Women Faculty Forum honors six with excellence awards
The Women Faculty Forum honored six winners of the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Excellence Awards on July 23 in the Fifth Floor Gallery. The WFF Excellence Awards recognize outstanding contributions made by women faculty at the Medical School….
Circadian rhythm research published in Cell Reports
Recent research from the lab of Kristin Eckel-Mahan, PhD, associate professor at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, has been published in the June edition of Cell Reports. The paper, titled “Cell-specific regulation of the circadian clock by BMAL1…
Kolonin lab discovers novel function of telomerase in vascular cells
Ramifications of vascular senescence for organ physiology is the subject of the study published in Aging Cell by a research team led by Mikhail Kolonin, PhD, professor and Harry E. Bovay, Jr. Distinguished University Chair in Metabolic Disease Research with…
Doris produces novel murine reference genome assembly
As the world’s leading resource for disseminating genomic information, the NIH’s National Center for Biotechnology Information places special emphasis on three mammalian species that are key to medical research. A recent addition to these genomes has been produced in a…
Research on brain regulation of appetite published in Neuron
Recent research from the lab of Qingchun Tong, PhD, professor and Cullen Chair in Molecular Medicine, studying how the brain regulates reduced appetite in response to environmental stress has been published in Neuron. The article titled, “An excitatory projection from…
Research on feeding and anxiety regulation published in Cell Reports
Recent research from the lab of Qingchun Tong, PhD, professor in the Center for Metabolic Degenerative Diseases and Cullen Chair in Molecular Medicine, on the ability of emotion neurons in the brain to regulate feeding and anxiety has been published…