Organizers

Mikiko SIOMI, PhD

Ada YONATH, PhD, Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009
Title: Combating resistance to antibacterial and anti-parasite ribosomal antibiotics?

 Chuan HE, PhD, Professor, University of Chicago, USA
 Title: DNA epigenetic biomarkers in cancer diagnosis and prognosis

 Erik SONTHEIMER, Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School
 Title: Genetic Interference and Genome Editing by Neisseria meningitidis Cas9

 Jin-Soo KIM, PhD, Professor, Seoul National University, South Korea
 Title: CRISPR RNA-guided Genome Editing in Human Stem Cells, Animals, and Plants

 Muthiah MANOHARAN, PhD

 Howard CHANG, MD, PhD, Professor, Stanford University, US
 Title: Genome Regulation by Long Noncoding RNAs

 Judy LIEBERMAN, MD, Professor, Harvard Medical School, USA
 Title: The Silent Treatment: Targeted gene knockdown

 Troels KOCH, PhD, VP and Head of Research,Roche, Denmark / Switzerland
 Title: New perspectives in LNA therapeutics

 Jian-Sheng SUN, PhD, HDR, Professor, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
 Title: Signal interfering DNA (siDNA): from an original concept to a promising a first-in-class DNA repair inhibitor against advanced stage cancer in patients

 Mark EDBROOKE, PhD, Director, AstraZeneca, UK
 Title: Therapeutic nucleic acids including antisense oligonucleotides – significant progress towards a viable drug platform for tackling intractable targets in oncology

 Organizers

 Cocktail Reception

 Elizabeth TRAN, PhD

 Craig C. Mello, PhD, Professor, University of Massachusetts, 2006 Nobel Prize Winner, USA
 Title: RNA-guided inheritance

 Mikiko SIOMI, PhD, Professor, the University of Tokyo, Japan
 Title: PIWI-interacting RNAs in animals

 Robert HOLT, PhD, Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada
 Title: Towards personalized T cell receptor therapeutics: Interrogating the T cell repertoire

 Muthiah MANOHARAN, PhD, Senior Vice President, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, USA
 Title: RNAi Therapeutics in Human Disease using GalNAc-siRNA Conjugates: How sweet it is to work with sugars

 Mark EDBROOKE, PhD

 Stanley CROOKE, MD, PhD, Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board lonis Pharmaceuticals, USA
 Title: Antisense Technology: Past, Present, Future

 Yi-Tao YU, PhD, Professor, University of Rochester, USA
 Title: RNA-guided RNA Modifications

 Elizabeth TRAN, PhD, Associate Professor,Purdue University, USA
 Title: Long Non-Coding RNAs Regulate Gene Expression Through Formation Of RNA-DNA Hybrids

 Jan Gorodkin, PhD, Professor,University of Copenhagen, Denmark
 Title: Computational analysis of RNA structure and interactions in genomic sequence

 Ekkehard LEBERER, PhD, Professor, Senior Director, Sanofi, Germany
 Title: MicroRNA therapeutics for targeting the pathways of human disease

 Craig C. Mello, PhD, Professor, University of Massachusetts, 2006 Nobel Prize Winner, USA