Dr. Alan M. Gewirtz Memorial Scholarship

Mitsugu Yanagidaira, MD, PhD Tokyo Medical and Dental University Talk Title: Heteroduplex Oligonucleotides: A Platform for Enhanced Efficacy and Improved Safety of Antisense Oligonucleotides Mitsugu Yanagidaira, MD, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He received his ...

Sai Pallavi Pradeep University of Connecticut Talk Title: Developing Next-Generation Peptide Nucleic Acids for Antigene Therapy Sai Pallavi Pradeep earned her B.Sc. in Chemistry, Zoology, and Microbiology from Bangalore University and her M.Sc. in Applied Microbiology from Vellore Institute of Technology in India. Following ...

Cristina Hofman, PhD Candidate UT Southwestern Medical Center “Nuclear Argonaute:miRNA complexes recognize target sequences within chromatin-associated RNA and silence gene expression” Biography: Cristina received her B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Trinity University and joined David Corey’s lab at the University of Texas ...

Sarah E. Pierce, Ph.D. Broad Institute “An approach to disease-agnostic therapeutic genome editing” Biography: Sarah Pierce is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. David Liu's lab at the Broad Institute. She completed her PhD in Cancer Biology at Stanford University in the labs of Dr. ...

Jillian Belgrad, M.D./Ph.D. Candidate, MS3/GS4 Khvorova Lab, RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School   Biography: Jillian Belgrad is a sixth-year MD/PhD student in the RNA Therapeutics Institute at UMass Chan Medical School. Before joining UMass Chan, Jillian graduated from Colgate University with a ...

Hassan H. Fakih, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Associate, Prof. Anastasia Khvorova Research Group RNA Therapeutics Institute | UMASS Chan Medical School Biography: Hassan is a Postdoctoral Associate in the lab of Prof. Anastasia Khvorova at the RNA Therapeutics Institute at UMass Chan Medical School. His research focuses on ...

Krystal Johnson, PhD UT Southwestern Medical Center Biography: Krystal joined David Corey’s Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) to pursue her Ph.D. in 2018 after finishing her B.S. in Biochemistry at UT Austin. She was awarded a NIGMS F31 Diversity Fellowship for her ...

Ronald Buijsen, PhD Leiden University Medical Center Biography: Dr. Buijsen has expertise in antisense oligonucleotide (AON) design and optimization in cell models and animal models using a wide variety of molecular, immunohistochemical and

Lucy F. Yang, PhD University of Washington Biography: Lucy F. Yang, PhD received her Bachelor's in Bioengineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in after conducting research under Prof. K. Dane Wittrup and Prof. Scott R. Manalis. She earned her PhD at the ...

Ronald Buijsen, PhD Leiden University Medical Center Biography: Dr. Buijsen has expertise in antisense oligonucleotide (AON) design and optimization in cell models and animal models using a wide variety of molecular, immunohistochemical and