While outcomes for breast cancer patients have steadily improved over the years, one particularly vexing type known as triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) has continued to defy those rosy trends. One of the challenges in treating TNBC is that it […]
Jeffrey MacKeigan is not your traditional academic scientist. After completing his postdoctoral fellowship, he spent two years at one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. That gives him a unique perspective on how academic labs, […]
It’s not unusual for scientists to be discouraged by a lack of treatment options for their disease of interest. There is, however, a special kind of frustration for researchers who have clearly identified a promising biological target for treating […]
With the implementation of genomic technologies, medicine is becoming increasingly personalized thanks to new treatments that target important molecular targets. In the context of Parkinson's disease, there is an urgent need to identify molecular […]
Ron Viola, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Toledo, still remembers the moment he realized how sorely needed his research on the rare Canavan disease would be. He had just been awarded an NIH grant when the mother of a […]
Young Tang was on the road to becoming a physician when he realized that research was his real calling. During his medical training, as various professors taught him about the wide range of diseases and treatment regimens, what struck him most was […]
There is no treatment for the most common form of age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the developed world. But thanks to a fruitful collaboration between Professor Jeff Perry at the University of California, […]
After completing his PhD degree studying transcriptional kinases in yeast, Pengda Liu had one goal for his career: to make a difference for human health. Today, he is on the cusp of advancing a promising compound into the drug discovery and […]
Almost every organism on Earth tracks the planet’s day/night cycle, and uses that information to coordinate important elements of physiology and behavior. That may seem like just a fun bit of scientific trivia, but it’s actually a core component of […]