Wan Du

Company: Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School

Job title: Physician Scientist

Seminars:

Panel Discussion & Live Audience Q&A: Is 2025 the Year of Curing Deafness? Reviewing Past Failures, Recent Successes & Future Opportunities for Inner Ear Disorders Therapeutics 8:00 am

Discussing the back-to-back positive results for gene therapies, large investments from key pharma into the inner ear disorders field, and uncovering the opportunities for 2024 and 2025 Leveraging lessons from past failures and understanding their downfalls Understanding the current challenges with novel targets, preclinical models replicating the inner ear structures, less invasive delivery mechanisms and…Read more

day: Conference Day 1

Uncovering the Therapeutic Power of Gene Therapy/Genome Editing Therapy Technologies for Genetic Hearing Loss in Animal Models 2:00 pm

Preclinical result to demonstrate the rescue of auditory function and hair cell survival by a single administration of AAV-TMPRSS3 gene therapy in aged mice Developing efficient and specific genome editing targeting microRNA mutation with high safety profile preserved long-term hearingRead more

day: Conference Day 2