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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:

Speakers and Session Chairs

  • Aijun Wang

    Aijun Wang


    Chancellor's Fellow Professor and Vice Chair of Surgery and 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

  • Hoof

    Ambro Van Hoof


    Professor of Molecular Genetics;


    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Meza

    Ana Luisa Duran-Meza


    Assistant Project Scientists;


    The University of California, Los Angeles

  • Korostelev

    Andrei A. Korostelev


    Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute, Chan Medical School;


    University of Massachusetts, USA

  • Lu

    Bill Lu


    Professor, School of Engineering;


    Santa Clara University, USA

  • Cheemeng Tan

    Cheemeng Tan


    Professor of Biomedical Engineering;


    University of California - Davis, USA

  • Chen Gao

    Chen Gao


    Assistant Professor, College of Medicine;


    University of Cincinnati, USA

  • Dan Shu


    Research Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy;


    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Daniel Binzel

    Daniel Binzel


    Research Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy;


    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Dawn Chandler


    Professor, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology Program;


    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Deepak Koirala

    Deepak Koirala


    Associate Professor, College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences;


    University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

  • Elisa Franco

    Elisa Franco


    Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Bioengineering;


    University of California - Los Angeles, USA

  • Emanuele Cocucci

    Emanuele Cocucci


    Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy;


    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Chung

    EunJi Chung

    Associate Professor of Biomedical & Chemical Engineering & Materials Science; Dr. Karl Jacob Jr. and Karl Jacob III Early-Career Chair


    University of Southern California, USA

  • fan

    Fan Hong

    Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry



    University of Florida, USA

  • Liu

    Fei Liu


    PI of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor


    Harvard Medical School, USA

  • Sahay

    Gaurav Sahay


    Professor, College of Pharmacy; Co-director of the Center for Innovative Drug Delivery and Imaging


    Oregon State University, USA

  • Yeo

    Gene Yeo

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

    University of California - San Diego, USA

  • Guizhi (Julian) Zhu

    Guizhi (Julian) Zhu


    Ara Garo Paul Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy;


    University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA

  • Guramrit Singh

    Guramrit Singh


    Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics;


    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Holland Cheng

    Holland Cheng


    Professor, 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 & Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry;


    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Jeffrey Kieft


    Professor;


    University of Colorado Anschutz, USA

  • Jin Yu


    Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and 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

  • Juli Feigon

    Professor of Biochemistry, Member of National Academy of Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry;
    University of California - Los Angeles, USA

  • Kai Jin

    Kai Jin


    On behalf of Dr. Peixuan Guo;
    Graduate Student;

    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Karin Musier-Forsyth

    Karin Musier-Forsyth


    Professor & Ohio Eminent Scholar, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry;


    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Kay Choi


    Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry;


    Indiana University - Bloomington, USA

  • Kiran Kondabagil


    Professor;


    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

  • 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

  • Lalit Sehgal


    Associate Professor, College of Medicine


    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Lela Lackey


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


    Clemson University, USA

  • Li-Chun Tu


    Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology;


    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Margaret Bohmer

    Margaret Bohmer


    On behalf of Dr. Peixuan Guo;
    Graduate Student;


    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Marina Dobrovolskaia


    Director of Operations,
    Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory


    National Institutes of Health, USA

  • Mingxu You


    Associate Professor of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences;


    University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA

  • Minsun Song


    Postdoc research fellow;


    City of Hope - Duarte, USA

  • Mohtadin Hashemi


    Assistant Professor, Department of Physics


    Auburn University, USA

  • Nikolay Dokholyan

    Nikolay Dokholyan


    G. Thomas Passananti Professor, Vice Chair for Research, 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

  • 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, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences;


     Johns Hopkins University, USA

  • Shalini Oberdoerffer


    Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression;


    National Cancer Institute, USA

  • Shipra Agrawal


    Associate Professor, Renaissance School of Medicine;


    Stony Brook University, USA

  • Shujun Liu


    Professor, Department of Medicine;


    Case Western Reserve University, USA

  • Soma Dhakal

    Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director, Department of Chemistry;


    Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

  • Steven Jay


    Associate Professor, Fischell Department of Bioengineering;


    University of Maryland, USA

  • Tae Jin Lee


    Assistant Professor, McGovern Medical School;


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

  • Tamar Schlick


    Professor of Chemistry, Mathematics & Computer Science;


    New York University, USA

  • Thomas Webster


    Professor



    Hebei University of Technology, China

  • Tianmin Fu

    Tianmin Fu


    Associate Professor, Chan Medical School


    University of Massachusetts, USA

  • Wayne Miles

    Wayne Miles


    Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics;


    The Ohio State University, USA

  • Wen Zhang


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


    Indiana University, USA

  • Wenqiang Yu


    Professor of Cheung Kong Scholarship;


    Fudan University, China

  • Xiangxi Wang


    Professor, State Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecules;


    Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

  • Xiaoning Bi

    Professor of Physiology, Daljit and Elaine Sarkaria Endowed Professor in Neuroscience;


    Western University of Health Sciences, USA

  • Ya-ming Hou

    Ya-ming Hou


    Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology;


    Thomas Jefferson University, USA

  • Yibin Feng

    Professor & Director, Co-Director of the HKUMed Centre of Integrative Medicine, School of Chinese Medicine;

    The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Yin Chen

    Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology, R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy


    The University of Arizona, USA

  • Yun‑Xing Wang

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

    Center for Cancer Research of NIH, USA

  • Zihe Rao


    Professor & Head, Laboratory of Structural Biology, Tsinghua Medical School;


    Tsinghua University, 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



Acknowledgment of Financial Sponsors:

1. National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences



Scientific Sponsors:

1. The Ohio State University

2. Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine, OSU

3. Center for RNA Biology, OSU

4. College of Pharmacy, OSU

5. International Society of RNA Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine

6. International Association of Biomedical Sciences



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