Designing More Shelf-Stable RNA Vaccines through Community Science
Hannah Wayment-Steele |
TEDxYouth@WashingtonHigh
• May 2021
Hannah Wayment-Steele is a PhD candidate in Chemistry at Stanford University. After studying chemistry and applied mathematics at Pomona College, she attended Cambridge University as a Churchill scholar, receiving a Masters for work with Daan Frenkel on the statistical mechanics of DNA nanomaterial assembly. Here, she discusses her current doctoral research that brings together statistical mechanics, machine learning, and high-throughput experimentation to create improved models for RNA structure, and since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the design of stabilized messenger RNA therapeutics.