Research Labs

Kenneth Marians focuses on mechanisms of replication restart and chromosome segregation.

Joan Massagué studies the control of stem cell growth and phenotype in tumor progression, metastasis, and response to therapy.

Molecular and cell biologist Christine Mayr studies how 3′UTRs regulate protein functions and how mRNAs contribute to cytoplasmic organization.

Physician-scientist Babak Mehrara studies the regulation of lymphatic regeneration after surgery and development of lymphedema.

Physician-scientist Ingo Mellinghoff studies signal transduction alterations in primary brain tumors.

Luc Morris is a physician-scientist whose laboratory studies how tumor genetics influence the development of cancer, escape from immune surveillance, and immunotherapy outcomes in cancers of the head and neck and other sites.

Computational biologist Quaid Morris uses artificial intelligence techniques and develops machine learning algorithms to study gene regulation, cancer evolution, clinical informatics, and other topics in systems biology.

Physician-scientist Rachel Niec studies how cells and tissues communicate to promote health or drive inflammation and cancer.

Cell biologist Philipp Niethammer investigates tissue damage responses with advanced imaging approaches in zebrafish.

The Nikolov laboratory focuses on the structural, biophysical, and biochemical characterization of the molecular mechanisms of cell-cell interactions and signal transduction in the nervous system.