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Unveiling the 2026 theme

SUMMIT NEWS | BREAKTHROUGH WEST

This May, Breakthrough West will bring together leaders from across health and biotech to explore how scientific and technological advances are moving from theory into real-world impact — and what that means for the future of medicine.

FROM STAT'S EDITORIAL TEAM:

We are about to have more data about human biology than ever before. That is changing how medicines are invented, how they are prescribed, and how patients and physicians interact with unprecedented speed. Medicine has gone from faxes to electronic health records to large language models, from mouse models to organs on a chip to gene editing.

But the biggest — and toughest — change will come when artificial intelligence and other technologies transform the budget-straining process of turning big ideas into actual drugs, upending the economics of one of the world's most challenging businesses. Here, STAT will ask the perennial, trenchant questions among those in the field: Are we there yet? And how much longer? This extends to an array of transformative new technologies from biotech, health tech, and the world of machine learning. Join us as DNA goes digital.

It's not too early to plan for May 2026. Have budget left to spend? Register now and save up to $350.