mRNA Nuclear Clustering Leads to a Difference in Mutant Huntingtin mRNA and Protein Silencing by siRNAs In Vivo
Date: September 19, 2024 Time: 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CEST Title: mRNA Nuclear Clustering Leads to a Difference in Mutant Huntingtin mRNA and Protein Silencing by siRNAs In Vivo Description: Huntington’s disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative ...
Sequence- and Structure-Dependent Cytotoxicity of Phosphorothioate and 2’-O-Methyl Modified Single-Stranded Oligonucleotides
Date: August 29, 2024 Time: 6am PDT / 9am EDT / 3pm CEST Title: Sequence- and Structure-Dependent Cytotoxicity of Phosphorothioate and 2’-O-Methyl Modified Single-Stranded Oligonucleotides Description: Single-stranded oligonucleotides (SSOs) are a rapidly expanding class of therapeutics. Chemical modifications such as the ...
Nucleic Acid Therapeutics: Successes, Milestones, and Upcoming Innovation
Date: July 25, 2024 Time: 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CEST Title: Nucleic Acid Therapeutics: Successes, Milestones, and Upcoming Innovation Description: Nucleic acid-based therapies have become the third major drug class after small molecules and antibodies. The role of ...
A Nucleic Acid Approach to Antibody Therapeutics
Date: July 18, 2024 Time: 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CEST Title: A Nucleic Acid Approach to Antibody Therapeutics Description: Monoclonal antibodies represent a highly successful class of therapeutics that are used to treat complex diseases across a wide ...
Application of hydrophobically conjugated siRNAs for the treatment of dermatological and muscular diseases
Date: July 11, 2024 Time: 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CEST Title: Application of hydrophobically conjugated siRNAs for the treatment of dermatological and muscular diseases Description: This webinar will focus on siRNA delivery to skin and muscle using hydrophobic ...
2023 OTS Paper of the Year Spotlight: A Framework for Individualized Splice-Switching Oligonucleotide Therapy
Date: August 22, 2024 Time: 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CEST Title: 2023 OTS Paper of the Year Spotlight: A Framework for Individualized Splice-Switching Oligonucleotide Therapy Description: Splice-switching antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) could be used to treat a subset of ...
Annual Meeting Poster Awardee Spotlight
Date: June 27, 2024 Time: 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CEST Title: Functional Aptamer Selection for the Low-Complexity Domain of TDP-43 as a Potential Treatment Avenue for ALS Description: Targeting of TAR-DNA Binding Protein-43 (TDP-43), a protein implicated in ...
Branching into RNAi
Date: June 13, 2024 Time: 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CEST Title: Branching into RNAi Description: Our research focuses on the synthetic short-interfering RNAs (siRNAs) that silences the oncogenic mRNA expression of the Glucose Regulated Proteins (GRPs) leading to ...
Antisense approaches for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and recent advances to address DMD brain comorbidities
Date: May 23, 2024 Time: 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CEST Title: Antisense approaches for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and recent advances to address DMD brain comorbidities Description: This presentation will cover the development of ASO-based approaches ...
2023 Annual Meeting Poster Awardee Spotlight: Stan and Moravčík
Date: May 16, 2024 Time: 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CEST Title: Validation lab: allowing standardized in vitro and in vivo experiments for candidate treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy Description: The Validation Lab was established in 2015 with support ...
