HMS Initiative for RNA Medicine Videos
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The HMS Initiative for RNA Medicine brings together leading investigators in the field to pursue new lines of inquiry into non-coding RNA. View the Initiative’s series of virtual seminar presentations and other videos below.
"miRNAs as biomarkers for ovarian cancer screening and diagnosis"
Kevin M. Elias, MD
Director, Gynecologic Oncology Laboratory
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
Harvard Medical School
Given April 6, 2021
"Mechanisms Controlling Translation and mRNA Decay"
Olivia S. Rissland, PhD
Assistant Professor
RNA Bioscience Initiative
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Given March 16, 2021
"Protein-RNA interactions in vitro predict in vivo binding and regulation"
Christopher Burge, PhD
Professor of Biology, Director of Computational and Systems Biology PhD Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Given March 2, 2021
"Insights into mRNA lifecycle revealed by true end-to-end sequencing of single RNA molecules"
Zissimos Mourelatos, MD
Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Given February 23, 2021
"ncRNA in DNA damage signaling"
Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna, PhD
Principal Investigator, IFOM (The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology) in Milan, Italy
IGM (Institute of Molecular Genetics) & CNR (National Research Council)
Pavia, Italy
Given February 2, 2021
RNA Technology Showcase: NanoString Technologies and Bio-Techne
"Enabling spatial mapping and quantification of RNA in situ with RNAscope, miRNAscope, and BaseScope"
Emily Martersteck
Field Application Scientist, ACD, a Bio-Techne brand
Given January 19, 2021
"Revealing Hidden Biology with Spatial, High-Plex Transcriptional Profiling on the NanoString GeoMx Platform"
Sarah Warren, PhD
Senior Director, Translational Science, R&D, NanoString Technologies
Given January 19, 2021
"Processing, conformation and function of circular and long ncRNAs"
Ling-Ling Chen, PhD, MBA
Principal Investigator, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Given January 12, 2021
"Role and mechanism of action of miRNAs in skeletal development and dysplasias"
Tatsuya Kobayashi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Given January 5, 2021
"Small RNAs in animal biology: a structural perspective"
Ian MacRae, PhD
Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
Given December 15, 2020
"Taming the Helix: The First 40 Years of RNA Therapeutics"
Tod Woolf, PhD
Executive Director, Technology Ventures Office
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Given December 8, 2020
RNA Collaborative Seminar Series
"Targeting telomerase RNA in degenerative diseases"Suneet Agarwal, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Co-Program Leader for the Stem Cell Transplant Center
Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Given November 18, 2020
"New biology and therapeutics from RNA structure and modifications"
Eric Miska, PhD
Deputy Director of the Gurdon Institute
Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Cambridge
Given November 17, 2020
"Environmental Health and the RNA – Influences of environmental chemicals on extracellular RNAs and the epitranscriptome"
Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD
Leon Hess Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Given October 13, 2020
"The host shapes the microbiome via fecal microRNA: Oral miR-30d in the feces of MS patients suppresses EAE by expanding Akkermansia muciniphila"
Howard Weiner, MD
Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Given September 29, 2020
"A small RNA based innate immune system"
Gregory J. Hannon, PhD, FRS, FMedSci, FAACR
Royal Society Wolfson Research Professor
Director, CRUK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge
Given September 15, 2020
RNA Technology Showcase: Somagenics and RealSeq Bioscience
"An RT-qPCR Method for Distinguishing isomiRs"
Brian Johnston, PhD
President and CEO, somagenics
Given September 1, 2020
"RealSeq-AC, an efficient, very low-bias method for small-RNA Sequencing"
Sergio Barberan, PhD
CEO, RealSeq Bioscience
Given September 1, 2020
RNA Collaborative Seminar Series
“Prospects for hyper-individualized RNA medicines”
Tim Yu, MD, PhD
Attending Physician & Researcher, Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Associate Member, Broad Institute
Given July 29, 2020
“A specialized post-transcriptional program in chemoresistant, quiescent cancer cells”
Shobha Vasudevan, PhD
Assistant Geneticist at the Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Given July 29, 2020
"Exploring the dark matters in the human brain neurons"
Xianjun Dong, PhD
Director of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Given June 30, 2020
"Epitranscriptome: The Role of RNA Methylation in Stress and Viral Defense"
Eric Greer, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Given June 16, 2020
"Long Noncoding RNAs Interact with Bromodomain Proteins to Regulate Development"
Allan C. Mullen, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Given June 2, 2020
"Regulation of gene expression in the brain by imprinted non-coding RNAs"
Amanda Whipple, PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Given May 19, 2020
"Phase separation and nucleosome compaction as intertwining mechanisms of polycomb function during differentiation and development"
Robert Kingston, PhD
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Chief of Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Given May 12, 2020
"Circulating miRNA Signature Predicts Health Risks Associated with Cancer and Spaceflight and COVID-19"
Afshin Beheshti, PhD
NASA Ames Research Center - Given March 31, 2020
The Institute for RNA Medicine at the BIDMC Cancer Center is making and translating RNA discoveries into novel therapeutics and diagnostics through the work of world-class scientists.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Pathologist Andrew Beck, MD, has developed C-Path, short for Computational Pathologist, a computer algorithm that yields highly detailed and accurate information about cancerous tissue.