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Enhancing Somatic Variant Interpretation with CKB FLEX: Northwestern Medicine’s Integration Strategy

Enhancing Somatic Variant Interpretation with CKB FLEX: Northwestern Medicine’s Integration Strategy

Thursday, September 25th, 2025 | 11am EDT

Join Genomenon and Northwestern Medicine for an exclusive webinar exploring the transformative impact of integrating CKB FLEX into their existing workflow. 

Northwestern Medicine has long relied on Genomenon’s Cancer Knowledgebase (CKB) BOOST to accelerate and improve clinical variant interpretation. Now with the adoption of CKB FLEX, they are taking curation efficiency and flexibility to the next level - gaining direct access to variant data to support pipeline automation, advanced analytics and scalable reporting without leaving their system. 

This webinar will take you behind the scenes on the implementation journey, from the strategic decision to upgrade to hands-on deployment and early wins. You will hear directly from the Northwestern team on the operational and technical drivers behind this transition and how they are aligning CKB FLEX with their future expansion goals. 

Whether you are considering CKB FLEX or exploring a phased approach to integrating curated content to improve your oncology workflows, this webinar will provide you with valuable lessons from the field. 

You Will Learn:
  • Why Northwestern Medicine chose to integrate CKB FLEX within their existing workflows
  • Implementation tips and change management insights 
  • Key goals that the Northwestern team hopes to achieve through this transition

Who should attend: 
  • Clinical lab directors, Bioinformatician leads, Senior scientists
  • Oncology researchers
  • Anyone looking to modernize their variant interpretation needs with scalable, evidence-based solutions

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SPEAKERS
Cara Statz
Manager, Oncology Curation

Cara has nearly 10 years of experience in clinical genomics, and has been contributing her expertise to interpretation of literature-based data related to genomic variants and targeted therapies in oncology and curation of those data into the Cancer Knowledgebase (CKB) since 2015. In addition to her curation-related activities, Cara regularly liaises with users to provide additional insights into the capabilities of CKB. She received her PhD from UCONN in genetics and genomics and has prior experience as a clinical research associate, and leverages her clinical and research expertise in her work on CKB, with the ultimate goal of enabling better patient outcomes.

Lucas Santana dos Santos, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Director of Bioinformatics

Lucas is the Director of Bioinformatics/Assistant Professor at Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine. As an experienced Bioinformatics Scientist with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry, his background includes experience in Sequence Analysis, DNA Sequencing, Bioinformatics, and Python, and holds Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in Biomedical Informatics / Bioinformatics from theUniversity of Pittsburgh.

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