Paul F Agris
The RNA Institute, SUNY at Albany, USA
Biography
Paul F. Agris created and is the founding Director of The RNA Institute, SUNY at Albany. He is known as a Structural Biochemist and innovator in RNA biology, RNA modification science and applications, and nucleic acid design with modified nucleosides. Agris was a Professor and Head of North Carolina State University’s Biochemistry Department, and founded and led the RNA Society of North Carolina for more than a decade. Previously, he was an Assistant, Associate and full Professor in the Division of Biological Sciences and Department of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Agris researches into RNA-based therapeutics against infective disease, drug-resistant HIV and MRSA, have been supported continuously by federal agencies since 1974. He is the author of some 170 peer reviewed articles, a number of reviews, chapters and editor of three volumes. Agris founded the RNA-based drug discovery company SIRGA Advanced Biopharma, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC.
Abstract
Abstract : Engineering a new class of antibiotic against an RNA target