Lifetime Achievement Award

Brett Monia, Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer, Ionis Pharmaceuticals "Pioneering RNA-Targeted Oligonucleotide Therapeutics: A 35-Year Journey" Biography: Dr. Monia is the chief executive officer, a member of the board of directors and a founding scientist of Ionis Pharmaceuticals. His contributions at Ionis include research into ...

John Maraganore, Ph.D.Founding CEO & Director, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 2002-2021Biography:Dr. John Maraganore served as the founding CEO and a Director of Alnylam from 2002 to 2021, where he built and led the company from early platform research on RNA interference through global approval and commercialization of the ...

Cy A. Stein, MD, PhD Cy A. Stein, MD, PhD was born in New York City. He received a BA degree from Brown University (1974) and a PhD in chemistry from Stanford (1978) under Henry Taube (Nobel Laureate, 1983). A career change took him ...

Sudhir Agrawal, D.Phil.Founder and President, Arnay SciencesDr. Agrawal is the founder and President of Arnay Sciences, a life science research company pursuing RNA therapeutics. Dr. Agrawal started his work on antisense in the late eighties in the laboratory of Paul Zamecnik, a pioneer of antisense ...

Frank Bennett, Ph.D. Ionis Pharmaceuticals Dr. Bennett is the executive vice president and chief scientific officer at Ionis Pharmaceuticals and one of the founding members of the company. He is responsible for continuing to advance antisense technology and expanding Ionis drug discovery platform. Dr. ...

Ryszard Kole, PhD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Dr. Kole received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Warsaw, where he studied the role of ribonucleases on cell function. In 1977 he moved to USA ...

Muthiah (Mano) Manoharan, Ph.D Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Muthiah (Mano) Manoharan serves as a Senior Vice President, a Scientific Advisory Board Member, and a Distinguished Research Scientist at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. In 2003, he was the first chemist hired at Alnylam. He and his ...

Marvin H. Caruthers Distinguished Professor of Chemistry University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado Marvin H. Caruthers is a Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A Guggenheim Fellow, Dr. Caruthers received his B.S. in Chemistry from Iowa State University, his Ph.D. ...

Mike Gait, Ph.D Medical Research Council Michael J. Gait obtained a Ph. D. in 1973 in Chemistry from the University of Birmingham UK. From 1973-75 he was Research Associate at M.I.T with H. Gobind Khorana working one gene synthesis. Since 1975 he has been ...