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

Ankur Jain

Thomas D. and Virginia M. Cabot Career Development Professor; Member, Whitehead Institute

Ankur Jain investigates the role of RNA self-assembly in cellular organization and neurodegenerative disease.

Cancer researchers collaborate, target DNA damage repair pathways for cancer therapy

Human Disease

Faculty

Laurie A. Boyer

Eliezer Calo

Jianzhu Chen

Leonard P. Guarente

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

Ankur Jain

Cancer researchers collaborate, target DNA damage repair pathways for cancer therapy

Type 1 diabetes from a beta cell’s perspective

These genes help explain how malaria parasites survive treatment with common drug

Covid-19 scientific leaders share expertise in new MIT class

Block and Lock: Unique HIV Reservoirs in Elite Controllers

A computational approach to cancer

Bridging research and medicine

SMART research enhances dengue vaccination in mice