We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on The Now and Future of RNA Therapeutics which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday June 9, and will conclude after lunch on Friday June 13, 2025.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in application of RNA-based therapy and drugs as a novel medication. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Posters will be up for viewing and discussion throughout the conference. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. RNA from birth to death/from basic to translational

2. RNA targeting: Mechanisms and applications

3. RNA chemistry

4. Development of small RNA (siRNA, LNA, PNA, ASO) drugs  

5. RNA delivery

6. Genome editing

7. Preclinical and clinical programs 

Keynote Speakers:

Osamu Takeuchi, Kyoto University

Invited Speakers:

Doug Anderson, University of Rochester Medical Center

Polly Chen, National University of Singapore

Xiang-Dong Fu, Westlake University

Michelle Hastings, University of Mitchigan

Keiji Itaka, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Andrea Kasinski, University of Pennsylvania

Jinzhong Lin, Fudan University

Mofang Liu, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS

Marco Mangone, Arizona State University

Lynne Maquat, University of Rochester Medical Center

Hirohide Saito, University of Tokyo

Makoto Saito, RIKEN

Martine Simonelig, Monpellier France

Mikiko Siomi, Tokyo University

Yihan Wan, Westlake University

Ligang Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yuanchao Xue, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chengqi Yi, Peking University

And more...

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in June, 2024.