laboratory Manager / Bioinformatician,
Duke University
Changsheng Zhao
Associated professor,
Emory University
Cory White
Researcher,
Merck
Deidre Dalmas
Scientific Director,
GSK
Jason Kim
Professor and Director,
10x Genomics
Jeremy Huang
Senior Scientist - Single Cell & Systems Biology,
Sanofi
Josee Champagne
Associate Director, Clinical Development,
Northern Therapeutics
Josh Fienman
Scientist, Genomics,
Pfizer Ltd
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Jun Wang
Associate Professor,
Stony Brook University New York
Kan Xiong
Senior Scientist and Group Leader,
Broad Institute
Katy Borner
Victor H. Yngve Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering,
Indiana University Bloomington
Kyoung Jae Won Won
Professor,
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Liguo Wang
Associate Professor in Biomedical Informatics,
Mayo Clinic
Lindsey Erion Barner
Senior Scientist,
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Mandovi Chatterjee
Director, Single Cell Core,
Harvard Medical School
Monika Mehta
Senior Genomics Scientist,
Integrated Research Facility (NIAID)
Nikolai Slavov
Professor,
Northeastern University
Ron Weiss
Professor,
MIT
Serena Dollive
Senior Scientist II,
Oxford Biomedica
Shuqiang Li
Senior Scientist,
Broad Institute
Tom Defay
Deputy Head Diagnostics Strategy & Development,
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Towia Libermann
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Tujin Shi
Senior Scientist,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Winston Hide
Associate Professor,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School
Xingyi Shi
Expert II Data Science,
Novartis
Yasser Riazalhosseini
Associate Professor,
McGill University
Yixing Han
Staff Scientist,
National Institutes of Health
Yong Zeng
Professor,
University of Florida
Meet Our Esteemed Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Sponsors of NextGen Omics US 2024 included
Allumiqs
Network & Programme Sponsor
Allumiqs is an LC-MS and multiomics CRO solutions partner for biotech and biopharma customers. We bring together proven processes, methodologies, and industry-leading LC-MS technologies, as well as data analytics and insights to save our clients time and money in their development pipelines. Allumiqs is an innovation partner enabling speed, quality, and customer success in advancing your scientific discoveries and life-saving products.
Ardigen
Network & Programme Sponsor
Ardigen, a world-leading AI CRO, stands at the forefront of enabling AI transformation for the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors. Our objective is to increase the probability of success in the drug development process. We utilize our advanced platforms and deep expertise to turn vast amounts of data into pivotal, ready-to-use scientific insights. Leveraging our expertise, we also enhance the infrastructure that allows our clients to integrate and utilize these capabilities seamlessly within their organizations.
Becton Dickinson Biosciences
Bronze Sponsor
BD Life Sciences is focused on advancing the world of health™ by delivering complete solutions for our customers – from discovery to diagnosis. Our experts collaborate globally to address significant healthcare challenges, including infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and unlocking the potential of immunology and cell biology. Join us in one of our business units and you’ll be surrounded by a network of knowledge, experience, and resources.
Bionano
Bronze Sponsor
Bionano is a global life sciences company on a mission to transform the way the world sees the genome. We provide genome analysis solutions that can help reveal answers to challenging questions in biology and medicine across basic, translational, and clinical research. Our solutions include optical genome mapping (OGM) systems for genome-wide analysis of structural variants;platform-agnostic software for visualization, interpretation, and reporting of genomic data with VIA™;and clinical diagnostic testing and genome analysis services through Bionano Laboratories
Canopy Biosciences- A Bruker Company
Silver Sponsor
Canopy Biosciences, a Bruker company, empowers innovation by providing access to cutting-edge spatial biology and multi-omic tools so biomedical researchers can drive scientific discovery faster. Our proprietary technology ChipCytometry™ is a quantitative multiplex immunofluorescence imaging method for the spatial analysis of complex tissues and mapping of cell populations with single-cell resolution. Supported by Canopy Spatial Services™ with our CLIA-certified laboratory, we provide a unique collection of spatial and single-cell technologies that accelerate the understanding of cellular diversity and interaction. Learn more at CanopyBiosciences.com.
Code Ocean
Gold Sponsor
Code Ocean is a Computational Science platform for life science R&D teams who want a fast and efficient way to start, scale, collaborate, and reproduce computational research. It helps Computational Scientists set up and scale their workflows, work closer together, and lets them support non-coding bench scientists with accessible, intuitive applications. Built on FAIR data principles, it helps avoid technical debt, improves data architecture, and improves organizational compliance and quality.
