Welcome to The Conference
We are delighted to invite you to attend our 12th international Oxford conference on antisense and therapeutic nucleic acids, which will be held as a ‘virtual/in-person’ hybrid event at Oxford (UK) on 25-26 March 2026.
The conference is aimed at bringing together chemists and biologists from academia and industry to discuss the latest advances and breakthroughs in the development of synthetic oligonucleotides as therapeutics, and will feature:
>High-impact talks and discussions
>An international faculty of senior and emerging researchers from academia and industry
>Digital posters
Get involved in shaping the conference agenda: We invite oral and poster abstracts on therapeutic applications of nucleic acids, including:
>Antisense & catalytic oligonucloetides, aptamers, siRNAs, miRNAs, antagomirs/blockmirs
>Nucleic acid-based vaccines (viral vectors, mRNA)
>Gene therapy and genome editing
>Chemical modification of nucleic acids
>Nucleic acid delivery strategies
>New technologies
We particularly encourage final year doctoral students and early/mid-career postdoctoral researchers/junior group leaders to submit abstracts, as we believe this event will provide their research an excellent exposure, critical analysis by attending senior researchers and new career opportunities.
Registration is now open, but we would welcome presentation themes/abstracts for pre-approval. Please use this Abstract template to prepare your abstract and send by emailing OligoOxford@gmail.com.
Our accompanying aptamers meeting, Aptamers 2026, will be held on 23-24 March 2026.
Important dates
Oral Abstracts: 16 Jan 2026 | Early Registration: 30 Jan 2026 | Poster Abstracts: 02 Mar 2026 | Digital Posters: 13 Mar 2026 | Standard Registration: 20 Mar 2026
Our Past Therapeutic Nucleic Acid Conferences
OLIGOMER 2015 OXFORD | OLIGO 2016 OXFORD | OLIGO 2017 OXFORD
OLIGO 2018 OXFORD | OLIGO 2019 OXFORD
OLIGO 2020 OXFORD VIRTUAL | OLIGO 2021 OXFORD VIRTUAL | OLIGO 2022 OXFORD | OLIGO 2023 OXFORD | OLIGO 2024 OXFORD | OLIGO 2025 OXFORD
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