Piotr Grodzinski

Director of NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer at NIH;
 Cancer Nanotechnology (Lancet 2014 & Cancer Res. 2014);
National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA

Christophe Lavelle

Research Scientist, Editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Life Science journal & Editor of Methods journal;
DNA and chromatin biophysics (Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2014 & Nucleic Acids Res. 2015);
CNRS & Sorbonne Universities at Paris, France

Peixuan Guo

Professor & Director of Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine;
Phi29 DNA packaging motor and RNA nanotechnology (Nat Nano
technol. 2010, Nat Nanotechnol. 2011, Nano Today 2015 & ACS Nano 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA

Lindsay W. Black

Professor;
Pioneer in T4 DNA packaging motor (PNAS 2014 & Virology 2015);
University of Maryland, USA

Eckhard Jankowsky

Professor;
Single molecule biophysics on RNA helicases (Nat. Chem Biol. 2017);
Case Western Reserve University, USA

Xing-Jie Liang

Professor & Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Biophysics Reports journal;
Nanobiotechnology (Nat  Nanotechnol. 2016 & ACS Nano 2016);
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, CAS, China

Alex Sparreboom

Professor;
Drug transporters and clinical cancer pharmacology (Nat Commun. 2016);
The Ohio State University, USA

Charles Bell

Assoc. Professor;
Crystal Structure and mechanism of viral DNA packaging motors (Biochemistry 2015);
The Ohio State University, USA

Yizhou Dong

Asst. Professor;
Nanobiotechnology (Nanoscale 2017, Cell Res. 2017 & Nat Biomed Eng. 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA

Kathleen Boris-Lawrie

Professor & Department Chair;
Studies of retroviruses that cause cancer and AIDS (J Mol Biol. 2016);
University of Minnesota, USA

Ian Grainge

Assoc. Professor;
Mechanism of bacterial DNA translocation motor (Sci Rep. 2016);
The University of Newcastle, Australia

Wei Feng

Professor;
Molecular motor-mediated intracellular transport (J Mol Biol. 2016);
Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China

Rajgopal Govindarajan

Assoc. Professor;
Drug transporters and pancreatic cancer (Cancer Lett. 2015);
The Ohio State University, USA

Carlo Montemagno

Professor;
Nanobiotechnology (Small 2017);
University of Alberta, Canada

Qunxin She

Assoc. Professor;
Archaeal genomics and global regulatory mechanisms (Nucleic Acids Res. 2016);
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Yao-Gen Shu

Researcher;
Single molecule biophysic studies of biomolecules (J Phys Conde Matt. 2017);
Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS, China

Junghae Suh

Assoc. Professor;
Re-programming viruses as biomolecular devices (ACS Nano 2016 & Sci Rep. 2016);
Rice University, USA

Hui Wei

Professor;
Nanobiotechnology and functional nanomaterials (Anal Chem. 2016);
Nanjing University, China

Christopher Yengo

Assoc. Professor;
Structural mechanism of molecular motor (PNAS 2015);
Pennsylvania State University, USA

Dong Men

Assoc. Professor;
Self-assembled protein nanostructure (ACS Nano. 2015);
Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China

Mark Bathe

Assoc. Professor;
Nucleic acid nanotechnology, quantitative biology and biophysics (Science 2014 & Science 2016);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Ian J. Molineux

Professor, Editor of Virology journal;
Motors for viral DNA and genome ejection (Science 2013, Nature 2014 & PNAS 2015);
University of Texas at Austin, USA

Carlos Catalano

Professor;
Molecular mechanisms of Lamda bacteriophage DNA packaging motor (PNAS 2013 & Biochemistry 2017);
University of Colorado, USA

Naoki Sugimoto

Professor & Director of Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research (FIBER);
Biophysical Chemistry of Nucleic Acids (Sci Rep. 2016);
Konan University, Japan

David Jeruzalmi

Professor;
 X-ray crystallography for DNA biology studies (Nucleic Acids Res. 2016);
City College of New York, USA

Feng Li

Professor;
 Viral nanotechnology and virus-based probes for imging and smart delivery (JACS 2011 & ACS Nano 2015);
Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China

Zongqiang Cui

Professor;
 Virus-host interactions in live cells and animals (Nano Lett. 2016 & ACS Nano 2016);
Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China

Kirill Afonin

Asst. Professor;
 Dynamic RNA nanostructures and immunological nucleic acids (ACS Nano 2015 & Nano Lett. 2016);
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Xiaoting Zhang

Assoc. Professor;
 RNA nanotherapeutics (ACS Nano 2017);
University of Cincinnati, USA

Yuri Lyubchenko

Professor;
 Strucutural genomics and protein-DNA interactions (Sci Rep. 2015);
University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA

