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Keep up to date on the latest news and events from the RNA Innovation Center.
mRNA and Gene Editing Offer Hope to Children with Rare Diseases
Dr. Coller discusses how the science to treat rare diseases now exists, but the real barrier is a regulatory and commercial infrastructure never designed for bespoke, single-patient molecular therapies. He offers the view of gene editing as "molecular surgery" rather than a pharmaceutical drug -- a view that could enable the scaling of these breakthroughs beyond one-off miracles.
Conference on Building RNA Medicine Excellence
Building RNA Medicine Excellence is a half-day conference co-hosted by Philadelphia's Franklin Biolabs and the Alliance for mRNA Medicines, with participation of Philadelphia's leading academic medical centers.
Dr. Katalin Karikó to give Johns Hopkins 2026 Commencement address
Dr. Katalin Karikó, a member of the RNA Innovation Center's Steering Committee, will deliver a speech at Johns Hopkins University's commencement ceremony on May 21, 2026.
The Johns Hopkins 2025 Translational Immunoengineering Symposium
The Johns Hopkins Translational ImmunoEngineering Center hosted a symposium in March 2024. It was an opportunity for leaders in the field and young scientists to share some of their work developing new therapeutic approaches.
We celebrate the 2024 Nobel Prize awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for microRNA discovery
Johns Hopkins establishes RNA innovation center in collaboration with TriLink BioTechnologies
The center, anchored in the Institute for NanoBioTechnology, will speed the cycle of RNA innovation in pursuit of advanced therapies.
