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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
0On the bill · sessions
17Companies · 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
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 17 companies, parsed from the program.

Seventeen companies in attendance.

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Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
7Sponsoringsponsor 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. 08Amazon Web Services (AWS)1V
  9. 09AstraZeneca1V
  10. 10EMD Serono the Healthcare business of Merck KGaA1V
  11. 11Incyte Corporation1V
  12. 12Merck1V
  13. 13Novartis1V
  14. 14Pyxis Oncology1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified7
100% of 7