Amy Lo | Senior Director and Senior Principal Scientist
Genentech, Inc

Amy A. Lo, MD, MS, is Senior Director of Histopathology and Senior Principal Scientist–Pathologist at Genentech, where she leads strategy for three pathology core laboratories supporting drug discovery and development across multiple therapeutic areas. She also provides pathology expertise to oncology-focused drug development teams. Dr. Lo is board-certified in anatomic and clinical pathology, with subspecialty expertise in gastrointestinal pathology, and is also board-certified in molecular genetic pathology. She brings more than a decade of experience spanning biopharma, academic medicine, and clinical diagnostics. Dr. Lo leads histopathology automation initiatives designed to address both high-throughput and highly customized needs. Her work focuses on reducing staff hands-on time while improving throughput, reproducibility, cost efficiency, and operational scalability. These efforts have expanded support for increasingly complex and growing research needs, including spatial omics. She also develops customized tissue-based assays that inform disease biology, biomarker strategy, therapeutic development, and clinical trial execution. Dr. Lo maintains her clinical expertise through her appointment as an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University.