Breakthrough West 2026 / Speakers
On stage at Breakthrough West
Check out this year’s lineup below and stay tuned for more announcements to come. Apply to speak today.

Sponsor Speaker
Aliza Apple, Ph.D.
VP of Catalyze360 AI/ML & Global Head of Lilly TuneLab, Eli Lilly and Company

Joe Betts-LaCroix
CEO, Retro Biosciences

Ricky Bloomfield, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Oura

Seemay Chou
CEO, Arcadia Science; President, Astera Institute

Sponsor Speaker
Jonah Cool, Ph.D.
Head of Life Sciences Partnerships & Deployment, Anthropic

Sponsor Speaker
Anthony Costello
CEO, Medidata

Sponsor Speaker
Arpit Davé
Chief Digital and Information Officer, BioMarin

Holly Fernandez Lynch, J.D.
Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Law, University of Pennsylvania

Sponsor Speaker
Aleksey I. Gerasyuto, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Drug Discovery, Head of Chemistry, Schrödinger

Dave, Joanie, and Jorie Kraus

Lauren J. Kopsick
Founder & Executive Director, The Healthcare Navigation Project

Neil Kumar Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, BridgeBio Pharma, Inc.

Sponsor Speaker
Zoë Harris Lazarre, Ph.D., MPH
Chief Marketing Officer, Genentech

William H. Lewis, J.D., M.B.A
Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Insmed

Vincent Liu, M.D.
Chief Data Officer, The Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente

Ted W. Love, M.D.
Immediate Past Chair, BIO; Former CEO, GBT

Tippi MacKenzie, M.D.
Director, The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF

Sponsor Speaker
Mohit Manrao
SVP of US Oncology, AstraZeneca; President, AstraZeneca Foundation

Sponsor Speaker
Leslie Oley Wilberforce
Chief Executive Officer, Evidation

Sponsor Speaker
Charlotte Owens, M.D.
SVP and Head of U.S. Medical, Genentech

Sponsor Speaker
Amit Phull, M.D.
Chief Clinical Experience Officer, Doximity

Jacqueline Poot
President, Strategic Consulting and Analytics, IDEA Pharma Business Unit, SAI MedPartners

Mark Sendak, M.D.
Co-Founder and CEO, Vega Health

Sponsor Speaker
Dana Spencer
Senior Director, Innovation and Strategy, Population Health Center of Excellence, Genentech

Marc Tessier-Levigne, Ph.D.
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Xaira Therapeutics

Whitney Thompson, M.D. M.Phil
Physician, Mayo Clinic

Alex Vannoni
Head of Healthcare Product, WHOOP

Yael Weiss, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer, Mahzi Therapeutics

Anne Wojciciki
Founder and CEO, 23andMe Research Institute

Zachary Ziegler
Co-founder and CTO, OpenEvidence

Moderator
Mario Aguilar
Health Tech Correspondent, STAT

Moderator
Rick Berke
Co-founder & Executive Editor, STAT

Moderator
Allison DeAngelis
Biotech Startups and Venture Capital Reporter, STAT

Moderator
Adam Feuerstein
Senior Writer, Biotech, STAT

Moderator
Damian Garde
Reporter at Large, Live and Feature Journalism, STAT

Moderator
Matthew Herper
Senior Writer, Medicine, Editorial Director of Events, STAT

Moderator
Lison Joseph
Health Tech Editor, STAT

Moderator
Katherine MacPhail
Reporter, Live Journalism, STAT

Moderator
Jason Mast
General Assignment Reporter, STAT

Moderator
Jesse McQuarters
Branded Content Editor, STAT

Moderator
Megan Molteni
Science Writer, STAT

Moderator
Katie Palmer
Health Tech Correspondent, STAT

Moderator
Casey Ross
Chief Investigative Reporter, Data & Technology, STAT

Moderator
Brittany Trang
Health Tech Reporter, STAT