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At the recent Applied Pharmaceutical Chemistry meeting in Boston Ben Munoz, director of Medicinal Chemistry within the Ó³»­´«Ã½â€™s Chemical Biology Platform, spoke about the exciting work he and others at the Ó³»­´«Ã½ have been doing for the past year screening the Ó³»­´«Ã½â€™s unique small molecule library against targets in infectious and neglected diseases, like malaria and Chagas disease.

Many people know the Ó³»­´«Ã½ as a leader in the study of human genetics. But did you know that as part of this work our researchers look into the genomes of other animals? The following video highlights the work Ó³»­´«Ã½ scientists are doing to unravel cancer genes found in the purebred Golden Retriever. The goal of the project is not only to find genes that cause cancer in these dogs but also to make a link with similar cancer-related genes in people. 

 

On a drizzly Monday afternoon, clinical pathologist Chin-Lee Wu sits down at an unoccupied desk a few feet away from one of the Ó³»­´«Ã½â€™s bustling laboratories and gets ready to examine over 100 slides beneath a microscope. Chin-Lee is a surgical pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital where he specializes in urological cancers, including prostate, kidney, and bladder cancers. For the last three years, he has also served as a consultant pathologist for the Ó³»­´«Ã½, peering at prepared slides of cancer samples and making sense of the cellular disarray. (See more in the video below.)