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
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, USA -
Daniel 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
Speakers and Session Chairs
Aijun Wang
Chancellor's Fellow Professor and Vice Chair of Surgery and of Biomedical Engineering;
University of California - Davis, USA
Alexander Johnson-Buck
Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry;
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA
Ambro Van Hoof
Professor of Molecular Genetics;
The Ohio State University, USA
Ana Luisa Duran-Meza
Assistant Project Scientists;
The University of California, Los Angeles
Andrei A. Korostelev
Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute, Chan Medical School;
University of Massachusetts, USA
Bill Lu
Professor, School of Engineering;
Santa Clara University, USA
Cheemeng Tan
Professor of Biomedical Engineering;
University of California - Davis, USA
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
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
Associate Professor, College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences;
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Elisa Franco
Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Bioengineering;
University of California - Los Angeles, USA
Emanuele Cocucci
Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy;
The Ohio State University, USA
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 Hong
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of Florida, USA
Fei Liu
PI of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School, USA
Gaurav Sahay
Professor, College of Pharmacy; Co-director of the Center for Innovative Drug Delivery and Imaging
Oregon State University, USA
Gene Yeo
Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Co-Director Bioinformatics & Systems Biology Graduate Program;
University of California - San Diego, USA
Guizhi (Julian) Zhu
Ara Garo Paul Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy;
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA
Guramrit Singh
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics;
The Ohio State University, USA
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
On behalf of Dr. Peixuan Guo;
Graduate Student;
The Ohio State University, USA-
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
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
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
G. Thomas Passananti Professor, Vice Chair for Research, 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, USA
Randy Carney
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering;
University of California - Davis, USA
-
Robin Stanley
Senior Investigator, Signal Transduction Laboratory/Nucleolar Integrity Group;
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA
-
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
Associate Professor, Chan Medical School
University of Massachusetts, USA
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
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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