Scientist to watch, disease & medicine

The newly minted Baylor College of Medicine faculty member is working to crack the mystery of triple negative breast cancer.

The bioactive coating tethers restorative proteins to implanted tissues and fosters new growth, animal studies suggest.

The Salk Institute researcher was one of the first to show that killing a pathogen isn’t the only way to survive an infection.

Spurred by family tragedy, the medical physicist wants to treat cancer in a new way.

The Stanford University professor helped develop a technique to grow brain organoids from induced pluripotent stem cells.

The Francis Crick Institute neurobiologist aims to learn how physiological states, such as hunger, alter information processing in the brain.

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher is developing cancer therapeutics based on how the physical structure of DNA contributes to the disease.

The Michigan State University researcher’s lab experiences shaped her interest in the role of glucose in cancer’s spread.

The Duke University professor studies the parasite to find a way to thwart infection before it takes hold.

The University of Minnesota researcher is on the front lines in the fight against the disease.