PANDA 2026 PAN - Asian Data and AI Collaboration in Biomedicine

Day 1 (whole day) and Day 2 (morning)
The Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Academic Complex | The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong
168 Victoria Road
Mount Davis, Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong SAR

Day 2 (afternoon)
City University of Hong Kong
83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

The Opportunity

Biomedical discovery and AI-enabled medicine are now inseparable from data — and from the cross-border collaboration needed to make that data representative, secure, and trustworthy. Asian biomedical data remains underrepresented in the datasets that train today's AI models, propagating bias and limiting clinical relevance for the region's population.

No single hospital, biobank, or country can independently accumulate enough patient samples to reach statistical significance. This data is precious, non-renewable, and held across a limited number of entities — making cross-border, privacy-preserving collaboration not an option but a necessity.

The Inaugural Pan-Asian Biomedical AI Symposium convenes leading biobanks, academic medical centers, AI governance experts, and industry partners to build a durable, multinational framework supporting responsible, scalable, privacy-preserving biomedical research, anchored at the UChicago Hong Kong Campus. Five threads run through the symposium: federated learning, secure data sharing, data harmonization standards, ethical AI governance, and collaborative frameworks for rare disease and other precious, limited-entity data.

Organizing Committee

Symposium Chairs

• Dr. Siwei Chen, Assistant Professor, Human Genetics, the University of Chicago
• Dr. Le Lu, Head of the Medical & Health AI Lab, Ant Healthcare
• Dr. Samuel Volchenboum, M.D., Ph.D. — Professor of Pediatrics, the University of Chicago
• Dr. Yu Wang, Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Digital Medicine, City University of Hong Kong
• Dr. Xinge Yu, Professor, Associate Vice President, City University of Hong Kong
• Dr. Junhan Zhao, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics, the University of Chicago

Honorary Advisors

• Dr. Michael Mengsu Yang, Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences; Senior Vice-President (Innovation and Enterprise), City University of Hong Kong
• Ms. Elizabeth O’Neill — Executive Director (Interim) of The Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Academic Complex | The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong; Associate Dean for Booth Global Degree Programs and Executive Director of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Robert Rothman, ’77, London Campus

Arrangements Chairs

• Angela Siu, Senior Assistant Director, UChicago Faculty and Campus Events
• Lauren Chan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Chicago

Student Chairs

• Kaicheng U, PhD student at Tri-I Computational Biology and Medicine at Cornell University
• Jennifer Jie Yu, PhD student at Tri-I Computational Biology and Medicine at Cornell University
• Zeyu Tang, PhD student at Tri-I Computational Biology and Medicine at Cornell University
• Sophia Meixuan Zhang, Research Associate, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Wanying Mo, PhD student at  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
   

Fireside Chat with Editors

Moderated by Prof. Junhan Zhao (PLOS Digital Health; Frontiers in Medicine)  ·  Dr. Lauren Chan (AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellow)

Editors: Jianfei Zhao (NEJM AI)  ·  Lei Tang (Cell)  · Ophelia Yashan Bu (Nature Sensors)  Junlin Hou (Nature Medicine)  ·  Hongling Zhou (GigaScience)  ·  Xinge Yu (Science Advances)  ·  Le Lu (IEEE TPAMI & TMI)  
 

Academic partners include the National University of Singapore, the National Center for Child Health and Development (Japan), Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Genome Institute, The University of Hong Kong, and National Taiwan University.

The symposium is supported by the UChicago Provost's Global Faculty Award, City University of Hong Kong-Institute of Digital Medicine, Ant Group, and True Health Medical Technology.
 

2-Day Program

*Kindly note that no parking spaces are available at the UChicago Hong Kong Campus.

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