Professor Eugene Yeo

The 2023 Sydney Brenner Prize of the Academia Europaea

The Academia Europaea are pleased to award A SYDNEY BRENNER Medal for achievements in the Life Sciences to:
Professor Eugene Yeo

The medal is given to honour the best in scholarship and personal achievements within a period of not more than 20 years after obtaining the PhD degree (with allowance for career breaks). The award is given to an individual scholar in the field of molecular biology and related disciplines. The Medal is awarded at the Annual Conference of the Academy and on that occasion the recipient will deliver a ‘Sydney Brenner’ lecture

The Academia Europaea Sydney Brenner Medal was established in 2022 to commemorate Sydney Brenner, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century and one of the founding members of the Academia Europaea.

Professor Yeo will receive the medal and will deliver the accompanying lecture at the annual conference of the Academia Europaea, Munich, on October 10th, 2023.

Mysteries of RNA processing and application to therapeutics

The talk will deal in general about our work in understanding how the myriad of proteins interact with RNA to modulate its metabolism, how defects in RNA processing cause human diseases and how we can leverage our knowledge of RNA biology to create new therapeutics.

Biography

Gene Yeo PhD MBA is a Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), a founding member of the Institute for Genomic Medicine and member of the UCSD Stem Cell Program and Moores Cancer Center. Dr. Yeo has a BSc in Chemical Engineering and a BA in Economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the UCSD Rady School of Management. Dr. Yeo serves as Co-Director of the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program, an Associate Director of a Genetics T32 training program at UCSD and Deputy Scientific Director of Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine in La Jolla.

Website: https://www.yeolab.com