Anil K. Sood

Professor;
 Ovarian and breast cancer research (Nat Rev Cancer 2015);
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Kevin Raney

Professor;
DNA and RNA helicase (J Biol Chem. 2016);
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA

Ning Fang

Assoc. Professor;
Single molecule and nanoparticle imaging (JACS 2014 & Sci Rep. 2015);
Georgia State University, USA

Liqun (Andrew) Gu

Assoc. Professor;
Single molecule biosensing and nanobiotechnology (Nat Nanotechnol. 2011 & Nat Nanotechnol. 2012);
University of Missouri, USA

Jia Geng

Professor;
Single-molecule biophysics and nanopore (ACS Nano 2013 & Nature 2014);
Sichuan University, China

Gino Cingolani

Professor;
Nucleocytoplasmic transport, virus assembly, architecture of viral genome ejection/packaging motors (Nat Commun. 2017);
Thomas Jefferson University, USA

Thomas Schmittgen

Professor;
Exosomes and non-coding RNA (Sci Rep. 2016);
University of Florida, USA

Sarah Woodson

Professor;
Ribosome assembly, RNA folding and dynamics (PNAS 2014 & PNAS 2016);
 Johns Hopkins University, USA

Steve Harvey

Professor;
 Mechanism of DNA packaging in viruses (J Phys Chem B. 2016);
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Fred Antson

Professor;
Protein-nucleic acid interactions (PNAS 2015 & Nucleic Acids Res. 2016);
 University of York, UK

Elena Orlova

Professor;
Bacteriophage assembly (PNAS 2015 & Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2015);
 University of London, UK

Ulrich F. Keyser

Professor;
Single molecule study of membrane transport (Nat Nanotechnol. 2016 & ACS Nano 2017);
 University of Cambridge, UK

Yale E. Goldman

Professor & Member of National Academy of Sciences;
Structure and mechanics of molecular motors (PNAS 2017 & Biophys J. 2017);
  University of Pennsylvania, USA

Smita Patel

Professor;
DNA replication and transcription (Cell Rep. 2014, Nat Commun. 2015 & Cell 2015);
 Rutgers University, USA

James M. Berger

Professor & Member of National Academy of Sciences;
Mechanisms of DNA and RNA-dependent motor proteins and assemblies (Nature. 2015 & Cell 2015);
 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA

Meni Wanunu

Assoc. Professor;
Single-molecule biophysics, nanopores & DNA/RNA sequencing (Nucleic Acids Res. 2015, Nano Lett. 2016 & ACS Nano 2017);
 Northeastern University, USA

John Kasianowicz

Professor;
Single-molecule sensing, viral infection and protein secretion (Anal Chem. 2016 & JACS 2016);
 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA

Zhengyi Zhao

Project Manager;
RNA nanotechnology and Phi29 dsDNA packaging motor (ACS Nano 2013 & Small 2016);
 Nanobio Delivery Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. USA

Fengmei Pi

Project Manager;
RNA Nanotechnology and drug delivery (J Virol. 2016);
 Nanobio Delivery Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. USA

Min Chen

Asst. Professor;
Membrane protein for nanopore sensing (ACS Nano 2015 & Anal Chem. 2015);
 University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Haichen Wu

Professor;
Biological nanopore for single-molecule sensing (JACS 2011 & Anal Chem. 2016);
 Institute of Chemistry, CAS, China

Di Xia

Senior Investigator;
Membrane protein and crystallography (Sci Rep. 2016);
 National Cancer Institute, USA

Farzin Haque

Director of Research;
Nanopore and RNA nanotechnology (Nano Today 2012, ACS Nano 2012 & Biomaterials 2015);
 P&Z Biological Technology LLC.,
NJ, USA

Shaoying Wang

General Manager;
Biological nanopore for single-molecule sensing (ACS Nano 2013 & Biomaterials 2017);
 P&Z Biological Technology LLC.,
NJ, USA

Mario Vieweger

Postdoctoral Researcher;
Single-molecule RNA spectroscopy
(J Biophys. 2015);
 The Ohio State University, USA

Andrew Laszlo

Postdoctoral Researcher;
Single-molecule studies of DNA and RNA motors using nanopores
(Nat Biotechnol. 2015 & Methods 2016);
 University of Washington, USA

Emil Khisamutdinov

Asst. Professor;
Nucleic acid nanotechnology (Adv. Mater. 2016 & Nucleic Acids Res. 2017);
 Ball State University, USA

Besik Kankia

Senior Research Scientist;
DNA and RNA quadruplexes for nanotechnology (Sci Rep. 2015, Biopolymers. 2015 & Biophys J. 2016);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Deqiang Wang

Professor;
Single molecule nanopore DNA and protein sequencing (Sci Rep. 2016 & Nanotechnology 2017);
 Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, CAS, China

Chuanbin Mao

Professor;
Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology (Nat Mater. 2015 & Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2017);
  University of Oklahoma, USA

Saurabh Raj

Postdoctoral Researcher;
RNA and RNA/DNA helicases in single molecule assembly (Methods 2016);
 CNRS and École Normale Supérieure at Paris, France

Aleksei Aksimentiev

Professor;
Nanopore transport, structural DNA nanotechnology, chromatin (ACS Nano 2016 & Nat. Commun. 2016);
  University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, USA

Janusz Bujnicki

Professor, Exec. Editor of Nucleic Acids Res. & Scientific advisor to European Commission;
Structure of RNA and RNP complexes (Nat. Commun. 2014 & Nucleic Acids Res. 2016);
  International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Poland

Hui Li

Postdoctoral Researcher;
RNA nanotechnology, RNA therapeutics and RNA biology (Nano Today 2015 & Adv Mater. 2016);
  University of California, San Francisco, USA

Richard Lease

Research Scientist;
Regulatory RNA structure, function and application (ACS Synth Biol. 2017);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Li Wu

Professor;
Mechanisms of HIV replication and pathogenesis (Nat Med. 2016 & J Virol. 2016);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Hanbin Mao

Professor;
Single-molecule chemistry and biosensing (JACS 2017 & Nat. Nanotechnol. 2017);
  Kent State University, USA

Anita Hopper

Professor;
Intracellular trafficking of tRNAs (PNAS 2013 & Mol. Cell. Biol. 2015);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Lakmal Jayasinghe

Director of nanopore research;
Chemistry and platforms of Oxford Nanopore Technologies (Nat. Nanotechnol. 2009 & BioRxiv 2016);
  Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd, UK

Steven Qian

Assoc. Professor;
Free Radical Biology and Cancer Therapy (FRBM 2016 & Redox Biology 2017);
  North Dakota State University, USA

Jun Yu

Professor;
Genomic and bioinformatics (Genomics Proteomics Bioinforma. 2016);
  Beijing Insititute of Genomics, CAS, China

Shahid M. Nimjee

Asst. Professor;
Nucleci acids as therapeutics (Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol. 2017);
  The Ohio State University, USA

William Carson

Professor;
Nanobiotechnology for cancer immunotherapy (Nanomedicine 2017);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Robert Lee

Professor;
Nanobiotechnology for drug delivery (Mol Pharm. 2016);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Carlos Castro

Assoc. Professor;
Nucleic acid nanotechnology and DNA-based devices for biophysics (PNAS 2015 & ACS Nano 2017);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Shan-Lu Liu

Professor;
Viral infection and viral cell-to-cell transmission (J Biol Chem. 2017);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Sharyn Baker

Professor & Chair of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry;
Tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance in acute leukemias (Blood 2013 & Cancer Cell 2015);
  The Ohio State University, USA

David Bisaro

Professor & AAAS Fellow;
RNA-mediated antiviral defenses against plant geminiviruses (J of virology 2016);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Mitch Phelps

Assoc. Professor;
Anti-cancer drugs development and extracellular vesicles (J Extracell Vesicles. 2017);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Venkat Gopalan

Professor;
Structure and mechanism of action of ribonuclease P (Nucleic Acids Res 2016);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Jianhua Yu

Assoc. Professor;
Cancer immunotherapy (Immunity 2015 & ACS Nano 2016);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Deliang Guo

Assoc. Professor;
Tumor metabolism and oncogenic signaling transduction (Cancer Cell. 2015, Cell Rep. 2016 & Clin Cancer Res. 2016);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Jianxun Lin

Senior Manager;
Single molecule sequencing and nanobiotechnology (Phys. Rev. Lett. 2010 & Nature Comm. 2015);
  BGI-Research, China

Daniel Binzel

Postdoctoral Researcher;
RNA Nanoparticle development and delivery (RNA 2016 & Mol. Therapy 2016);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Hua Zhu

Assoc. Professor;
Muscular dystrophy, stem cell protection for treatment of ischemic heart diseases, molecular mechanisms of corneal wound healing (Acta Biomater. 2015 & J Biol Chem. 2015);
  The Ohio State University, USA

Haibo Hu

Chief Executive Officer (CEO);
RNA nanotechnology based platform for next generation targeted drug delivery and disease diagnosis;
  Nanobio Delivery Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. USA

Chad Bennett

Director of Chemistry – Drug Development Institute & Medicinal Chemistry Shared Resource;
Organic chemist and accomplished pharmaceutical professional in medicinal and process chemistry research;
  The Ohio State University, USA

Terence Williams

Assoc. Professor;
DNA damage response pathways and novel mechanisms of radiosensitization (Int J Oncol. 2017 & Clin Cancer Res. 2017);
  The Ohio State University, USA