On wired Health Summit in Boston on September 9, We hosted CRISPR, some leading experts in the fields of whole genome sequencing, vaccines, and more, as well as a series of eye-opening conversations and keynotes. If you can’t join us in person, don’t worry; you can watch them here.
From 2025 Breakthrough Award winner David Liu to Hyundai CEO Stepháne Bancel, cable health speakers have insight into the next steps in gene editing, cancer treatment and many other cutting-edge topics. Neurosurgeon and CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta also joined us, discussing chronic pain and his new book, It doesn’t have to hurt: Your guide to painless life.
The next cable health event will be held April 17 in London. Meanwhile, get stuck at the Boston Summit below.
Correct genetic errors with CRIS
Treatment for genetic diseases such as sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia is difficult to design, but the ongoing CRISPR clinical trials offer new hope for patients. Cable executive editor Hemal Jhaveri discusses how new genetic editing tools can address mutations in pathogenic genes that cause thousands of diseases.
Create a brain on a computer
Over the past two decades, MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden has invented novel tools to map and control the brain. Now, he is building the world’s first computer simulation. In this keynote on wired health, he talks about how the invention can revolutionize AI, unlock new therapies for neurological diseases, and even help better understand the human condition.
The Rise of Agetech
From digital brain training to at-home screening devices, technology is changing how people aged 50 and older live while managing diseases like dementia and chronic diseases. AARP CEO Myechia Minter-Jordan talks with Cable Executive Editor Brian Barrett about Agetech’s commitment, a thriving lifespan economy, and how startups can innovate to help us thrive as we age.
Commitment to Whole Genome Sequencing
From the UK to the United Arab Emirates, governments across the country have launched whole-genome sequencing projects nationwide. Harvard geneticist George Church and Orchid founder and CEO Noor Siddiqui talked with cable worker Emily Mullin about how to use whole-genome sequencing to prevent genetic diseases.
Use light to treat cancer, mental illness, and more
In this keynote, Mary Lou Jepsen, former head of technology at Google and Facebook (now chairman and founder of OpenWater), presented an exclusive preview of her new invention: a portable modular device designed to combine ultrasound, holograms and cutting edge physics to kill cancer tumors and other diseases.
Win the Cancer War
Cancer care still relies on slow, expensive procedures developed decades ago. Fluid biopsy is changing – Replace the CT scan and surgical biopsy with a single blood test that can detect cancer early and speed up treatment. Helmy Eltoukhy, co-founder and CEO of Helmy Health, sat down with wired health curator João Medeiros to discuss how precision oncology can reshape the cancer patient experience and how mobile biopsy can quickly become part of routine health care.
Cancer vaccine revolution
What’s next for the company to develop the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine in record time? Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel spoke with Wired’s Brian Barrett about the exciting work of biotech companies on personalized mRNA cancer therapies and other promising cancer treatments. Bancel responded Trump administration’s recent anti-MRNA rhetoric.
It doesn’t have to hurt: a conversation with Sanjay Gupta
More than 52 million people worldwide suffer from chronic pain every day. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent and Emmy Award-winning neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta talks with Wired Health curator João Medeiros about his new book and the best scientific support methods to treat pain.
