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John Prensner honored with prestigious Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation award
John Prensner, M.D., Ph.D., has received a Clinical Investigator Award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation for his proposal: “Therapeutic opportunities and mechanistic insights of protein-RNA dyssynchrony in medulloblastoma.” The award supports outstanding early-career physician-scientists whose disease-oriented research has the potential to directly impact patients. Prensner was recognized as a leading pediatric cancer researcher…
Analisa DiFeo, Ph.D., and Joshi Alumkal, M.D., join the U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine
Welcome to our 2019–2020 new members, Dr. Analisa DiFeo, Ph.D., and Dr. Joshi Alumkal, M.D.! In this video (5′ 28″), they present their main research topic, respectively on ovarian cancer and prostate cancer, as well as their motivation and interests in RNA research.
2018 Symposium
Read the Live Blog Advancing Basic RNA Biosciences into Medicine Friday, March 30, 2018 8:30am – 4:00pm University of Michigan, Biomedical Research Science Building, 109 Zina Pitcher The Center for RNA Biomedicine Symposium brings together national leaders of the scientific, medical and engineering communities working on recent advances of our understanding of RNA. It will…
Nobel Laureates highlight University of Michigan’s Inaugural RNA Symposium
February 2, 2016 Ann Arbor, Mich. – Five prominent scientists, including two Nobel Laureates, will share the stage on March 25, 2016, when the University of Michigan’s Center for RNA Biomedicine holds its Inaugural Symposium. The Symposium, titled “Can RNA Answer It All? From the Origin of Life to a Future of Personalized Medicine,” will…
2021-2022 Seminars
Monday, September 13, 4:00 pm, Rhiju Das, Stanford University Monday, October 4, 4:00 pm, Byron Purse, San Diego State University Monday, October 18, 4:00 pm, Tim Stasevich, Colorado State University – Link to recording Monday, November 8, 4:00 pm, Zhonggang Hou & Jun Hee Lee – Link to recording Monday, December 13, 4:00 pm, Paul…
To splice or not to splice…
by Elisabeth Paymal In an article published in the journal RNA [1] , Karan Bedi, a bioinformatician in Mats Ljungman’s lab, Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Michigan Medical School, investigated the efficiency of splicing across different human cell types. The results were surprising in that the splicing process appears to be quite…