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

Assistant Professor of Biology; Member, Whitehead Institute

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

Researchers discover new source of drug resistance in pancreatic cancer

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

Researchers discover new source of drug resistance in pancreatic cancer

BioGenesis Podcast: Episode 3

Study links certain metabolites to stem cell function in the intestine

Speeding up drug discovery for brain diseases

Multi “-omics” approach uncovers the riches of traditional global medicine

Genetic study takes research on sex differences to new heights

Researchers identify important proteins hijacked by pathogens during cell-to-cell spread

Drug makes tumors more susceptible to chemo