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Battling antibiotic resistance in the lab and the clinic

Broad Institute

He majored in biological chemistry at the University of Chicago and during his junior year, he had a fortuitous meeting with his academic advisor about finding a student research position that would let him dive more deeply into the molecular details of biological systems. A combined MD/PhD program offered both opportunities.

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Women in Stem with Joanne Kanaan

Drug Target Review

When choosing my bachelor’s degree, the choice was between pursuing a career in biology or in computer science. Biology won that battle, and I pursued a bachelor’s and master’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology.

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Breaking the Speed Limit on Cell Division

Codon

During my doctoral training, I split my work between wet lab research and programming, two streams that differed radically in terms of productivity. Proteins are colored blue and RNA molecules are colored orange and yellow. RNA and proteins comprise each ribosome, but the cell synthesizes these two biomolecules at different rates.

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

Elrig

She has played a key role inbuilding the target identification platform and a proprietary database of transcriptome-wide, functional RNA structures. Having a combination of computational skills & scientific knowledge such as molecular biology, genomics is also important.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

in Current Biology. There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. ” Wellcome Collection , London I wrapped up my series on “30 Days of Great Biology Papers.” Because it turns out that at least half of them , in humans, also bind to RNA molecules.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

in Current Biology. There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. ” Wellcome Collection , London I wrapped up my series on “30 Days of Great Biology Papers.” Because it turns out that at least half of them , in humans, also bind to RNA molecules.

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Women in Stem August: Meet Theonie Anastassiadis

Drug Target Review

I then chose to do my doctoral research at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, which provided me with great scientific training, critical thinking, and communication skills. in cell and molecular biology with a focus in cancer biology from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

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