Join us for the Center for RNA Biology’s Inaugural Schoenberg Lecture, co-sponsored by the Science Sundays public lecture series.
Sunday, November 5 at 3 p.m.
followed by a public reception and student poster session at 4 p.m.
Fawcett Center Conference Theater
2400 Olentangy River Rd.
Parking will be available for free at the Fawcett Center.
This event is free and open to the public. We ask that you kindly RSVP using the form below. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis.
“The dawning age of RNA medicines”
Melissa J. Moore, PhD
Dean, Research & Development, Moderna University
CSO Emerita, Moderna
We have now officially entered the era of programmable or language-based medicines. These medicines, based on our ability to read and write in the language of life (the genetic code), have the potential to completely transform how we can prevent and treat previously intractable diseases, as well as more equitably deliver healthcare across the globe. Melissa Moore will take us down to the molecular level, unraveling how RNA in our bodies helps maintain health, prevent disease, and how it can be used to instruct the human body to treat ailments that have haunted humanity for millennia.
Melissa J. Moore is a distinguished RNA scientist who has spent decades researching RNA, mainly working to extend fundamental knowledge around how it is created, used — and destroyed — in mammalian cells. After many years as an academic researcher, she joined Moderna and served as its chief scientific officer 2016-2022. Work from her team on mRNA engineering and delivery was foundational to the rapid production of Moderna's highly effective mRNA vaccine for SARS-CoV-2. In her current role at Moderna, she is passionate to educate the public, industry leadership and other stakeholders about what she sees as the coming age of RNA medicines. She has earned numerous academic accolades, including a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigatorship and election to the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Schoenberg Lectureship honors Dr. Daniel Schoenberg’s nearly quarter century-long leadership of RNA research at Ohio State and the Midwest. Among his many achievements in his distinguished career, two of Dr. Schoenberg’s key legacies are the founding (along with partner institutions) of the Rustbelt RNA Meeting in 1999 and establishment of the Center for RNA Biology (CRB) at Ohio State in 2012. He served as the CRB’s first director from 2012-2018. The Schoenberg Lectureship is an annual celebration of the triumphs of RNA research with participants from the scientific community and the general public.
Science Sundays is a free lecture series open to the public that provides a wide range of current and emerging topics and issues in science that touch our everyday lives. Speakers are experts in their fields from on campus and around the world with experience in making their topics interesting and accessible for audiences of all ages, with or without a science background.
