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2025 Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships
The Center for RNA Biology is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Summer Research Fellowships. Please join us in congratulating this year’s recipients:
Michael Muccio (Musier-Forsyth…
Congratulations to Anita Hopper who was recently named OSU Distinguished University Professor!
Dr. Hopper was surprised with this honor, which was announced during a ceremony following the CRB monthly seminar on March 18. The award was announced by Helen Malone, Vice Provost for Academic…

CRB Trainee Spotlight:
Mariana Correia’s Sorbonne Experience (Hopper Lab)Written by Andrew Savidge (Nakanishi lab)
Mariana Correia…

The Hopper Lab's study is first to show some tRNA introns affect gene expression
Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help cells respond to…

CRB Student Wins "RNA Collaborative Lightning Talk Workshop Competition”
Congratulations to Tasnin Nila (Musier-Forsyth lab) for winning the 1st place award in the "RNA Collaborative Lightning Talk Workshop Competition” offered by the RNA Collaborative. Tasnin received…

CRB Student Wins the 2024 Presidential Fellowship Award
Congratulations to Xiaoyuan Yang, advised by Dr. Tianmin Fu, for winning the 2024 Presidential Fellowship Award for her proposal entitled "Exploring diverse Argonautes to expand genome-editing…

CRB Researchers Host RNA Collaborative Seminar
Thanks to Dr. Wen Tang and Dr. Regina Nostramo (Hopper lab) for making our first RNA Collaborative seminar on Oct 23, 2024 a huge success! A special thank you to …
CRB Trainee Spotlight
CRB Trainee Spotlight: Jonathan Montgomery (Foster lab)Written by Andrew Savidge (Nakanishi lab)
Jonathan Montgomery is a 5th year Ph.D. student in Mark Foster’s lab and is part of the Ohio
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CRB Investigator, Co-Founder of City Therapeutics, Launches with $135 Million Series A Financing to Lead the Future of RNAi-based Medicine
City Therapeutics Launches with $135 Million Series A Financing to Lead the Future of RNAi-based MedicineHarnessing next-generation siRNA engineering to improve and…