STRATEGIES FOR CONTROLLING THE INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSES TO IN VITRO TRANSCRIBED MESSENGER RNAS A Dissertation Presented to The Academic Faculty by Kristin Helene Loomis In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology May, 2016 Copyright © Kristin H. Loomis 2016