A news item on Dr. Rao's recent paper on the novel antifungal
activity of amiodarone has been highlighted in the
July 24 issue of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.
Recent work from the Reeves lab shows the basis for reduced cancer
incidence in Down syndrome, using mouse models to identify a specific
gene that acts as a dosage sensitve repressor of tumors. Read
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The
research mission of the Department of Physiology is to explore how the complex
cellular phenotypes that underlie the integrated functions of the tissues and
organ systems comprising higher living organisms, emerge from the genomic code.
Our research program extends from computational methods to developmental genetics
and post-genomic strategies --from bacteria and yeast, to zebrafish, mouse, and
man.
William Guggino, Ph.D.
Director
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