Monthly Archives: May 2012

Emory med student makes early-career contribution on inherited metabolic disorder

May 23rd, 2012 (No Comments)

Medical student Colin O’Shea is the first author on a paper published May 21 in the journal Pediatrics. Before beginning medical school, O’Shea worked at the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. He was working with Charles Venditti, MD, PhD, a leading researcher at NHGRI studying methylmalonic acidemia(MMA) MMA […]

Dysbindin, a bad actor in schizophrenia

May 21st, 2012 (No Comments)

Cell biologist Victor Faundez has been getting some attention for his research on dysbindin, a protein linked to schizophrenia. The information helps to make sense of the complex picture emerging from genetic studies of schizophrenia. Genetics plays a major role in schizophrenia, but there is no one gene that pulls the trigger. The gene encoding […]