Inside NSF AIRFoundry, Senator McCormick Gets a Look at the Future of RNA Discovery

Standing inside the National Science Foundation (NSF) Artificial Intelligence-driven RNA BioFoundry (AIRFoundry) at One uCity Square, U.S. Senator Dave McCormick watched as Andrew Hanna, a graduate student in Bioengineering (BE), demonstrated one way Penn Engineering is accelerating RNA research. The exchange set the tone for McCormick’s first visit to the NSF AIRFoundry on Friday, May 15, where he met with Daeyeon Lee, Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) and the facility’s director; George J. Pappas, UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation in Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) and Penn Engineering’s Associate Dean for Research; and David F. Meaney, Solomon R. Pollack Professor in Bioengineering (BE) and Penn’s Vice Provost for Research. READ MORE