The RNA Institute
Scientific Advisory Board


  • Ronald Breaker, Ph.D.
    Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Henry Ford II Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
    Professor, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
    Yale University
  • Thomas R. Gingeras, Ph. D.
    Professor and Head of Functional Genomics
    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • Larry Gold, Ph. D.
    Member, National Academy of Sciences
    Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
    University of Colorado at Boulder
    CEO, Somalogic, Inc.
  • Rachel Green, Ph.D.
    Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Associate Professor
    Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
    The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Christine Guthrie, Ph.D.
    Member, National Academy of Sciences
    Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
    University of California - San Francisco
  • Gregory J. Hannon, Ph.D.
    Member, National Academy of Sciences
    Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    Chair, Program in Genetics and Bioinformatics, SUNY Stony Brook
  • Alan M. Lambowitz, Ph.D.
    Member, National Academy of Sciences
    Mr. & Mrs. A. Frank Smith, Jr. and Nancy Lee & Perry R. Bass Regents Chairs In Molecular Biology
    Director, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology>
  • David Lilley, Ph.D.
    Professor of Molecular Biology
    Director of the Cancer Research UK Nucleic Acid Structure Research Group
    Fellow of the Royal Society
    University of Dundee
  • John Rinn, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
    Harvard University and Medical School
    Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute
  • Dieter Söll, Ph.D.
    Member, National Academy of Sciences
    Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
    Professor of Chemistry
    Yale University
  • Tom Tuschl, Ph.D.
    Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Professor and Head of the Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology
    The Rockefeller University
  • Gabriele Varani, Ph.D.
    Member, European Academy of Sciences
    Professor of Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry
    University of Washington
  • Eric Westhof, Ph.D.
    Member, European Academy of Sciences
    University Professor, Head of the UPR 9002-ARN CNRS
    Institut de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire du CNRS
  • Ada E. Yonath, Ph.D.
    2009 Nobel Laureate
    Member, National Academy of Sciences
    Director, The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly
    Professor, Department of Structural Biology
    Weizmann Institute