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Conference of RNA, Exosome and Nanomedicine
------ 5th International Conference on Biomotors, Virus Assembly, and RNA Nanobiotechnology
Hosted by:
International Society of RNA Nanotechnology & Nanomedicine (ISRNN)
The International Association of Biomedical Sciences (IABS)
Co-sponsered by:
Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine
AND
Center for RNA Biology
The Ohio State University




Date: December 15-17th, 2025;
Location: Los Angeles, California;
Hotel: Doubletree By Hilton Los Angeles – Rosemead
Address: 888 Montebello Blvd, Rosemead, CA 91770
Registration Here
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We are pleased to announce the Conference of RNA, Exosome and Nanomedicine. This is
the 5th installment of the biennial International Conference on Biomotors, Virus Assembly, and RNA Nanobiotechnology series since 2017.
Due to the RNA field arriving as the third milestone in pharmaceutical drug development, we extended the previous conference series to focus on RNA for this conference. Since exosomes contain many RNAs inside and RNA can display on the surface of exosomes for the purpose of RNA delivery, exosome is another focus of this conference. This interdisciplinary conference includes leading scientists and engineers working in the diverse fields of chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology, microbiology, cell biology, materials, and nanotechnology to participate. We invite you to join us in this exciting conference featuring interdisciplinary talks from many fields of groundbreaking research.
To ensure the promotion of high quality and effective academic communication, the conference will be limited to 300 attendees and 50 invited speakers that will be selected from the current more than 200 candidates recommended by members of the Scientific Committee. Registration will be accepted first come first-served basis till the 300 slots are filled. All members of the ISRNN (International Society of RNA Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine
https://www.myisrnn.org/
)
and IABS (International Association of Biomedical Sciences
https://ia-bs.org/
) will provide a $100-discount on registration fee and a waiver for the publication fee on journal
RNA NanoMed
for the year of 2025 (see journal web site
https://rnananomed.org/
and its papers indexed by Pubmed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22RNA+NanoMEd%22%5BJournal%5D&sort
).
Conference Chair
Peixuan Guo
Endowed Chair & Professor;
College of Pharmacy;
College of Medicine, OSU;
Fellow of National Academy of Inventors;
Editor in Chief of RNA NanoMed;
Director, Center for
RNA Nanobiotech & Nanomed;
President, Intl. Soc. RNA Nanotech. & Nanomed. (ISRNN);
Co-chair
Kirill Afonin
Professor;
Dept. of Chemistry;
Vice President, Intl. Society
of RNA Nanotech & Nanomed
University of North Carolina
– Charlotte, USA
Co-chair
Karin Musier-Forsyth
Professor;
Dept. of Chem. & Biochem.
Ohio Eminent Scholar,
The Ohio State University,
Columbus, USA
Co-chair
Eric Westhof
Professeur(e) Emérite
Institut de biologie moléculaire
et cellulaire du CNRS;
Université de Strasbourg,
Strasbourg, France
Co-chair
Sarah Woodson
T.C. Jenkins Professor;
Dept. of Biophysics;
Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, USA
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To ensure the promotion of high quality and effective academic communication, the conference will be limited to 300 attendees and 50 invited speakers that will be selected from the current more than 200 candidates recommended by members of the Scientific Committee. Registration will be accepted first come first-served basis till the 300 slots are filled. All members of the ISRNN (International Society of RNA Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine https://www.myisrnn.org/ ) and IABS (International Association of Biomedical Sciences https://ia-bs.org/ ) will provide a $100-discount on registration fee and a waiver for the publication fee on journal RNA NanoMed for the year of 2025 (see journal web site https://rnananomed.org/ and its papers indexed by Pubmed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22RNA+NanoMEd%22%5BJournal%5D&sort ).

Peixuan Guo
Endowed Chair & Professor;
College of Pharmacy;
College of Medicine, OSU;
Fellow of National Academy of Inventors;
Editor in Chief of RNA NanoMed;
Director, Center for
RNA Nanobiotech & Nanomed;
President, Intl. Soc. RNA Nanotech. & Nanomed. (ISRNN);

Kirill Afonin
Professor;
Dept. of Chemistry;
Vice President, Intl. Society
of RNA Nanotech & Nanomed
University of North Carolina
– Charlotte, USA

Karin Musier-Forsyth
Professor;
Dept. of Chem. & Biochem.
Ohio Eminent Scholar,
The Ohio State University,
Columbus, USA
Eric Westhof
Professeur(e) Emérite
Institut de biologie moléculaire
et cellulaire du CNRS;
Université de Strasbourg,
Strasbourg, France

