VP of Hereditary Disease
Tempus Labs, Inc.
Francisco De La Vega is Vice President of Hereditary Disease at Tempus Labs. Francisco is an experienced technical leader of the life sciences tools industry, having spent over a decade at Applied Biosystems/Life Technologies developing several successful genetic analysis products, and more recently contributing to technology start-up companies focused on bringing genome sequencing into the clinic. He is an internationally recognized geneticists and computational biologist and has participated in several breakthrough international projects such as the 1000 Genomes Project, the Genome in a Bottle Consortium, and the International Cancer Genome Consortium. Francisco has co-authored more than 100 scientific publications, including papers in top journals such as Nature, Nature Genetics, Science, Genome Research and others, which have received over 20,000 citations. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Science of the Stanford University School of Medicine.