From the Center’s co-directors, Fall 2020

March 22, 2017 // FOUND IN: Updates & Resources Michigan Medicine faculty and staff will soon have the opportunity to learn more about one of the newest — and most innovative — fields of medical research. The second annual U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine symposium takes place on Friday, March 31 at various sites across…
Congratulations to Chase Weidmann, Ph.D., for receiving a K22 grant from NCI for “Unraveling the MALAT1 lncRNA-protein interaction networks that drive lung cancer metastasis” This project’s goal is to integrate cutting-edge sequencing and quantitative proteomics technologies with cell-based functional approaches to understand how RNA-protein interaction networks of MALAT1 promote metastatic activity in human lung cancers. Chase…
Our 5th Annual Symposium,”Processing RNA,” March 25–26, 2021, 11:00–2:30 pm ET Can you match our speakers with their topics? SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION Answer SYMPOSIUM DETAILED INFORMATION
September 25, 2024 ANN ARBOR, Mich. — In a remarkable display of bench to bedside science, a therapeutic developed by U-M’s Michelle Hastings, Ph.D., is now being used to treat twin girls with a rare form of juvenile Batten disease. Hastings, who is the Pfizer Upjohn Research Professor of Pharmacology, Director of RNA Therapeutics at…
Milan Samanta Posdoctoral Fellow, Kalantry lab Department of Human Genetics Google Scholar Who/what brought you to science? Early on in my education, I was not very interested in science. This changed when I met my favorite professor, Dr. Rajesh Ali, while studying microbiology during my bachelor’s degree. Dr. Ali’s mentorship inspired me to peruse research…
Monika Franco Ph.D. Candidate Program in Chemical Biology Koutmou Lab What are your research interests? My thesis work is centered around investigating mRNA modifications and how they impact protein translation. Who/what brought you to science? People. People brought me to science. My friends, my family, my professors. It was the idea that…