SGS: Phillip Zamore - Towards a modern understanding of an ancient small RNA pathway
Max Planck Special Guest Lecture Series
- Date: Sep 3, 2025
- Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Phillip D. Zamore
- University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester (USA) & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Location: MPI-IE
- Room: Lecture Hall
- Host: Asifa Akhtar
Phillip D. Zamore, Ph.D., the Gretchen Stone Cook Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is Chair of the RNA Therapeutics Institute, which was established at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 2009.
The Zamore lab studies small RNA silencing pathways in eukaryotes and prokaryotes, including the RNA interference (RNAi), microRNA, and PIWI-interacting RNA pathways. Zamore and his collaborators seek to use the fundamental insights gained from studies in model and non-model bacteria, insects, and mammals to design therapies for human diseases, including Huntington’s disease.