From the Center’s co-directors, Fall 2020
Geoffrey H. Siwo, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine Research Associate, Center for Global Health Equity Website: siworesearch.com Twitter: @gsiwo What are your research interests? My research interests are in accelerating biomedical discoveries and advances in clinical medicine by combining fundamental biology with a broad range of exponentially growing technologies such as artificial intelligence…
On May 20th, 2021, the Board of Regents approved the following promotions of our RNA research community members: Dawen Cai, associate professor of cell and developmental biology, with tenure, Medical School, and associate professor of biophysics, without tenure, College of LSA (featured scientist) Justin A. Colacino, associate professor of environmental health sciences, with tenure, and associate…
Congratulations to Dr. Rajesh Rao for receiving a Career Advancement Award from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB). The Career Advancement Award assists outstanding early-career vision scientists in pursuit of ongoing research of unusual significance and promise. This one-time award is available to candidates who have already received their first NIH R01 and are collecting new…
2017-2018 RNA Innovation Seminar Series RNA Innovation Seminars (6/18/18) Melani Ohi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Research Associate Professor, Life Sciences Institute Using Cryo-EM to study RNA based molecular machines Jacob Kitzman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, Assistant Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics Massively parallel measurement of mutations’ functional effects RNA Innovation Seminars|| Theme: RNA viruses/retroviruses (6/4/18) Andrew Tai, M.D.,…
Initially scheduled for March 27, 2020, our 5th Annual Symposium “From RNA Biology to Medicine” is rescheduled for March 26, 2021 University of Michigan, Biomedical Research Science Building, 109 Zina Pitcher TOGETHER, WE SOLVE … Morning Welcome and Introduction, Mark Schlissel (President, University of Michigan) Afternoon Welcome and Introduction, Srijan Sen (Associate Vice President for…
What a thrill it was to welcome our keynote speakers, including the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate for Physiology and Medicine Dr. Drew Weissman, and registrants to the U-M Ann Arbor campus on Friday, March 8, as well as those who joined us LIVE via Zoom. University of Michigan President Santa J. Ono, Ph.D., welcomed speakers and…