The Dark Side of Family Secrets: Melissa Moore's Story | Dr. Oz | S6 | Ep 164 | Full Episode
The Dark Side of Family Secrets: Melissa Moore's Story | Dr. Oz | S6 | Ep 164 | Full Episode What if the father you loved turned out ...
Chief Scientific Officer & Member of Scientific Advisory Board, Moderna
Search every verified Melissa Moore interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Melissa Moore, chief scientific officer at Moderna, discussed the potential of mRNA-based medicine in a May 2022 TED talk. She stated that the rapid development and deployment of the COVID-19 vaccine demonstrated that mRNA vaccines are "both remarkably safe and incredibly effective." Moore said that mRNA technology gives scientists the ability to "not only prevent disease but also treat previously intractable disorders," and noted that as of her talk, over 175 clinical trials using mRNA-based medicines were recruiting patients. She described a collaboration with the American Defense Department to miniaturize mRNA manufacturing equipment so it could fit into a single shipping container for rapid global deployment. In an August 2025 appearance on Dr. Oz, Moore spoke about her personal history as the daughter of convicted serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson. She said she learned of her father's crimes at age 15, when her mother told the family he was in jail for murder. Moore described witnessing him torture animals as a child and said he once told her he "know[s] how to murder someone and get away with it." She stated that she has "severed" communication with her father, describing his letters as "manipulation" and "coercion." Moore said she had contemplated suicide but decided to "make the life that I want" rather than remain defined by her father's actions.
The Dark Side of Family Secrets: Melissa Moore's Story | Dr. Oz | S6 | Ep 164 | Full Episode What if the father you loved turned out ...
We have now officially entered the era of programmable or language-based medicines. These medicines, based on our ability to read and write in the language of life (the genetic code), have the potential to completely transform how we can prevent and treat previously intractable diseases, as well as more equitably deliver healthcare across the globe. Melissa Moore will take us down to the molecular level, unraveling how RNA in our bodies helps maintain health, prevent disease, and how it can be used to instruct the human body to treat ailments that have haunted humanity for millennia. Science…
Moore is a biochemist and molecular biologist recognized for her work in eukaryotic RNA processing and metabolism. Moore was born and raised in New Market, Virginia. She graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1984 with a BS in Chemistry and Biology, and earned her PhD in Biological Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1989. Following a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship at the MIT Center for Cancer Research, Moore joined the Brandeis University faculty in 1994, where she was named a Searle Scholar and Packard Fellow. In 2007, Moore moved to the Un…
In March 2022, we grabbed Mellisa and asked her about emerging technologies that excite her within the RNA, what to expect from Moderna in the next few years and how she finds being back in person after the pandemic. RNA Leaders is a high-quality therapeutic conference, focussed on presentation of pre-clinical and clinical data from companies who are developing new RNA medicines. Join us on 15-16 March 2023, in Basel, Switzerland. Subscribe to our channel for more videos. Follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/showcase/rnaleaders/ Visit us at www.lsxleaders.com/rna-leaders-world-congres…
Panel discussion: Moderated by Thomas Preiss, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, Australia Featured Speakers: Ross Hannan, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, Australia Catherine Mills, Director, Monash Bioethics Centre, Australia Melissa Moore, Moderna Therapeutics, US Each month, Life Science Across the Globe highlights scientific and societal topics of global importance, allowing you to meet some of the world’s most creative scientists and scholars, and to appreciate that science is a shared global effort. For more information visit: https://lifescienceacrosstheglobe.o…
The secret behind medicine that uses messenger RNA (or mRNA) is that it "teaches" our bodies how to fight diseases on our own, leading to groundbreaking treatments for COVID-19 and, potentially one day, cancer, the flu and other ailments that have haunted humanity for millennia. RNA researcher Melissa J. Moore -- Moderna's chief scientific officer and one of the many people responsible for the rapid creation and deployment of their COVID-19 vaccine -- takes us down to the molecular level, unraveling how mRNA helps our bodies' proteins maintain health, prevent disease and correct errors in our…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has scheduled a meeting of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) on Dec. 17 to discuss the request for emergency use authorization (EUA) of a COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna, Inc. #COVID19 #VRBPAC
Dr. Moore explains how the innovative use of fluorescent protein tags and total internal reflection microscopy has allowed her and her colleagues to better understand the ordered assembly and function of the complex splicing machine.
Dr. Moore describes the mechanism of splicing, including how splice sites are chosen, exon definition, the chemical steps of ...
https://www.ibiology.org/genetics-and... Description of the exonic and intronic splicing enhancers and silencers, and the proteins that make up the core splicing machinery.
https://www.ibiology.org/genetics-and-gene-regulation/alternative-splicing/ How much splicing instructions are stored in introns, ...
https://www.ibiology.org/genetics-and-gene-regulation/alternative-splicing/ Overview of the different types of alternative splicing ...
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