Designing siRNAs for improving their therapeutic applications
Presenter: Dr. Annabelle Biscans (AstraZeneca) Date: January 27th, 2021 Description: Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) have the potential to revolutionize medicine due to their potency, duration of effect, and ability to target previously “undruggable” disease genes. The clinical success of siRNAs is dependent on their ...
Making medicines out of pre-mRNA splicing modulators
Presenter: Isabel Aznarez, Ph.D. Stoke Therapeutics Date: April 29th, 2021 Description: Splicing is the process that edits precursor-messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) to generate the messenger RNA (mRNA) that carries the code from the nucleus to the cytoplasm where the ribosomes will translate it into a ...
