Elizabeth Yen, M.D. – 2021
Elizabeth Yen, M.D. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Tufts Medical Center Globe Twitter Salivary Transcriptomic Analysis to Understand Sex-Dependent Inflammatory Effects of Prenatal Opioid Exposure on the Brain Reward Signaling Infants born to mothers who use opioid drugs during pregnancy are at risk for withdrawal signs, known as neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). Hospital staff determines the […]
Sichen Shao, Ph.D. – 2018
Sichen Shao, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School Linkedin Globe Twitter Activation of Nonsense-mediated Decay in Genetic Diseases and Childhood Development Mutations that introduce a premature termination codon (PTC) into protein-coding transcripts cause over 10% of congenital diseases. Nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) is a dedicated cellular pathway that degrades these mRNAs […]
Amy Lee, Ph.D. – 2017
Amy Lee, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biology Department of Biology Brandeis University Linkedin Globe Twitter Regulation of mRNA Translation Initiation in Development Human development requires exquisite spatial and temporal control of the proteins that are expressed in a cell. Translation initiation factors are key players in protein synthesis, and although alterations to these factors […]