Special Seminar Dr. Owen Fenton

Special Seminar Dr. Owen Fenton, Tuesday, July 29, 2025, at 11 AM in NRB Room 457.

Speaker: Owen Fenton, M.D. – Assistant Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Talk Title: “Mechanisms, Materials, and Therapies: Investigating Hypoxia’s Impact on mRNA Lipid Nanoparticle Medicines”

Location: New Research Building (NRB), Room 457, 11:00 AM

Bio: Owen S. Fenton, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pharmacoengineering
and Molecular Pharmaceutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Owen conducted
his Ph.D. and postdoctoral studies in the laboratories of Professors Daniel Anderson and
Robert Langer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Fenton lab works
broadly within the field of genetic medicine with a particular emphasis on the
development of RNA drugs using non-viral carriers such as lipid nanoparticles.