Zheng-Yi Chen

Company: Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Job title: Associate Professor, Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery

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 New Regenerative Combination Therapeutics for Acquired Hearing Loss & Controlling Therapeutic Exposure to the Target in the Cochlea 2:00 pm

Identifying the drug-like combinations for reprogramming in the mature mammalian inner ear Exploring the gene therapy approach for cytotoxic drug-induced hearing loss to regenerate hair cells in the cochlea Optimizing the process to achieve the regeneration of healthy functional hair cells for hearing recovery and controlling the ‘on-off’ switch for the gene therapy once inside…Read more

day: Conference Day 2