Speaker Profile
M.D., Ph.D., Founder and CEO, HELP Tx Co., Lt
Biography
Dr. Eugene J. Wang is the CEO and founder of HELP Therapeutics established in 2016. A gold medalist during his university studies, Dr. Wang completed his research at the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University (jiangsu Province Hospital, ranked among top 20 hospitals in China). He earned his PhD from the University of Hong Kong and his MD from Capital Medical Unviersity.
Talk
A New Era in Heart Failure Treatment
A New Era in Heart Failure Treatment: Delivering on the Promise of iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocyte Therapy
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Catriona Jamieson, UCSD
Opening talk
• Catriona Jamieson, UCSD
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Judy Faulkner, Epic
• Alexis C. Komor, UCSD
What’s Next at Epic?
• Peter DeVault, Epic
Modified mRNA, siRNA, ASOs
• Chair: Alexis C. Komor, UCSD
• Niren Murthy, UC Berkeley
• Gene Yeo, UCSD
• Reuben Harris, UT Health San Antonio
Stem Cell-Targeted Therapeutics: Small Molecules & Biologics
• Chair: Catriona Jamieson, UCSD
• Irving L. Weissman, Stanford
Space-Omics & Stem-Cell Adaptation
• Chair: Catriona Jamieson, UCSD
• Alysson Muotri, UCSD
In Vivo Gene Therapies
• Chair: Gene Yeo, UCSD
• Mark A Kay, Stanford
• David Schaffer, Berkeley
Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Patient Stratification
• Chair: Ezra Cohen, Tempus
• Eitan Ruppin, NIH
• David Ledbetter, Florida State University
• Ludmil Alexandrov, UCSD
Bioprinting Transplantable Liver: mRNA-Driven Multi-Lineage Differentiation from Autologous iPSCs
• Jiwu Wang, The Scintillon Institute
A New Era in Heart Failure Treatment: Delivering on the Promise of iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocyte Therapy
• Eugene Wang, Help Therapeutics
Closing Talk
• Catriona Jamieson, UCSD
