RNA Therapeutics Institute

06/03/2026

Passionate about and STEM education? 🧬 The RNA Therapeutics Institute is looking for a Program Manager to lead our outreach in Worcester Public Schools and support our researchers with grant/fellowship applications.

Come help us turn complex science into community impact!

05/31/2026

ICYMI: NPR re-aired and re-published a segment featuring Rachael Sirianni, PhD, professor and vice chair of neurological surgery, about how NIH funding cuts have impacted her lab's pediatric cancer research.

Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.

05/28/2026

New siRNA therapy led by Claudio Punzo, Anastasia Khvorova, & Julia Alterman has potential to halt vision loss in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) https://buff.ly/EfogUGc

UMass Chan Medical School

05/24/2026

Hot off the press from the RTI: The Pseudomonas aeruginosa ribonuclease Ribocin cleaves eukaryotic ribosomes at helix 69 to inhibit host translation

https://buff.ly/ulNCZBo

05/20/2026

Hot off the press from the RTI: Swine reporter model for preclinical evaluation and characterization of gene delivery vectors

https://buff.ly/alerDBO

05/17/2026

Hot off the press from the RTI: Systemic dual-gene therapy reverses biochemical intoxication in the central metabolic compartment of Bckdha-/- mice

https://buff.ly/X54oL5r

05/15/2026

ICYMI: 📰 RTI Messenger, Issue 58
➰️ Keeping you in the loop ➰️
https://buff.ly/6ediNBb
UMass Chan Medical School

05/14/2026

Fantastic keynote by RTI's Erik Sontheimer at on CRISPR, from Bacterial Immunity to Genome Editing Therapeutics

UMass Chan Medical School

05/14/2026

Countdown to UMass Chan Medical School!! We are thrilled to have a stellar line-up of speakers! We are completely sold out in person, but we do still have virtual registrations available. Join us:

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05/14/2026

RTI's Erik Sontheimer and Wen Xue develop gene editing technology capable of rewriting entire chapters of the genome
https://buff.ly/58PLC0X
UMass Chan Medical School

Erik Sontheimer, PhD, and Wen Xue, PhD, have developed a gene editing technology that allows for precise, efficient insertion of very large DNA segments into the human genome.