The Jane Coffin Childs Fund would like to thank Dr. Carol Prives and Dr. Luis Parada for their years of service to the organization. Carol Prives, the Da Costa Professor in the Department of Cell […]

Caption: The OSCA1.2 mechanically activated ion channel. Source: Jojoa-Cruz, Saotome, et al, eLife 2018;7:e41845 doi: 10.7554/eLife.41845 (CC-BY-4.0) A punch versus a caress. The feel of Velcro versus silk. Our sense of touch distinguishes between these […]

  Two small molecules can synergistically inhibit prostate cancer cell proliferation, according to recent research published in Biochemistry by Beth Zucconi. The research focuses on p300, an enzyme that regulates cell growth, differentiation, and gene […]

  Ralph Isberg recently joined the Jane Coffin Childs Board of Scientific Advisors. A professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology at Tufts, he has studied bacterial pathogenesis for decades, asking questions like, “How are intracellular […]

Dr. Joan Steitz, former Jane Coffin Childs Fellow and former Chair of the Fund, was recently honored with the prestigious Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science “for four decades of leadership in biomedical science […]