Speaker Profile
M.D., Ph.D., Deputy director, Translational Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Cent
Biography
Eytan Ruppin has served as a professor of Computer Science Medicine since 1995, conducting computational multidisciplinary research spanning computational neuroscience, natural language processing, machine learning and systems biology. In 2014, he joined the University of Maryland as director of its Center for Cioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB). In 2018, he moved to the NCI where he founded and is chief of its Cancer Data Science Lab (CDSL). His research is focused on developing new computational approaches for advancing transcriptomics-based precision oncology. Eytan is a member of the editorial board of Molecular Systems Biology, a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), a recipient of the NCI Director award, the NIH director award and the Delano awards and is a co-founder of a few precision medicine startup companies.
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
