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

Faculty Spotlight

David C. Page

Professor of Biology; Director, Whitehead Institute; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

David C. Page examines the genetic differences between males and females — and how these play out in disease, development, and evolution.

Immune cell variations contribute to malaria severity

Human Disease

Faculty

Laurie A. Boyer

Eliezer Calo

Jianzhu Chen

Leonard P. Guarente

Piyush Gupta

Michael T. Hemann

David Housman

Rudolf Jaenisch

Ankur Jain

Monty Krieger

Eric S. Lander

Jacqueline Lees

Harvey F. Lodish

David C. Page

Edward Scolnick

Hazel Sive

Stefani Spranger

Susumu Tonegawa

Jing-Ke Weng

Omer H. Yilmaz

Richard A. Young

David C. Page

Immune cell variations contribute to malaria severity

Parasite’s riff on essential enzyme highlights unique biology

Study suggests glaucoma may be an autoimmune disease

Researchers discover new type of lung cell, critical insights for cystic fibrosis

Sharpening the edges of cancer chemotherapy

Restricting a key cellular nutrient could slow tumor growth

Stem cell-derived zika model suggests mechanisms underlying microcephaly

Biologists discover how pancreatic tumors lead to weight loss