Welcome Stephanie Moon, Ph.D.

Dr. Stephanie Moon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan (U-M) Medical School, and a faculty scholar at the U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine. She joined our RNA community in January 2020, and is the first RNA BSI faculty hire.

Dr. Moon brings to Michigan an extensive experience in the regulation of messenger RNA translation, single molecule level localization, and degradation in the contexts of stress and human disease.

Prior to coming to the U-M, Dr. Moon was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Post-doctoral Fellow with Roy Parker at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She received a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology and Chemistry from Fort Lewis College and her Ph.D. in Pathology from Colorado State University.

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