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Women in STEM July: Meet Michelle Arkin

Drug Target Review

For my PhD project, I chose an advisor who worked on DNA and I started working with her on the physical properties of DNA. I worked with Jackie Barton in the early days of what’s now called DNA-mediated electron transfer. And that was a very controversial idea.

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How nucleolar stress accelerates aging in mice

Drug Target Review

For his postdoctoral stay he joined the group of André Nussenzweig, where he started to work on DNA repair, particularly focusing on the role of histone H2AX. These compounds were later licensed to the pharmaceutical industry for clinical development.

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AI At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery

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With a background in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, she has a keen interest in using technology to solve problems in healthcare and medicine. Harini joined Serna Bio in early 2021 and has been an integral part of the multidisciplinary teamworking on target ID platform development to drug discovery.

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TACACICLIB, AUR-102, AURIGENE

New Drug Approvals

As such, it has been proposed that inhibiting CDK7 would provide a potent means of inhibiting cell cycle progression, which may be especially relevant given that there is compelling evidence from gene knockout studies in mice for lack of an absolute requirement for CDK2, CDK4 and CDK6 for the cell cycle at least in most cell types (M alumbres et al.,