Speaker Profile
PMWC PIONEER AWARD
Ph.D., Nobel Laureate, Professor, UC Berkeley
Biography
Randy W. Schekman is a Nobel laureate and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley. He shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the machinery that regulates vesicle transport—how cells organize, package, and deliver cargo such as proteins and hormones. Cellular Transport: He mapped the fundamental genetic and biochemical pathways of yeast cell transport. These discoveries apply directly to human cells and are used widely in the biotech industry (e.g., producing recombinant insulin).
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 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?
• Judy Faulkner, Epic
• Peter DeVault, Epic
RNA Therapeutics Beyond mRNA: siRNA, ASOs, and snRNA
• 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, UC Berkeley
Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Patient Stratification
• Chair: Ezra Cohen, Tempus
• Gudrun Stengel, Alida Biosciences
• Jarret Glasscock, Cofactor Genomics
• "Phil Febbo, Veracyte
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
