RNA therapeutics and Neuroscience

May 24, 2022 - May 25, 2022
Conference
 Virtual meeting

Presentation

Virtual meeting: instructions to connect are communicated upon registration.

The RNA & NEUROSCIENCE meeting aims to bring together graduate students, academic and industry scientists working in the fields of RNA and the Central Nervous System (CNS) to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, biological medical applications and discuss the current concepts and the challenges that we are facing for future research.

RNA therapeutics is a novel technology that provides a unique treatment for a variety of diseases.  While it has been a success for the COVID19 pandemic, the RNA community still has the challenge on delivering some of these RNA molecules in other parts of the body (e.g.  brain and cardiac tissue) and better specificity to have a full therapeutic effect. Therefore, this meeting will explore the novel RNA therapeutics that are been currently developing and their mechanisms to cure a variety of diseases.

Additionally, the complexity of the brain provides a unique challenge to find therapeutics to cure neurodevelopmental disorders and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and ALS. These diseases are characterized by the lack of gene regulation causing protein imbalance at the synapses and therefore cell death. Thus, in this meeting we will also explore the mechanisms that cause these diseases and the novel therapeutics that are currently being developed for their cure.

This international conference is organised in the framework of the BIOPHARMACEUTICALS ARD CVL Programme.

KEY-WORDS

RNA therapeutics, RNA molecules, Neurosciences, Neurodevelopment diseases, Neurodegenerative diseases, Central Nervous System (CNS), RNA therapy, RNA delivery and Gene regulation

CONVENORS

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Organising committee

Confirmed speakers

Programme

Tuesday 24th May (14:00-18:50 Gmt+2 Paris)

 

14:00 Official Opening by Sophie Gabillet, Dr Kathia Zaleta & Prof. Patrick Vourc'h 

Session 1 : RNA REGULATION

Chairman: Dr Frédéric Laumonnier

Session 2: RNA DELIVERY

Chairman: Prof Chantal Pichon & Dr Fédérico Perche

Wednesday 25th May (14:00-19:00 Gmt+2 Paris)

Session 3: RNA THERAPEUTICS - Part 1

Chairman: Prof. Patrick Vourc'h
Session 4: RNA THERAPEUTICS - Part 2
Chairman: Dr Kathia Zaleta

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