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  • Reean Abdullah at the lab bench
    Reean Abdullah named inaugural recipient of Irene M. Jones Graduate Fellowship
    The School of Molecular & Cellular Biology is pleased to announce that Reean Abdullah, a PhD candidate in the Jie Chen lab, has been awarded the inaugural Irene M. Jones Graduate Fellowship.Established as an approximately $25,000 award, the fellowship was established by Dr. Irene Jones (PhD, ’...
  • Pallob Barai and Reean Abdullah at the lab bench
    MCB researchers uncover a novel mechanism of STAT3 activation in cancer
    One day, on assignment researching non-canonical functions of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases — housekeeping enzymes essential for protein synthesis — Pallob Barai noticed an intriguing pattern.“A particular AARS enzyme, TARS1, was found to be correlated with poor patient survival in different cancers,...