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Albert Sherman Center
The Department of Genomics and Computational Biology occupies 7,000 square-feet on the 4th and 5th floors of the Albert Sherman Center (ASC). The ASC cutting edge design integrates research and teaching in an exciting collaborative environment.
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UMass Chan, QurAlis Corporation partnership expands on biomedical research by Joel Richter
UMass Chan Medical School and QurAlis Corporation, a clinical-stage biotechnology company investigating treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia and other neurodegenerative and neurological diseases, have formed a collaboration to investigate an antisense oligonucleotide technology for the potential treatment of fragile X syndrome.
Category: School of Medicine,Faculty,Research,Jonathan K. Watts,RNA Therapeutics Institute,Program in Molecular Medicine,Latest News,Top Stories
Read morePrincipal Investigators
Nezar Abdennur, Ph.D.
Andres Colubri, Ph.D.
Manuel Garber, Ph.D.
Elinor Karlsson, Ph.D.
Jill Moore, Ph.D.
Teng-Ting (Elaine) Lim, Ph.D.
Lingfei Wang, Ph.D.
Zhiping Weng, Ph.D.
Research Faculty
Frances Chen, DVM, Ph.D.
Alper Kucukural, Ph.D.
Rachel Daniels, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Carolina Salomao Lopes, Ph.D.
Research Specialist
Kathryn Lord, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Gaurav Chauhan, Ph.D.
Lucas Rocha-Moreira, Ph.D.
Tianxiong Yu, Ph.D.
Bioinformaticians
Pepper Dawes
Sophia Fortier
Thomas Jacob
Mansi Khandpekar
Salihu Musa
Nishigandha Phalke
Huong Phan
UX Designer
Yinan Dong
Mobile App Developer
Andonaq Grozdani
Software Engineers
Hung Hong
Jonathan Fisher
Research Program Manager
Vedat Yilmaz
Research Associates
Nathaniel Barton
Liam Murray
Meagan Olson
Jon Sundstrom
Research Data Specialists
Brittney Kenney
Graduate Students
Greg Andrews
Yuming Cao
Gaurav Chauhan
Samantha Chigas
Shaimae Elhajjajy
Mingshi Gao
Christopher Husted
Winnie Mkandawire
Adrian Orszulak
Thomas Reimonn
Shuo (Crystal) Shan
Nicole Shedd
Vista Sohrab
Askar Temirbek
Yuqing Wang
Visiting Scholars