Interview with Maureen McKeague, PhD
Maureen McKeague, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Bioengineering Department, Stanford University How did you become interested in the field? I’ve been fascinated with nucleic acids ever since high school biology. In my undergraduate degree, I enjoyed genetics
Congratulations to the Winner of the 2015 OTS Lifetime Achievement Award!
Fritz Eckstein, PhD Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine Dr. Eckstein received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1960 at the University of Bonn in Germany. This was followed by a postdoctoral time at the University of Toronto for 2 years with Prof. H. Baer ...
Interview with Bart Klein
ProQR Therapeutics Property, Head of Intellectual Property How did you become interested in the field? I am a Dutch and European patent attorney with a Masters in Chemical Biology/Molecular Biology from Utrecht University, The Netherlands (Msc. 1988).
2015 Gewirtz Memorial Scholarship Winner: Jana McCaskill, PhD
Jana McCaskill, PhD University of Edinburgh Biography: Jana received her PhD in 2014, working with Nigel McMillan at the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute (Australia). Her doctoral work focused on the development and systemic liposomal delivery of respiratory syncytial virus and Hendra virus targeted siRNAs. ...
2015 OTS Young Investigator Award Winner Frank Rigo, PhD
Frank Rigo, PhD Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Biography: In 2002, Frank completed his undergraduate studies in molecular biology and biochemistry at Marquette University. From 2002-2008, Frank earned his Ph.D. at UCLA in the Biochemistry Department under Harold Martinson. There, he dissected the mechanistic basis for how ...
Interview with Gerald Zon, PhD, FRSC
How did you become interested in the field? I was working in 1981 as an organic chemist at NIH in the former FDA Bureau of Biologics (now Center for Drug Evaluation & Research), and was asked to help clone the gene for human C-reactive protein by making the required hybridization probe—a mixed-sequence 11-mer oligodeoxynucleotide,
Interview with Takenori Shimo, Doctoral Candidate at Osaka University
Takenori Shimo received both his B.S. and M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Osaka University, Japan. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University. His research interests include nucleic acid chemistry, especially modulating splicing by using antisense oligonucleotides.
2014 Gewirtz Memorial Scholarship Winner: Dale Guenther
Dale Guenther University of Idaho Biography: Dale Guenther is a graduate student at the University of Idaho working under the supervision of Dr. Patrick Hrdlicka. Her graduate research centers on the development of energetically activated duplexes, termed Invader probes, for mixed-sequence recognition of dsDNA. These ...
Interview with Paloma H. Giangrande, PhD
Paloma H. Giangrande, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Scientific Advisory Council Member, Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society Giangrande_Photo Dr. Paloma H. Giangrande Paloma H. Giangrande, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at The University
2014 OTS Young Investigator Award Winner Michael Gantier, PhD
Michael Gantier, PhD Monash Institute of Medical Research Biography: Dr.Gantier, was trained as a biological engineer in one of France’s elite schools, l’Université de Technologie de Compiegne, between 1998 and 2002. He completed his 3-year PhD on “The roles of double-stranded RNAs in mammalian cells” ...
