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Nobel Prize Awarded to 2024 RNA Symposium Speaker Drew Weissman

Nobel Prize Awarded to 2024 RNA Symposium Speaker Drew Weissman

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. 1  Read the full press release. Drew Weissman, M.D., Ph.D., will be featured as a keynote speaker at the Center for RNA Biomedicine’s 8th annual RNA Symposium in March, 2024 at the University of…

John Prensner charts a new path toward global standardization for ribosome profiling (Ribo-Seq)
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John Prensner charts a new path toward global standardization for ribosome profiling (Ribo-Seq)

Rooted firmly in his lab suite tucked deep within the core of the Pentagon-esque Medical Sciences Research Building (MSRB) complex on the University of Michigan campus, John Prensner, M.D., Ph.D., is focused on bringing to light an area of genomic investigation involving a hive of “worker bees” called noncanonical ORFs (open reading frames), that play…

Two RNA Biomedicine experts are elected to the National Academy of Sciences

The election of professors Janet L. Smith and Arul Chinnaiyan, both members of the Center for RNA Biomedicine Strategic Advisory Board, to the National Academy of Sciences is an outstanding validation of the excellence of the RNA research at the University of Michigan. Members are elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of…

A call for direct sequencing of full-length RNAs to identify all modification

For most organisms, DNA sequences are available, but the complete RNA sequences are not. Here, we call for technologies to sequence full-length RNAs with all their modifications. Article co-authored by Dr. Vivian Cheung, member of our Center. Publication: Alfonzo, J.D., Brown, J.A., Byers, P.H. et al. A call for direct sequencing of full-length RNAs to identify all…

2018-2019 RNA Seminars

  4th annual Toronto RNA Enthusiasts Day (TREnD) 7/30/19 (flyer) Keynote speaker: Dr. Tracy Johnson (UCLA) SickKids Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning (686 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario) For more information visit: trendrna.com 2nd Conference on Biomotors, Virus Assembly and Nanobiotechnology 7/29/19  (flyer) Ohio State University, Cleveland OH For more information visit: rnanano.osu.edu/Guo/Biomotor2019/Biomotor2019.html ENCODE 2019: Research Applications and…

Over 550 RNA fans attend our 5th Annual Symposium, March 25-26, 2021

With over 550 participants, this two-day symposium virtually gathered the vibrant RNA research community from the University of Michigan (U-M), the US, and around the world. The symposium opened with remarks by Nils Walter, co-director of the U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine, who reminded the attendees of the importance of RNA research for society, as…