Cynthia is a newborn ICU nurse by trade that has spent the last six years in the medical device industry educating nurses and doctors about devices that are new to their facility. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, traveling the world with her family, and creating Halloween animatronics for her annual front yard display. She has a passion for life-long learning and enjoys sharing what she learns with the people around her.

Francois Aguet is a computational biologist and currently leads Research and Computational Biology at Predicta Biosciences, a precision oncology company leveraging multiomics and cell-based liquid biopsies to develop innovative diagnostic and therapeutic solutions. Prior to this, he served as an Associate Director at Illumina’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and as a Group Leader at the Broad Institute, where his work focused on uncovering the genetic foundations of human diseases. He has contributed to several major research consortia, including the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project, the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Program, the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC), and the Developmental GTEx (dGTEx) project, helping to advance the understanding of genetic effects across human tissues.