Codetta Bio
Bespoke Sponsorship
Our multiplex immunoassay panel offers high-value immunomodulatory proteins with ultra-sensitive measurement, a capability not currently available in the market. With Codetta assays, we facilitate multiplexing with up to a 10^8 dynamic range from a single sample. Our unique trifecta lies in our ability to simultaneously: 1. Measure low target proteins using digital immuno-PCR methods 2. Quantify high target concentrations with immuno-qPCR 3. Employ unique "noise-canceling technology" that eliminates background signals and interference present in conventional multiplexed immunoassay technologies.
Exact Sciences
Silver Sponsor
Getting ahead of cancer is crucial no matter where people are in their cancer experience. From earlier cancer detection to treatment guidance and monitoring, we are helping people get the answers they need to make more informed decisions across the cancer continuum. With a leading portfolio of products for earlier detection and treatment guidance, we help people face the most challenging decisions with confidence. Our dedication to taking on the impossible fuels everything we do. We are continuously innovating, combining scientific rigor with an open-minded approach to deliver the next big thing. We are Exact Sciences, and we’re changing lives together through earlier detection and smarter answers, from risk to remission.
Genseq
Network & Programme Sponsor
Genseq provides best-in-class next-generation sequencing services to the biopharma and clinical research sectors worldwide. Operating from our CAP-accredited laboratory in Dublin, and equipped with state-of-the-art sequencing platforms, our highly experienced team consistently generates high quality multiomic data at scale to meet our customers’ diverse project goals. Genseq’s comprehensive range of laboratory services includes DNA sequencing, RNA sequencing, single cell sequencing, microarrays, bioinformatic analysis, biobanking and sample management. From sample receipt to data analysis, Genseq take care to maximise the potential of every sample, every time.
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Levitasbio
Gold Sponsor
LevitasBio is dedicated to advancing science and human health by providing researchers with new and powerful methods for sample preparation and characterization. The LeviCell platform is a first-in-class cell enrichment solution powered by a proprietary, label-free, and gentle Levitation Technology. Our unique solution generates high-quality samples while preserving the cells’ native state, enabling researchers across multiple scientific disciplines to uncover true biology. Accelerate Scientific Discovery With the Power of Levitation Technology
NanoString Technologies
Diamond Sponsorship
NanoString Technologies, a leader in spatial biology, offers an ecosystem of innovative discovery and translational research solutions. The GeoMx® Digital Spatial Profiler is a flexible solution combining the power of whole tissue imaging with gene expression and protein data for spatial whole transcriptomics and proteomics from one FFPE slide. The CosMx™ Spatial Molecular Imager (SMI) is an FFPE-compatible, single-cell imaging platform powered by spatial multiomics enabling researchers to map single cells in their native environments. The AtoMx™ Spatial Informatics Platform (SIP) is a cloud-based informatics solution with advanced analytics and global collaboration capabilities, enabling spatial biology insights anytime, anywhere. www.nanostring.com.
Psomagen
Network & Programme Sponsor
Psomagen, Inc., formerly Macrogen USA, is a Maryland-based multiomics service provider. The company delivers cutting-edge single-cell, spatial biology, genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics technologies to academic, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and clinical markets. With both CLIA-certified and CAP-accredited facilities, Psomagen provides the highest-quality integrative multiomics data using best-in-class instrumentation and analysis systems. In conjunction with its bioinformatics capabilities, Psomagen offers a path to insights that is both simple and affordable.
Quantum Si
Platinum Sponsor
Quantum-Si aims to improve human health by empowering researchers, scientists, and clinicians with the technology to reveal in-depth proteomic insights in an easy-to-use and accessible workflow. By making protein sequencing and analysis accessible, we can better understand the role of proteins in cell biology and disease and use this knowledge to improve human health.
Sapient
Silver Sponsor
Sapient is a biomarker discovery organization providing bespoke services for metabolomics, lipidomics, and proteomics data generation and analysis, enabling biopharma sponsors to go beyond the genome to accelerate precision drug development. Using state-of-the-art, high-throughput mass spectrometry technologies, Sapient enables nontargeted multi-omics measurements to capture thousands of dynamic biomarkers in human, preclinical, and cellular biosamples, across thousands of samples at a time. These technologies are leveraged within a larger discovery infrastructure that includes a comprehensive biocomputational framework for analysis of large-scale, multi-omics data;robust quality control analysis;and mapping of key biomarker-phenotype associations. Sapient can cross-validate discoveries using our proprietary in-house longitudinal Human Biology Database that includes data from over 100,000 human biosamples with paired phenotypic measures. Together our approaches enable rapid identification, validation, and translation of dynamic biomarkers of biological processes, disease mechanisms, and drug response across all drug development phases.
