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
Faculty Spotlight

Yiyin Erin Chen

Assistant Professor of Biology; 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.

Meet the MIT Bio Faculty: Sara Prescott

Study explains why certain immunotherapies don’t always work as predicted

SARS-Cov-2, the virus behind Covid-19, can infect sensory neurons

Without a key extracellular protein, neuronal axons break and synaptic connections fall apart

MIT alum filling in the gaps in urology research

3 Questions: Sara Prescott on the brain-body connection

Gene-editing technique could speed up study of cancer mutations

Seychelle Vos and Hernandez Moura Silva named HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars