Society Officers

The RNA Society officers comprise a combination of elected and appointed positions. Click here for more details on roles and responsibilities, or to view the Society’s articles of incorporation and bylaws.

Officers of the RNA Society 2020

President (2021-2022)
Maria Carmo-Fonseca
Instituto de Medicina Molecular,
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Past President (2019-2020)
Anna Marie Pyle
Yale University, USA

Chief Executive Officer
Kristian Baker
Case Western Reserve Univ, USA

 Chief Financial Officer
Wen Ding
University of California, Irvine USA

 Secretary (2018 – 2020)
Brenda Peculis
University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Director (2020 – 2021)
Archa Fox
Univ of Western Australia

Director (2020 – 2021)
Lori Passmore
University of Cambridge, UK

Director (2020 – 2021)
Yukihide Tomari
Univ of Tokyo, Japan

Director (2021 - 2022)
David Bartel
MIT, USA

Director (2021 - 2022)
Alain Laederach
University of North Carolina, USA

Director (2021 - 2022)
Kristin Patrick
Texas A&M, USA

Members, contact Society Officers and Committee Members here.