Program in Molecular Medicine

Focus:  Assessing how vertebrate hosts and their immune system interact with intestinal nematodes, to control autoimmune diseases including MS; and the cognitive impact of parasitic nematodes.

Focus: Neuronal Cell Fate Specification.      

Endowed Chair in Diabetes
Focus: Adipose tissue biology and metabolic diseases.

The Isadore and Fannie Foxman Chair of Medical Research
Focus: Investigating cellular and molecular interations among metabolic tissues, macrophages, neuronal signals and the vasculature that define both normal and metabolic disease states.

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

H. Arthur Smith Chair in Cancer Research
Focus: Mechanisms by which growth factors regulate cellular proliferation and signaling.

Remondi Family Chair in Biomedical Research
Focus: Therapeutic gene silencing in vivo.

Focus: Translational regulation in models of Fragile X Syndrome.

Focus: Using small to macromolecular drug delivery to phagocytes to modulate inflammation and pathologies associated with infectious, autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases.

Arthur F. Koskinas Chair in Neuroscience
Focus: Translational control in meiosis, mitosis, and neuronal synaptic plasticity, Fragile X syndrome.

Focus: Interplay of sensory systems and internal state; taste
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