From oncology to aging: the therapies rewriting disease at the mechanism.
SynBioBeta 2027 May 3-6, San Jose, California

Karen
Akinsanya
Schrodinger
President, R&D – Therapeutics

Reagan
Jarvis
Anocca AB
CEO, Co-founder

Christopher
Arendt
Takeda
CSO, Head of Research

Cynthia
Hong
Novartis
Dir., Search & Evaluation

Wendell
Lim
University of California, San Francisco
Professor

Daniyal
Hussain
GSK
Exec. Dir., Tech BD

Sarah Lynn
Tao
CSL Behring
Sr. Dir., S&E; Ig TA & Tech Lead

Ziwei
Liang
Pfizer
Innovation Fellow & Director

Brendon
Boot
Skin2Neuron
CEO

Alan
Tomusiak
Permanence Bio
CEO and Founder

Human Health & Longevity
Medicine is shifting from managing disease to reprogramming it.
In oncology, that means engineered cells and synthetic circuits built to find and destroy tumors that chemotherapy and targeted drugs still cannot durably clear. In cardiometabolic disease, it means one-time gene edits and engineered therapies aimed at the mechanism itself, where GLP-1s and statins leave non-responders on lifelong management.
In immunology, it means precision rather than blanket suppression, correcting immune dysfunction instead of muting it. In neurology, it means gene therapy, iPSC-derived cell replacement, and neural interfaces confronting the highest unmet need in medicine, where nearly every approved drug treats symptoms rather than neuronal loss.
And underneath all of it, cellular reprogramming and stem-cell-derived replacement are targeting aging biology directly, not just the diseases it produces.
This theme follows the logic across every organ system, and presses on what matters: which of these are becoming medicine, and which are still biology?
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Founder

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