Organizing Committee

Committee Co-Chairs

Annemieke Aartsma-Rus, PhD

Leiden University Medical Center
Professor

Keith Gagnon, PhD

Southern Illinois University
School of Medicine
Associate Professor

Committee Members

C. Frank Bennett, PhD

Ionis Pharmaceuticals
Senior Vice President of Research

David Corey, PhD

UT Southwestern Medical Center
Professor

Masad Damha, PhD, FCIC

McGill University
Professor

Hassan Fakih, PhD

RNA Therapeutics Institute,

UMass Chan Medical School

Chantal Ferguson

UMass Medical School - Khvorova Lab
MD/PhD Student

Aurelie Goyenvalle, PhD

INSERM
Research Director - Laboratory Biothérapies des maladies neuromusculaires

Maja Janas De Angelis, PhD, DABT

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Director, Investigative Toxicology

Art Krieg, MD

Checkmate Pharmaceuticals
Founder, CSO

Martin Maier, PhD

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Vice President, RNAi Discovery

Melissa Moore, PhD

Moderna Therapeutics
Chief Scientific Officer

Laura Sepp-Lorenzino, PhD

Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.
Chief Scientific Officer

Marie Wikstrom Lindholm, PhD

Silence Therapeutics GmbH
VP, Head of Molecular Design

John Whittaker, PhD,

University of Cambridge