The expanding world of nucleic acid therapeutics!

Host: Office for Translational Research (OTR) and the Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge
Date: Wednesday, 25th September 2024, 17:30-20:00
Location: Jeffrey Cheah Building, Biomedical Campus, Puddicombe Way, Cambridge CB2 0AW
Event registration: https://camntf2024_OTR-Maxwell.eventbrite.co.uk

Agenda:

• 17:30 – 18:00 Registration and refreshments
• 18:00 Introduction to the event
  Alex Samoshkin (Deputy Head, OTR and Maxwell Centre)
• 18:05 Nucleic Acid Medicines like you`ve never seen before!
  Mark Edbrooke, Independent Scientific Consultant, Cambridge-London
• 18:15 Discovery, translation and early development of oligonucleotide therapeutics
  Dan Swerdlow, Senior director, Discovery Medicine, GSK, Stevenage
• 18:35 A mRNA encoding Myc and Cyclin T1 improves cardiac function after myocardial injury in rodents
  Catherine Wilson, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge
• 18:55 The Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator: new opportunities for technical development and translation
  Peter Oliver, Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator (NATA), University of Oxford
• 19:15 – 20:00 Drinks, buffet & networking