6/17/2025
Our research focus is to understand the structure and function of unusual DNA sequences in living cells, and how these sequences cause genome instability and lead to human diseases. Human…
6/17/2025
Our mission is to understand how signaling molecules mediate cardiomyocyte growth, hypertrophy, and heart failure. We use novel approaches based on fruit fly genetics to identify genes that cause or…
6/17/2025
Analysis of the role of TGIFs during development. TGIF proteins are transcriptional repressors, which regulate TGFβ signaling and have been suggested to repress retinoid regulated gene expression. Mutations in human TGIF…
6/17/2025
The cardiovascular system is the first organ system to form in vertebrates and it is essential for embryonic survival. This system continually grows and remodels to meet the increasing energetic…
6/17/2025
How gene expression is regulated in chromatin is a fundamental question in molecular biology. The transcription program is a major determinant of cell identity; transcriptional regulation is involved in many…
6/17/2025
During the development of chronic lung disease, repetitive environmental insults/injuries, such as cigarette smoke, respiratory viruses infection and allergy lead to ineffective repair in the genetically susceptible subjects. Molecular understanding on…
6/17/2025
Alloimmunity in Transfusion and Transplantation , Oxidant Stress Biology in Health and Disease
6/17/2025
To treat cancer effectively, great efforts have been devoted to molecularly targeted therapy. While there have been great examples of success, cancer cells often develop drug resistance to evade therapy.…
