Welcome to our 2019–2020 new members, Dr. Analisa DiFeo, Ph.D., and Dr. Joshi Alumkal, M.D.!
John Prensner, M.D., Ph.D., is co-senior author of a major paper published in Nature, reporting the discovery of more than 1,700 new proteins in the dark proteome, which could have implications for human diseases, including cancer. The study is the work of the TransCODE Consortium, an international collaboration of more than 60 researchers at over 30 institutions…
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…
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 Tuesday after Thanksgiving. With a…
ANN ARBOR—To better understand how RNA in bacteria gives rise to protein—and along the way, target these processes in the design of new antibiotics—researchers are turning their attention to the unique way this process happens in bacteria. In eukaryotic cells, transcription (the process by which information in a DNA strand is copied into messenger RNA)…
A Washington Post video (duration 6’16”) – December 8, 2020 How mRNA helped scientists create a COVID-19 vaccine in record time Our RNA scientists, Alice Telesnitsky, Microbiology and Immunology, and Nils G. Walter, Chemistry, Biophysics & Biological Chemistry and co-director of the Center for RNA Biomedicine, explain how RNA research allows to save millions of…
Rajesh Rao, M.D. Leonard G Miller Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Associate Professor of Pathology Associate Professor of Human Genetics Medical School Website Dr. Rao is interested in the mechanisms that control the normal development of stem cells into retinal cells, and how they are involved…
