Florian Merkle, Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and former JCC Fellow (2008-2011), was awarded the 2017 Young Investigator Award from the American Association of Anatomists, which recognizes “important contributions to biomedical science through their […]

Caption: Research revealed a subtle change in the Chloride Channel (CLC) that influences its function. Image Credit: Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics/The Rockefeller University Chloride and other ions pass across cell membranes through channels made of […]

Caption: Five days after an injury to young mouse skin (blue), new skin cells (green) fill the wound (top). When researchers turned down expression of a protein skin cells use to talk to nearby immune cells, […]

Caption: Using an imaging method called single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and accompanying analysis tools, scientists deciphered some of the key steps for how ribosomes are assembled, a first step in understanding their roles in health and […]

Professor Li-Huei Tsai, director of MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Photo by Bryce Vickmark. The Jane Coffin Childs Fund is pleased to welcome Dr. Li-Huei Tsai, professor of neuroscience at MIT, to the JCC Board of […]