Summary
This REU Site award to the State University of New York at Albany’s RNA Institute, located in Albany, NY, will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2026–2028. Students will participate in high quality, hands on research that contributes to scientific discovery in the broad field of ribonucleic acid (RNA) science and RNA based technologies. This work is important because RNA plays a central role in nearly all biological processes and advances in RNA research help transform biotechnology, medicine, and our understanding of life. The program benefits society by c