Meet Anastasia Khvorova, PhD: ASGCT Volunteer Rockstar
February 24, 2023
In a February 2023 installment of our series highlighting ASGCT member volunteers, meet Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, chair of the Society's Nanoagents and Synthetic Formulations Committee.
ASGCT is a volunteer-led organization, and it could not effectively pursue its mission and strategic vision without the commitment of its volunteers. The Society does so through 32 standing, scientific, and board committees supported by more than 400 member volunteers. We recognize our committee leaders for their time, commitment, and expertise, and appreciate their willingness to help ASGCT advance the field of gene and cell therapy in a unique and meaningful way.
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Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, Nanoagents and Synthetic Formulations Committee
Anastasia Khvorova is the Remondi Family Chair in Biomedical Research and professor in the RNA Therapeutics Institute and Program in Molecular Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School. During a decade in executive positions in industry prior to joining UMass, Dr Khvorova’s team at Dharmacon developed chemically modified versions of small interfering RNA that helped the company become the world’s largest provider of advanced RNA products.
At UMass, Dr. Khvorova lab focuses on the chemical engineering of therapeutic RNAs and has expanded the functional utility of RNA interference to multiple tissues, including liver, kidney, spleen, lung, heart, fat, muscle, placenta, and central nervous system, with several compounds in formal clinical evaluation. Through the Nucleic Acid Chemistry Center Dr Khvorova established at UMass, her lab provides access to RNA chemistry expertise to collaborators worldwide.
Dr. Khvorova leads the Nanoagents and Synthetic Formulations Committee and is responsible for directing the committee as they develop programming for the Annual Meeting, Insight Series, and other Society events.
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ASGCT thanks Dr. Khvorova for her service on the ASGCT’s scientific committee. Our members serve as subject matter experts for Society-led projects, including Annual Meeting programming, through both our standing committees and scientific committees, and we could not do the work we do without them.
For questions on ASGCT committees or volunteer process, please contact Dani Gale (dgale@asgct.org).
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