Speakers
Aparna Vasanthakumar, Ph.D
Senior Principal Research Scientist – AbbVie Genome Research Center
Aparna Vasanthakumar is a Senior Principal Research Scientist in the Genomics Research Center in AbbVie, where she directs pharmacogenomic and exploratory genomic studies in the Neuroscience, Specialty Medicine and Virology spaces. She was the 2019 chair of the Alzheimer’s disease neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) private partners Scientific Board (PPSB), which manages the companies and private institutions that provide advice from the industry scientific perspective on the ADNI consortium. She also leads the ADNI DNA methylation working group, a sub-team within the ADNI Genetics core, which has as its objective the longitudinal epigenetic analysis of ADNI subjects to identify novel biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease progression. She also served as the Programing Chair in the International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART) Alliance of Women Researchers (AWARE) Professional Interest Area from 2020-2022.
Andrea O’Hara, Ph.D
Technical Specialist | Azenta Life Sciences
Andrea O’Hara is a technical specialist at Azenta Life Sciences and has over 14 years of experience in next generation sequencing. She earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in genetics and molecular biology and did her postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health.
Cindy Lawley, Ph.D
Technical Specialist | Azenta Life Sciences
Cindy spent 14 years at Illumina starting in 2004 after completing her PhD at UC San Diego. While at Illumina, she founded the Consortia program and helped build over 40 commercial and shared genotyping beadchips through customer partnership. These included the MEGA and GSA arrays that still drive Illumina revenue today. Cindy joined Olink to drive population health initiatives, working closely with the UK Biobank, FinnGen, SCALLOP and other large cohort studies.
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