Sarah Woodson
T.C. Jenkins Professor;
Dept. of Biophysics;
Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, USA
Scientific Committee:
-
Sarah Woodson
Professor;
Johns Hopkins University, USA Kirill Afonin
Professor;
University of North Carolina – Charlotte, USADaniel Binzel
Research Assistant Professor;
The Ohio State University, USA-
Peixuan Guo
Endowed Chair & Professor;
The Ohio State University, USA -
Karin Musier-Forsyth
Professor;
The Ohio State University, USA Aijun Wang
Professor;
University of California, Davis, USA-
Eric Westhof
Professeur(e) Emérite;
Université de Strasbourg, France
To be updating
Speakers and Session Chairs (without any particular order)
Constantly Updating
Aijun Wang
Chancellor's Fellow Professor of Surgery and of Biomedical Engineering, Vice Chair of Department of Surgery and Department of Biomedical Engineering;
University of California - Davis, USAAlexander Johnson-Buck
Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry;
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USAAndrei A. Korostelev
Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute, Chan Medical School;
University of Massachusetts, USAAnil K. Sood
Professor; Vice Chair for Translational Research in the Departments of Gynecologic Oncology and Cancer Biology; Co-director of the Center for RNA Interference and Non-Coding RNA
MD Anderson Cancer Center, USABill Lu
Professor, School of Engineering;
Santa Clara University, USACaroline Köhrer
Senior Vice President;
AlltrnaCheemeng Tan
Professor of Biomedical Engineering;
University of California - Davis, USADaniel Binzel
Research Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy;
The Ohio State University, USADeepak Koirala
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences;
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USAElisa Franco
Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Bioengineering, Molecular Biology Institute;
University of California - Los Angeles, USAEmanuele Cocucci
Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy;
The Ohio State University, USA
-
Eric Westhof
Professeur(e) Emérite;
Université de Strasbourg, France
EunJi Chung
The Dr. Karl Jacob Jr. and Karl Jacob III Early-Career Chair and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science;
University of Southern California, USAFei Liu
Professor of School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, School of Biomedical Engineering;
Wenzhou Medical University, ChinaGene Yeo
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Co-Director Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program;
University of California - San Diego, USAHolland Cheng
Professor of Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, College of Biological Sciences
University of California - Davis, USAJaimie Stewart
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Samueli School of Engineering;
University of California - Los Angeles, USAJane Jackman
Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences;
The Ohio State University, USAJeffrey Kieft
Professor and Executive Director;
New York Structural Biology Center, USAJin Yu
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy;
University of California - Irvine, USAJinbiao Ma
Distinguished Professor and Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences;
Fudan University, ChinaJoanna Sztuba-Solinska
Sr Principal Scientist;
Merck Inc
Juli Feigon
Professor of Biochemistry, Member of National Academy of Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry;
University of California - Los Angeles, USA-
Karin Musier-Forsyth
Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences;
The Ohio State University, USA
Kay Choi
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The College of Arts & Sciences;
Indiana University - Bloomington, USAKirill Afonin
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Klein College of Science;
University of North Carolina – Charlotte, USAKristin Koutmou
Associate Professor of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts;
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USALela Lackey
Assistant Professor of Genetics and Biochemistry, Center for Human Genetics;
Clemson University, USAMarco Weinberg
Senior Vice President, Head of Research at ReCode Therapeutics;
ReCode TherapeuticsMingxu You
Associate Professor of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences;
University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA-
Nikolay Dokholyan
G. Thomas Passananti Professor, Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, College of Medicine;
Pennsylvania State University, USA
-
Peixuan Guo
Endowed Chair & Professor;
The Ohio State University, USA Rajgopal Govindarajan
Chair of the Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology, Professor of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology;
The Ohio State University, USARandy Carney
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering;
University of California - Davis, USARedmond Smyth
Group Leader, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IBMC);
University of Strasbourg, France-
Robin Stanley
Senior Investigator, Signal Transduction Laboratory/Nucleolar Integrity Group;
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA -
Sarah Woodson
T.C. Jenkins Professor, Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences;
Johns Hopkins University, USA Shalini Oberdoerffer
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression;
National Cancer Institute of NIH, USAShujun Liu
Professor in the Department of Medicine, Faculty Research Staff at MetroHealth Medical Center, Member of Case Comprehensive Cancer Center;
Case Western Reserve University, USASoma Dhakal
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Chemistry, College of Humanities and Sciences;
Virginia Commonwealth University, USASteven Jay
Associate Professor, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, A. James Clark School of Engineering;
University of Maryland, USATae Jin Lee
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, McGovern Medical School;
The University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth), USATianmin Fu
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Chan Medical School
University of Massachusetts, USAWayne Miles
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, College of Arts and Sciences;
The Ohio State University, USAWei Feng
Professor, State Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecules;
Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ChinaWen Zhang
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, School of Medicine;
Indiana University, USAWenqiang Yu
Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Genomics and Epigenomics at the Institutes of Biomedical Sciences;
Fudan University, China-
Ya-ming Hou
Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology;
Thomas Jefferson University, USA Zihe Rao
Professor & Head, Laboratory of Structural Biology, Tsinghua Medical School;
Tsinghua University, ChinaYun‑Xing Wang
Acting Chief - Center for Structural Biology, Head - Protein‑Nucleic Acid Interactions Section;
Center for Cancer Research of NIH, USAXiangxi Wang
Professor, State Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecules;
Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Local host committee chair: Brandon Li, LA
Local host committee co-chairs:
Dr. Daniel Binzel
Research Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
Kai Jin
Graduate Research Assistant, The Ohio State University
Webmaster: Kai Jin
Graduate Research Assistant, The Ohio State University
Financial Sponsors:
To be updating
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