Congratulations Chao Lu, PhD, Genetics & Development, and Mijo Simunovic, PhD, Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, who received awards from the Schaefer Research Scholars Program.
A study with genetics professor Yousin Suh, Director of the Reproductive Aging Program at CUIMC. She is co-leading this trial with Dr. Zev Williams, head of the Columbia University Fertility Center.
Dr. Cheng has assembled a multi-disciplinary research team to investigate the food-gene regulatory networks involved in driving tumor initiation and development of early-onset colorectal cancer.
Here they show CPSF6 deficiency in human patients and zebrafish causes neurological, skeletal, and cardiovascular defects by altering poly(A) site choice to modulate protein levels during development.