Peixuan Guo, a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors, pioneer of RNA nanotech. He was a Ph.D. from UMn under Dwight Anderson and NIH/NIAID postdoc under Bernard Moss, a pioneer of vaccinia virus as a vaccine vector. As a Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Purdue where he directed NIH Nanomedicine-Development Center, then moved to hold three endowed chair professorships at UC, UK, and currently OSU; is the President of ISRNN. He worked on 2 animal vaccines and invented methods for vaccinia virus mRNA capping enzyme (PNAS 1990) used currently for capping COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. Recent awards include OSU Innovator of the Year 2021; NAI Fellow 2023, President Research Excellent Catalyst Award 2024.
The President of ISRNN.