SPEAKER

Matthew Disney, Ph.D.

”Sequence-based design of small molecules targeting RNA””

University of Florida UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation and Technology Institute Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry Associate Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Matt is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation and Technology (formerly Scripps Florida). His laboratory works in the area of small molecule targeting of RNA, addressing fundamental questions surrounding the molecular recognition of RNA folds by small molecules to study problems of biomedical importance. Applications have included development of sequence-based design of small molecules, on-site drug synthesis in disease-affected cells, understanding the biology of coding and non-coding RNAs, and interfacing RNAs with quality control machinery, the latter including small molecule degraders and chimeric degrading compounds.