Bridging Innovative RNA Biology and Drug Discovery

Our mission:

By combining multidisciplinary academic innovators with biotech-inspired objectives and focus, our goal is to uncover novel disease solutions by advancing the science of RNA regulation, developing new technological platforms, and discovering early-stage therapeutics.

Our Approach:

  • Recruit and nucleate current and next generation leaders in RNA biology and cultivate environment of collaboration, technology innovation and entrepreneurship

  • Build multi-disciplinary drug discovery teams focused on translating transformative RNA discoveries into therapeutics utilizing biotech best practices

  • Integrate academic innovators with therapeutic teams to bridge the gap between discovery and clinically applicable therapies


CENTER Happenings

recent media & publications

Drs. Nick Neill and Trey Westbrook recently published “Integrative proteogenomics and forward genetics reveals a novel mitotic vulnerability in triple-negative breast cancerin Cancer Discovery. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Khoa Dao, Dr. Tony Mustoe, and colleagues for their recent publication “U-rich elements drive pervasive cryptic splicing in 3’ UTR massively parallel reporter assays” in Nature Communications!

Congrats to Joey Song, Dr. Eric Van Nostrand, and colleagues for their Genome Biology publication “Mapping snoRNA-target RNA interactions in an RNA-binding protein-dependent manner with chimeric eCLIP”!

upcoming events

THINC Seminar Series has ended for the academic year. Check back soon for information on next year’s series!

Our next RNA Group will be September 8th, at 10am in M112. Hope to see you there!