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

Jacqueline Lees
Faculty Spotlight

Jacqueline Lees

Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research

Jacqueline Lees develops mouse and zebrafish models, identifying the molecular pathways leading to tumor formation.

Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten

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

New study reveals how cleft lip and cleft palate can arise

Restoring healthy gene expression with programmable therapeutics

Helping the immune system attack tumors

Taking the pulse of sex differences in the heart

AI model deciphers the code in proteins that tells them where to go

Cellular interactions help explain vascular complications due to COVID-19 virus infection