QB3 Webinar: Aviv Regev, Genentech & Roche. “Cell Atlases as Roadmaps in Health and Disease”

The recent advent of methods for high-throughput single-cell and spatial profiling has opened the way to create a human cell atlas: comprehensive reference maps of all human cells as a basis for both understanding human health and diagnosing, monitoring, and treating disease. Such maps reveal rich biology to help us understand in which cells disease genes act, which cells are disrupted in disease, what mechanisms underlie their (dys)regulation, and what impact therapies would have. In this talk, Aviv Regev, head of Genentech Research and Early Development, will describe how atlases illuminate the relation between genotype to phenotype, especially in the context of human genetics and diseases such as cancer and COVID-19, using single cell genomics as a conceptual and technical framework. She will also describe how this deeper approach to directly probing human biology, in combination with new computational algorithms and new therapeutic modalities, is poised to accelerate the drug discovery process.

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Aviv is fantastic!

[@manmohanmehta5697]

Speechless it exposes the level of ignorance most of us are in. Thanks 👍👍👍👍