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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        

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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 Dr. Peixuan Guo
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);

Kirill Afonin
Co-chair
Kirill Afonin

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

Karin Musier-Forsyth
Co-chair
Karin Musier-Forsyth

Professor;
Dept. of Chem. & Biochem.
Ohio Eminent Scholar,
The Ohio State University,
Columbus, USA












Eric Westhof
Co-chair
Eric Westhof

Professeur(e) Emérite
Institut de biologie moléculaire
et cellulaire du CNRS;
    Université de Strasbourg,      
Strasbourg, France

Sarah Woodson
Co-chair
Sarah Woodson

T.C. Jenkins Professor;
Dept. of Biophysics;
Johns Hopkins University,      
Baltimore, USA


Scientific Committee:

To be updating

Speakers and Session Chairs (without any particular order)

Constantly Updating

  • Aijun Wang

    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, USA

  • Johnson-Buck

    Alexander Johnson-Buck


    Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry;




    University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA

  • Korostelev

    Andrei A. Korostelev


    Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute, Chan Medical School;





    University of Massachusetts, USA

  • Sood

    Anil 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, USA

  • Lu

    Bill Lu


    Professor, School of Engineering;


    Santa Clara University, USA

  • Kohrer

    Caroline Köhrer


    Senior Vice President;


    Alltrna

  • Cheemeng Tan

    Cheemeng Tan


    Professor of Biomedical Engineering;


    University of California - Davis, USA

  • Daniel Binzel

    Daniel Binzel


    Research Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy;

    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Deepak Koirala

    Deepak Koirala


    Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences;

    University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

  • Elisa Franco

    Elisa Franco


    Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Bioengineering, Molecular Biology Institute;

    University of California - Los Angeles, USA

  • Emanuele Cocucci

    Emanuele Cocucci


    Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy;



    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Eric Westhof

    Eric Westhof


    Professeur(e) Emérite;




    Université de Strasbourg, France

  • Chung

    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, USA

  • Liu

    Fei Liu


    Professor of School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, School of Biomedical Engineering;




    Wenzhou Medical University, China

  • Yeo

    Gene Yeo


    Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Co-Director Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program;


    University of California - San Diego, USA

  • Holland Cheng

    Holland Cheng


    Professor of Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, College of Biological Sciences




    University of California - Davis, USA

  • Jaimie Stewart


    Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Samueli School of Engineering;

    University of California - Los Angeles, USA

  • Jane Jackman


    Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences;

    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Jeffrey Kieft


    Professor and Executive Director;



    New York Structural Biology Center, USA

  • Jin Yu


    Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy;



    University of California - Irvine, USA

  • Jinbiao Ma


    Distinguished Professor and Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences;


    Fudan University, China

  • Joanna Sztuba-Solinska

    Joanna 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

    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, USA

  • Kirill Afonin

    Kirill Afonin


    Professor, Department of Chemistry, Klein College of Science;


    University of North Carolina – Charlotte, USA

  • Kristin Koutmou


    Associate Professor of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts;

    University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA

  • Lela Lackey


    Assistant Professor of Genetics and Biochemistry, Center for Human Genetics;


    Clemson University, USA

  • Marco Weinberg


    Senior Vice President, Head of Research at ReCode Therapeutics;




    ReCode Therapeutics

  • Mingxu You


    Associate Professor of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences;



    University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA

  • Nikolay Dokholyan

    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

    Peixuan Guo


    Endowed Chair & Professor;





    The Ohio State University, USA

  • RajgopalGovindarajan

    Rajgopal Govindarajan


    Chair of the Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology, Professor of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology;

    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Randy Carney


    Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering;



    University of California - Davis, USA

  • Redmond Smyth


    Group Leader, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IBMC);



    University of Strasbourg, France

  • Robin Stanley

    Robin Stanley


    Senior Investigator, Signal Transduction Laboratory/Nucleolar Integrity Group;

    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA

  • 
                        Sarah Woodson

    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, USA

  • Shujun Liu


    Professor in the Department of Medicine, Faculty Research Staff at MetroHealth Medical Center, Member of Case Comprehensive Cancer Center;

    Case Western Reserve University, USA

  • Soma Dhakal


    Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Chemistry, College of Humanities and Sciences;


    Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

  • Steven Jay


    Associate Professor, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, A. James Clark School of Engineering;


    University of Maryland, USA

  • Tae Jin Lee


    Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, McGovern Medical School;

    The University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth), USA

  • Tianmin Fu

    Tianmin Fu


    Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Chan Medical School



    University of Massachusetts, USA

  • Wayne Miles

    Wayne Miles


    Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, College of Arts and Sciences;


    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Wei Feng


    Professor, State Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecules;


    Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

  • Wen Zhang


    Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, School of Medicine;


    Indiana University, USA

  • Wenqiang Yu


    Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Genomics and Epigenomics at the Institutes of Biomedical Sciences;

    Fudan University, China

  • Ya-ming Hou

    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, China

  • Yun‑Xing Wang


    Acting Chief - Center for Structural Biology, Head - Protein‑Nucleic Acid Interactions Section;

    Center for Cancer Research of NIH, USA

  • Xiangxi 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:

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