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 CRISPR/Cas systems and developed enhanced CLIP technologies for large-scale protein–RNA 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 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Catriona Jamieson, UC San Diego
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck (J. Craig Venter Visionary Award · Nobel Laureate)
• Jay Bradner, Amgen (Pioneer)
• Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Luminary)
• Randy Schekman, UC Berkeley (Nobel Laureate, Pioneer)
Featured Speakers
• Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck
• Randy Schekman, UC Berkeley
• Jay Bradner, Amgen
• Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Alexis C. Komor, UC San Diego
• Nicole Gaudelli, GV
• Rachel Haurwitz, Caribou Bio
• Gene Yeo, UC San Diego
• Timothy Yu, Boston Children's / Harvard
• Shicheng Guo, Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals
• Mark A. Kay, Stanford
• Niren Murthy, UC Berkeley
• Ben Deverman, Broad Institute
• Stanley Crooke, n-Lorem / Ionis
Programming Protein Fate
Molecular glues, degraders, and induced proximity crossing into medicines.
Genome Editing Beyond the First Wave
Base, prime, and CRISPR-enabled editing moving from correction to clinic.
RNA Editing, Splice Modulation & Programmable RNA
RNA editing, ASOs, and splice modulation with chemistry already reaching patients.
In Vivo Delivery & Vector Engineering
AAV, LNP, and next-generation vectors that decide what is treatable.
From N-of-1 to Platform
Evidence, CMC, regulation, and access for individualized genetic medicines.
PMWC Hall of Impact
Previous Speakers Include
Nobel laureates, technology founders, regulators, CEOs and scientific pioneers who have taken the PMWC stage.
