Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Professor, UCSD
Biography
Gene Yeo is a Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UC San Diego. He earned degrees in Chemical Engineering and Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from MIT, and an MBA from the UCSD Rady School of Management. His research focuses on RNA processing in development and disease, leveraging iPSC and murine models. His lab pioneered in vivo RNA targeting with CRISPRCas systems and developed enhanced CLIP technologies for large-scale proteinRNA interaction mapping. Dr. Yeo serves on the editorial boards of Cell Reports and Cell Research, has received multiple prestigious awards, and is a co-founder of several RNA-focused biotechnology 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
