What appeals most to former JCCF Fellow Jennifer Schmidt about academic science are the many facets of the work, especially teaching and having the intellectual freedom to explore different questions. While continuing the genomic imprinting […]
As a post-doc studying stem cell biology at Harvard University, Alice Chen found that shed come full circle to the very questions that inspired her interest in science as a child. The reason I went […]
When Michiko Taga began her post-doc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003, she never imagined that it would lead her to solving a longstanding mystery about vitamin B12, a vitamin that is fundamental […]
Some neurodegenerative diseases appear only as we age, even if the associated mutations are present and expressed throughout life. Former JCCF Fellow Michael Palladino started examining how such diseases change with time as a post-doc […]
A growing number of diseases are associated with protein misfolding in the endoplasmic reticulum, including the chronic lung disease cystic fibrosis. Since ending her JCCF Fellowship in 2005, Liz Miller has extended her endoplasmic reticulum […]