Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering
Contact Information
Campus: Prince William (Science and Technology Campus)
Building: Prince William: Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research
Room 3017
Mail Stop: 4C7
In the News
- September 16, 2024
- March 30, 2023
- December 14, 2022
- September 21, 2021
Biography
Rémi Veneziano joined the Department of Bioengineering in the fall of 2018. Veneziano is currently focusing his research on designing and synthesizing new composite nanomaterials, combining structured 3D DNA nanoparticles with proteins, and lipids. His lab is using these constructs to investigate fundamental questions about the role of biomacromolecule nanoscale organization in cell membrane interaction events.
Veneziano was previously a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT under the supervision of Prof. Mark Bathe where he made important contributions in the field of DNA nanotechnology. He notably participated in the development of a new class of 3D DNA nanostructures for biomedical applications and developed a method for the large-scale production of long single-stranded DNA scaffolds. He obtained his PhD in 2013 from Montpellier University, France, for his research on the translocation of proteins across model lipid bilayers.
Degrees
- 2010 – Master’s degree in Functional and Structural Biology, University of Toulouse III, France
- 2008 – Professional degree in Analytical and Experimental Biology, University Institute of Technology Nancy-Brabois, France
- 2007 – Undergraduate degree in Life Sciences, University Paul Verlaine, Metz, France
Research Interests
- DNA Origami
- Nanotechnology
- Biomaterials
- Self-Assembly
- DNA Hydrogels
- Vaccine Platform