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

Eliezer Calo

Irwin W. and Helen Sizer Career Development Assistant Professor

Eliezer Calo studies how cells build ribosomes and how dysfunction in ribosome biogenesis and function leads to tissue-specific developmental disorders and cancer.

Speeding up drug discovery for brain diseases

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

Eliezer Calo

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

Study reveals how glial cells may play key epilepsy role

Meet the MIT Bio Faculty: Stefani Spranger

A Troubling Inheritance