Webinars

Presenter: Grace Chen (Yale School of Medicine) Date: March 25, 2020 Description: Circular RNAs are a newly appreciated class of ubiquitous and abundant RNAs. In the webinar, we will cover biological and chemical approaches to synthesize circular RNAs, how cells distinguish between endogenous and foreign circular RNAs, and properties of circular RNAs ...

Presenter: Robert MacLeod (Ionis Pharmaceuticals) Date: February 26, 2020 Recording of the webinar: Click play to view Presenter Biography Robert MacLeod (Ionis Pharmaceuticals) Dr. MacLeod is currently the Vice President Oncology Research and Development, and Franchise ...

Presenter: Daniel O’Reilly and Joseph Ochaba (Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society) Date: November 19, 2019 Description: With a constantly growing list of oligonucleotide therapies that are entering the clinics, these exciting research molecules-turned-therapeutic strategy are starting to lead the way in treatments for many devastating diseases. At their core, an Oligonucleotide ...

Presenter: Mai Thayer, Amgen, USA Date: October 8, 2019 Description: Oligonucleotides are a quickly evolving modality with strong proof of concept established in the clinic. Despite the clinical success of oligonucleotides, there is still limited understanding of ADME (absorption, disposition, metabolism and excretion) in comparison to other modalities (e.g. ...

Presenter: Günter Mayer, University of Bonn, Germany Date: August 27, 2019 Description: Aptamers are short single-stranded oligonucleotides, selected to interact with target molecules with high affinity and specificity. These characteristics and their versatile applicability, make aptamers universal molecular probes in biotechnological and therapeutic applications. However, the chemical repertoire of ...

Presenter: Andrea Kasinski, Purdue University, USA Date: May 15, 2019 Description: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as powerful regulators of the genome and, through concerted efforts to identify their function and evaluate their ability to alter cell growth in vitro and in vivo, some have gained favor as potential therapeutics. ...