2021 Late Discovery Paper Of The Year Award – Winners
An mRNA Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2 – Preliminary Report Phase I/II study of COVID-19 RNA vaccine BNT 162b1 in adults The need for platforms to develop vaccines rapidly and efficiently was clearly highlighted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The first vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 was approved only ...
2021 Basic Paper Of The Year Award – Winners
Investigating the pharmacodynamic durability of GalNAc-siRNA conjugates Givosiran, a GalNAc-conjugated siRNA, which was recently approved on the market, displays sustained knock-down over month-long periods. The following paper investigates the reasons behind those impressive pharmacodynamic properties. After looking into various mechanisms related to stability, accumulation or ...
2021 Mary Ann Liebert Publishers, Inc. Young Investigator Award Winner Alex Garanto, PhD
Alex Garanto, PhD Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc) Biography: Dr. Alejandro (Alex) Garanto is currently an Assistant Professor at the Departments of Pediatrics and Human Genetics of the Radboudumc in Nijmegen (the Netherlands). He obtained his PhD from the University of Barcelona in 2011 ...
2021 Dr. Alan M. Gewirtz Memorial Scholarship Award for Postdoctoral Fellows and Junior Industrial Professionals Winner Kotaro Yoshioka, MD, PhD
Kotaro Yoshioka received his PhD in 2016 from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (Japan), where he has developed a unique double-stranded ASO technology, “Heteroduplex oligonucleotide (HDO)” in the laboratory
2021 Dr. Alan M. Gewirtz Memorial Scholarship Award for Graduate Students Winner Mr. Hassan Fakih
Mr. Hassan Fakih Department of Chemistry, McGill University Biography: Hassan obtained his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the American University of Beirut in 2016. Then, he Joined the Sleiman Lab at the Chemistry department of McGill University to pursue his doctorate degree. His work ...
OTS 2020 List of Poster Winners
13 O6-Alkylguanine DNA Alkyltransferase Mediated Disassembly of a DNA Tetrahedron William Copp, PhD Candidate, Concordia University 31 Vitamin Lipid Nanoparticles Enable Adoptive Macrophage Transfer for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Sepsis Xucheng Hou, Graduate Student, The Ohio State University 35 The Global Effects of TNRC6 ...
2021 OTS Lifetime Achievement Award Winner C. Frank Bennett, PhD
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. ...
2020 OTS Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Ryszard Kole, PhD
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 ...
2020 OTS Young Investigator Award Winner Maja M. Janas De Angelis, PhD
Maja M. Janas De Angelis, PhD, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Advancing the Safety and Reach of RNAi Therapeutics Biography: Maja Janas De Angelis, PhD, DABT is currently an Associate Director, Investigative Toxicology, at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry and Biochemistry ...
2020 Dr. Alan M. Gewirtz Memorial Scholarship Award Winner Annabelle Biscans, PhD
Annabelle Biscans, PhD, AstraZeneca Designing New Chemically Engineered siRNAs for Extrahepatic Delivery Biography: Annabelle Biscans obtained her PhD in chemistry from the University of Montpellier (France) in 2015, where her work focused on the chemical synthesis of RNA prodrugs for the development of new ...