Scailyte
Silver Sponsor
We are a leading biomarker and companion diagnostics company that solves the toughest clinical challenges by leveraging our unique AI-driven translational platform and single-cell multi-omics data. We have developed one of the first and most promising molecular diagnostics assays for diagnosing endometriosis and we are now focusing on deploying our approach in immunology and oncology - we are looking to partner with ambitious biotech and pharma companies and work together to bring precision medicine solutions to the patients
Scipio Bioscience
Gold Sponsor
Scipio bioscience is an early-stage company that develops innovative solutions for single-cell sample preparation and data analysis to answer the growing needs of basic and clinical research labs. Its patented technology is based on an innovative hydrogel-based single-tube approach conceived by its President and Co-Founder, Prof Stuart Edelstein, a world-renowned biophysicist. The recently launched Asteria™ single-cell RNA-seq kit is the first kit to provide an efficient solution for fresh samples, preserving the most complete transcriptome. It comes with its companion Cytonaut™, an end-to-end cloud-based data analysis software covering the entire pipeline from processing sequencing data to generating publication-grade figures.
Single Cell Discoveries
Silver Sponsor
Located in Utrecht, the Netherlands, our purpose-built single-cell sequencing lab is operated by a team of PhD-level scientists, some of whom have pioneered the single-cell platforms we employ to deliver exceptional service. At Single Cell Discoveries, we are dedicated to crafting customized solutions for your unique challenges, ensuring rapid turnaround times, and unlocking high-impact biological insights. We eat, sleep, and breathe single-cell biology so you can focus on advancing your discovery program
Singular Genomics
Silver Sponsor
Singular Genomics is a life science technology company that develops next-generation sequencing and multiomics technologies. The commercially available G4® Sequencing Platform is a powerful, highly versatile benchtop genomic sequencer designed to produce fast and accurate results. In addition, the company is currently developing the G4X™ Spatial Sequencer, an upgrade to the G4, which will leverage Singular’s proprietary sequencing technology, applying it as an in situ readout for transcriptomics, proteomics and fluorescent H&E in tissue, with spatial context. Singular Genomics’ mission is to empower researchers and clinicians to advance science and medicine.
TileDB
Silver Sponsor
TileDB is the modern database that integrates all data modalities, code and compute in a single product. TileDB provides a unified data management infrastructure for any omics modality. Top pharmas, leading hospitals, life sciences, genomics and biomedical companies use TileDB to efficiently analyze large, complex datasets directly on the cloud, including genomic variants, biomedical imaging, single-cell data, ML models, and more. TileDB was spun out of MIT and Intel Labs in May 2017 and is backed by numerous world-class investors.
Via Scientific
Network & Programme Sponsor
Via Scientific empowers researchers to accelerate their science through Foundry, a flexibly deployed bioinformatics data management and analysis platform. Foundry enables scientists to efficiently interrogate underlying biology and shorten time to insight generation – helping them advance discovery research programs, optimize development of precision medicines, and bridge the translational gap between bedside and bench.
Vizgen
Bronze Sponsor
Vizgen is dedicated to pioneering the next generation of situ single-cell spatial genomics tools, setting the standard for the spatial genomics field. The company’s MERSCOPE® Platform enables massively multiplexed, genome-scale nucleic acid imaging with high accuracy and unrivaled detection efficiency at subcellular resolution. Powered by MERFISH (Multiplexed error robust fluorescence situ hybridization) technology, over 120 publications demonstrate how the technology is enabling researchers to gain new insight into the biological systems that govern human health and disease with spatial context. For more information, go to www.vizgen.com. Connect on social media Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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More analysis means more data, and sharing multi-omics datasets can present challenges as well as blessings.
Research Spotlight: Multi-Omics Data Harmonization for SARS-CoV-2 Virus and Drug Target Identification
The approach to omic data analysis combines multiple types of omic datasets in the hope of understanding multiple layers of a biological system.
Post-Event Proceedings – NextGen Omics US 2023
Concise and insightful summaries of presentations delivered by prominent thought leaders at NextGen Omics US 2023.
Cutting-Edge Trends in Spatial Omics: Speaking to Jasmine Plummer, Director of the Center for Spatial Omics at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Jasmine Plummer is Director of the Centre for Spatial Omics at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. We spoke to her about her work in new genomic technologies for disease treatment and development ahead of her opening keynote presentation at NextGen Omics US and Synthetic Biology US 2024.
FDA Clears Genomic Profiling Test for Solid Tumours
Regulatory approval for comprehensive genomic profiling test signifies “significant advancement in personalised cancer care.”
Pianno: a Model for the Annotation of Spatial Transcriptomics Data
The model has unveiled insights on the evolution and diversification of the cell types of the brain.