Mitochondria — the powerhouses of cells — import molecules to generate energy and many necessary molecules for the cell. But what happens when something goes wrong? This was the big picture question that JCC Fellow […]

The Jane Coffin Childs Fund thanks Anjana Rao for her eight years of service on the Board of Scientific Advisors. When Rao joined the BSA, she was just transitioning from Harvard Medical School to the […]

Caption: The images show the orientation of integrins (yellow and green lines) at the leading edge (red lines) of a migrating white blood cell and within the focal adhesions (magenta lines) of a migrating fibroblast, […]

Hao Wu, assistant professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania and former JCC Fellow (2011 -2014), recently won an NIH New Innovator Award. The award grants $1.5 million over five years to pursue to […]

Caption: Wild type human prostate cells from an organoid (a man-made construct that resembles an organ). (National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health)   Genetic differences in prostate cancer tumors drive the composition of immune […]