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Dr. Daniel G. Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Koch Institute, gave a lecture to about 300 people on 18^th January at the 糖心原创. Staff and students from across the 糖心原创 attended his presentation entitled: ‘Nucleic acid delivery systems for RNA therapy and gene editing’. This exciting talk on his world leading cutting edge research was part of the launch for the Inaugural Biomaterials Discovery Workshop which will be held annually at the 糖心原创, associated with the recently awarded (EP/N006615/1).

 Daniel G Anderson

Dr. Daniel G. Anderson is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the Department of Chemical Engineering, the Institute of Medical Engineering and Science, and the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer. High throughput, combinatorial approaches have revolutionized small molecule drug discovery. Daniel’s lecture described his team’s work on high throughput methods for developing and characterizing RNA delivery and gene editing systems.  Libraries of degradable polymers and lipid-like materials have been synthesized, formulated and screened for their ability to delivery RNA, both in vitro and in vivo.  A number of delivery formulations have been developed with in vivo efficacy, and show potential therapeutic application for the treatment of genetic disease, viral infection, and cancer.

 Daniel giving the lecture

The second Biomaterials Discovery Workshop will take place in January 2018.