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.

Ragon faculty finds intricate functions of Resident Tissue Macrophages (RTM’s) extend beyond immune defense

Uncovering answers to longstanding questions about sex differences in autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases

News brief: Calo Lab

How early-stage cancer cells hide from the immune system

How phase separation is revolutionizing biology

What can super-healing species teach us about regeneration?

Protein production glitches in Huntington’s disease revealed

Sex chromosomes responsible for much more than determining sex