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F. William Studier receives the 2024 Merkin Prize in ceremony at the Broad Institute for developing technology used to produce millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines

Broad Institute

William Studier receives the 2024 Merkin Prize in ceremony at the Broad Institute for developing technology used to produce millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines The groundbreaking, scalable technology is widely used in laboratories around the world today to efficiently produce large amounts of protein and RNA. Merkin (left) and F.

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Day Zero Antivirals for Future Pandemics

Codon

Remdesivir and other broad-spectrum antivirals work by jamming up RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp), an enzyme that nearly all RNA viruses use to replicate their genomes. Other efforts to build broad-spectrum antivirals have focused on another conserved feature of viruses: double-stranded RNA.

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Developing an mRNA therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Drug Target Review

Additionally, the COVID-19 RNA vaccines have already demonstrated how safe RNA can be, and we look forward to seeing additional safety data on RNA approaches as the field continues to grow. 2012 Aug 1;181(2):392-400. AAV-based therapies often can’t be dosed more than once due to concerns about an immune response.

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Could illuminating the surfaceome help find new targeted cancer therapies?

Drug Target Review

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing is an established approach, in which messenger RNA (mRNA) transcripts within the cell are used to produce a readout of the proteins they code for on the cell surface. Roman also serves as the Director of the Department of Translational Genomics and as Professor at the University of Cologne.

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Oditrasertib,

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2-NTP , an analog of ATP, inhibits the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase replication and transcription of viral RNA. 2012). “Synthesis and antiviral activity of a series of 1′-substituted 4-aza-7,9-dideazaadenosine C-nucleosides” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. Saunders, O.

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Marvin Caruthers receives inaugural Merkin Prize in ceremony at the Broad Institute for DNA synthesis technology

Broad Institute

Today, scientists use such reactions to produce the customizable DNA and RNA molecules that enable genetic sequencing, drug and vaccine development, pathogen tests, cancer diagnostics, and more. It is because we had the Fellowship that we could buy our very first DNA and RNA synthesizer in the lab.”

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Leveraging ADCs in precision oncology strategy

Drug Target Review

By identifying proteins that only interact with each other in cancer, but not normal tissues, we can really expand the repertoire of ADC therapeutics beyond monoclonal antibodies developed based solely on RNA expression profiles. His work has been published in many high-impact journals and presented at international oncology meetings.