Vincent DiGiacomo

Director, Therapeutic Innovation Jorna Therapeutics

Dr. Vincent DiGiacomo is a co-founder and Vice President of Translation at Jorna Therapeutics with expertise in human pathobiology and conducting large screening campaigns to identify therapeutic agents. Coming from a background in small molecule drug design, he has worked across several major disease areas and in the fields of structural biology and protein/mutation modeling. Throughout his career, Dr. DiGiacomo has acquired a deep knowledge of cell signaling, system-level disease processes, and RNA-based therapies, leveraging this experience to develop therapeutics utilizing biochemical, cell-based, and animal models of human disease.

Seminars

Wednesday 30th July 2025
Round Table Discussion: Limiting Off-Target Effects by Ensuring Specific Payload Delivery with Highly-Specific Guide RNA to Prioritize Patient Safety
3:00 pm

• Utilizing transcriptomic data to assess peripheral sequences and empirically monitor off-target edits

• Designing guide RNA for maximum durability and specificity to limit toxicity and immunogenicity

• Determining safety thresholds and acceptable levels of off-target editing

Thursday 31st July 2025
Panel Discussion: Uncovering Differentiated Targets, Exploring Editing in a Wider Range of Diseases & Identifying Patients Who Could Benefit from RNA Editing
2:30 pm

• Identifying differentiated target sequences using human genomics data and AI

• Exploring editing ceilings and limitations of various targets

• Elucidating treatable diseases and identifying patients with the suitable genotype who could benefit from treatment

Vincent DiGiacomo