Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Founder and VP Research, Capstan Tx
Biography
Haig Aghajanian, Ph.D., is Co-Founder and Vice President of Research at Capstan, as well as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. His research has focused on the etiology of cardiac disease and cell therapy for the treatment of fibrosis culminating in his recent work published in Nature and Science that served as the inception of Capstan.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2025 Silicon Valley
Track Co-Chairs:
Yael Weiss, Mahzi Tx
Morten Sogaard, Astellas Gene Therapies
- PMWC 2025 Award Ceremony
Pioneer Honoree: James M. Wilson, Gemma Biotherapeutics
Luminary Honoree: Carolyn Bertozzi, Stanford
- Keynote: Bioorthogonal Chemistry, from Basic Science to Clinical Translation
- Carolyn Bertozzi, Stanford
- Keynote: The Promise of Genetic Medicines Unless You're Too Poor or Too Rare
- James M. Wilson, Gemma Biotherapeutics
- Barriers in Gene Therapy
Chair: Timothy Hunt, Alliance for Regenerative Medicine
- Tay Salimullah, 4BIO Capital
- James M. Wilson, Gemma Biotherapeutics
- Courtney Silverthorn, Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium (BGTC) - Next-Generation Delivery Systems for Gene Therapies (PANEL)
Chair: James M. Wilson, Gemma Biotherapeutics
- Mathieu Nonnenmacher, Voyager Therapeutics
- Kevin Friedman, Kelonia Therapeutics
- Kunwoo Lee, GenEdit
- Haig Aghajanian, Capstan Therapeutics
- Beyond the Genome: Harnessing Epigenetics in Rare Disease Treatment (PANEL)
Chair: Charles Gersbach, Duke
- Prashant Mali, UCSD
- Nadav Ahituv, UCSF
- Blythe Sather, Tune Therapeutics
- Fyodor D Urnov, Berkely University
- Navigating the Regulatory Landscape for Gene and Cell Therapies (PANEL)
Chair: Yael Weiss, Mahzi Tx
- Rob Califf, FDA
- Courtney Silverthorn, Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium (BGTC)
- Ben Dewees, Kyverna Therapeutics
- Paul Kruszka, GeneDx
- AI-driven Improvements in Gene and Cell Therapy (PANEL)
Chair: John Androsavich, Ginkgo Bioworks
- Francois Vigneault, Shape Therapeutics
- Eeshit Dhaval Vaishnav, Sequome
- Sam Sinai, Dyno Therapeutics
- Kira Radinsky, mana.bio
