Healthcare & Medical

16th World Clinical Biomarkers & Companion Diagnostics Summit 2026

The 16th World Clinical Biomarkers & Companion Diagnostics Summit is the flagship, global forum uniting 850+ senior leaders from biopharma, diagnostics, regulatory, healthcare, testing labs, and multimodal communities. The event focuses on accelerating complex biomarkers, developing novel and multimodal endpoints, and fostering drug-diagnostic innovations fo…

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10Speakers
7Sponsors
1Exhibitors
15On the bill · sessions
18Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at 16th, in alphabetical order.
Amy H. Kao
Senior Vice President, Global Head, Research Unit, & Neuroscience, Immunology & Billerica Campus Head · EMD Serono the Healthcare business of Merck KGaA
Carol Peña
Associate Vice President, Companion Diagnostic Development · Merck
Emanuele De Rinaldis
Vice President & Global Head, Target, Diseases & Systems Biology · Sanofi
Jeff Jackson
Group Vice President, Translational Medicine · Incyte Corporation
Jim Palma
Chief Executive Officer · TargetCancer Foundation
John W. Longshore
Head, Scientific Affairs, Global Oncology Diagnostics · AstraZeneca
Marsha Crochiere
Vice President, Translational Medicine & Research · Pyxis Oncology
Matthew G.Hanna
Vice Chair, Pathology Informatics · University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Nancy Krunic, Ph.D
Vice President & Precision Medicine Head, Diagnostic Sciences & Partnerships · Novartis
Rowland Illing
Chief Medical Officer & Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences · Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Foundation Medicine
Guardant Health
Myriad
Natera
Personalis
Roche
Sophia Genetics
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Agenda

Selected from 15 sessions on the bill.
  • 12:00 pm

    Thought Leadership Workshop in Partnership with Roche

    From Concept to Commercialization: Navigating Multimodal Strategy & Early IVD Migration Join Roche for an interactive workshop session featuring rapid technology demonstrations, l…

  • 3:30 pm

    Hosted Reception in Partnership with Natera

    Rethinking Clinical Development with ctDNA-MRD: From Early Signals to Late-Phase Strategy Natera is hosting an interactive working session on how ctDNA-MRD can reshape clinical de…

  • 3:30 pm

    Thought Leadership Engager in Partnership with Natera

    Rethinking Clinical Development with ctDNA-MRD: From Early Signals to Late-Phase Strategy Natera is hosting an interactive working session on how ctDNA-MRD can reshape clinical dev…

  • 6:15 pm

    Dinner Conversations in Partnership with Guardant Health

    AI is Everywhere: Where is the Impact in Drug Discovery & Development? Biopharma teams have access to more data than ever before - yet turning genomic, epigenomic, and clinical dat…

  • 6:15 pm

    Hosted Reception Engager in Partnership with Guardant Health

    AI is Everywhere: Where is the Impact in Drug Discovery & Development? Biopharma teams have access to more data than ever before - yet turning genomic, epigenomic, and clinical da…

  • 7:15 pm

    Hosted Reception Engager in Partnership with Personalis

  • 7:30 pm

    Dinner Conversations in Partnership with Myriad Genetics & SOPHiA GENETICS

  • 7:30 pm

    Hosted Reception Engager in Partnership with Myriad Genetics & SOPHiA GENETICS

  • 8:30 am

    Thought Leadership Workshop in Partnership with Foundation Medicine

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 18 companies, parsed from the program.

Eighteen companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
7Sponsoringsponsor only
1Exhibitingexhibitor only
10Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

80% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite220%
  • VP-level660%
  • Other roles220%

Of 10 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Foundation MedicineSp
  2. 02Guardant HealthSp
  3. 03MyriadSp
  4. 04NateraSp
  5. 05PersonalisSp
  6. 06RocheSp
  7. 07Sophia GeneticsSp
  8. 08TakedaEx
  9. 09AstraZeneca1V
  10. 10AWS1V
  11. 11EMD Serono the Healthcare business of Merck KGaA1V
  12. 12Incyte1V
  13. 13Merck1V
  14. 14Novartis1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified7
100% of 7

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