On the occasion of the National Postdoc Appreciation Week, September 21st–25th, the University of Michigan (U-M) Center for RNA Biomedicine’s community warmly thanks UM’s postdocs for their tremendous contributions to the field of RNA research and to the life of our scientific community. According to the U-M Postdoctoral Association (UMPDA), an estimated 1,400 to 1,600…
We are thrilled to announce that Mats Ljungman, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Center for RNA Biomedicine at the University of Michigan, has just been awarded a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the purpose of continuing his groundbreaking work with precision-targeting KLIPP cancer therapy – the project’s highest funding by…
The Center for RNA Biomedicine is offering Grant Sprints. For more information, please contact Maria Stieve. Photo: Grant Sprint at the U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine, October 2019, clockwise from left to right, Elizabeth Tidwell, Markos Koutmos, Aaron Frank, Brandon Ruotolo, Varun Gadkari. Curiosity and passion lead scientists to their field of research, but a…
The scientific journey of Bambarendage (Pini) Perera, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health Diet, exercise, or environmental exposures have an impact on how our genes are activated or silenced. These factors do not permanently affect our DNA, but they can interfere with our gene expression by acting upon 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…
Day Month Date Start End Scientific Tool/Approach in RNA Monday Sep 10 3:00 PM 4:00 PM Transcriptome analysis Monday Oct 1 3:00 PM 4:00 PM Computational Analysis Monday Oct 15 3:00 PM 4:00 PM Molecular Biology Monday Nov 19 3:00 PM 4:00 PM Cell Biology Monday Nov 26 3:00 PM 4:00 PM Genetics Monday Dec…
