2021 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Virtual Symposium

Getting the message: How elucidation of messenger RNA formation empowered RNA therapeutics

In honor of Lynne Maquat and Joan Steitz

for the discovery of fundamental pathways and mechanisms that ensure accurate RNA splicing and quality control of gene expression involving RNA.

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Webinar ID: 971 5250 1679
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Opening Remarks

George Q. Daley, MD, PhD
Dean of Harvard Medical School
Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine

Moderator

Karen Adelman, PhD
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School

Presentations

Phillip Sharp, PhD
Institute Professor, Koch Institute and Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
RNA Condensates in Transcription and RNA Splicing

Joan Steitz, PhD
Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale University School of Medicine
Viral Noncoding RNAs: New Functions, New Structures

Lynne E. Maquat, PhD
J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair, Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics
University of Rochester Medical Center
Nonsense-mediated mRNA Decay and Human Disease: Guardian and Executor of Gene Expression

Eugene Yeo, PhD
Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
University of California San Diego
RNA binding proteins as regulators, drugs and drug targets

Melissa J. Moore, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, Platform Research
Moderna Therapeutics
RNA as Medicine