Dr. Abhay Sanan is a Neurosurgeon with more than 24 years of experience in broad areas of neurosciences. He understands how technology drives outcomes and is currently leading a clinical partnership with INanoBio for development of diagnostic technologies for early CNS disease detection, with an initial focus on brain tumors. He is a board certified neurosurgeon who has held numerous management positions. In addition to his role at Center for Neurosciences Tucson, he serves as Director of Neurosciences at Tucson Medical Center and as Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona, Division of Neurosurgery. Dr. Sanan and his research have received numerous awards throughout his career.
Dr. Chenming Hu, Professor Emeritus of EECS at UC Berkeley, is the visionary inventor of the FinFET or 3D transistor architecture. He is a world’s foremost authority on CMOS device physics, modeling and manufacturing. To address the limits of Moore’s law scaling in CMOS transistors, Dr. Hu conceived the tri-gate FinFET design that enables further scaling and integration in the third dimension by stacking-up transistors vertically. Intel began commercializing the 3D transistor based chips in 2011, with most others following soon. Dr. Hu served as Chief Technology Officer of TSMC from 2001 to 2004. He has authored four books and 900 research papers, and has been granted over 100 US patents.
Dr. George Church is professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of Personal Genome Project. His 1984 Harvard PhD included the first methods for direct genome sequencing and molecular multiplexing, which helped initiate the Human Genome Project. In addition to innovations that contributed to nearly all next generation sequencing methods, Dr. Church is a principle inventor of protein nanopore sequencing. He has founded close to a dozen companies in the areas of Genomic Medicine, Gene Therapy and Synthetic Biology, such as Editas, Gen9, WarpDrive, Joule, Knome to name a few. Dr. Church has also pioneered new privacy, biosafety , environmental & biosecurity policies.