Introducing Chase Weidmann, Ph.D., U-M RNA Faculty Scholar
Introducing Chase Weidmann, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry
and RNA Scholar Faculty of the Center for RNA Biomedicine.
Introducing Chase Weidmann, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry
and RNA Scholar Faculty of the Center for RNA Biomedicine.

Giving Tuesday | December 2 Every year on Giving Tuesday, millions of people around the world join together to support causes and organizations that are making a difference. At the University of Michigan, impactful projects across all three campuses and Michigan Medicine are funded each year thanks to the generosity of the U-M community on the…
The observation of single biomolecules in real-time is crucial for our understanding of the cellular biology that is assembled from these molecules, be they DNA, RNA or protein. The recent development of an array of tools and techniques for single-molecule analysis allows studies at an extremely small scale (nanometers, or 10-9 meters) over short periods…

March 21, 2025. ANN ARBOR, Mich. The Center for RNA Biomedicine at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce the publication of our latest issue of RNA Translated. RNA Translated 2025: The Power of Collaborative RNA Science. A convergence of minds and institutional allies at the University of Michigan propels discovery, unlocking new horizons for…

A new study from the University of Michigan’s Stephanie Moon Lab, with first-author Genetics and Genomics Ph.D. candidate Noah Helton, offers fresh insights into how cells manage molecular crises. Helton, the first graduate student to join the lab, worked closely with Principal Investigator Stephanie Moon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Human Genetics and Center for RNA…
March 25, 2019 By Annie Kadeli Biosciences Initiative Topic: Health & Medicine, Research The U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine’s fourth annual symposium on Friday will focus on foundational ribonucleic acid biosciences, from discovery to function. Recent discoveries in biomedicine have revealed that RNA is critical to most aspects of human health and that its misregulation is responsible…

The discovery of insulin has saved the lives of millions of people with diabetes worldwide, but little is known about the first step of insulin synthesis. Researchers at the University of Michigan have uncovered part of this mystery. Examining messenger RNAs involved in the production of insulin in fruit flies, they found that a chemical…