Human Disease

Human Disease

developmental disorders • cancer • atherosclerosis and heart disease • neuromuscular diseases • disease genes • genetic pathways of disease • etiology of disease • disease models • assay development • genomics • gene-function-pathology relationships

Yiyin Erin Chen
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Yiyin Erin Chen

Robert A. Swanson (1969) Career Development Professor of Life Sciences; Core Member, Broad Institute

Erin Chen studies how the microbes in our bodies educate our immune systems, in order to engineer microbial therapeutics for human disease.

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MIT Down syndrome researchers work on ways to ensure a healthy lifespan

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