Dr. Richard Gomer
Human Disease and Development
In Dr. Gomer's lab, student investigators can work on
a variety of projects that study aspects of developmental
biology and human disease. One project involves protein
biochemistry to elucidate a blood factor that appears to
be at abnormally low levels in adults with a disease called
scleroderma and children with interstitial lung disease.
Century Scholars and other students are currently helping
with experiments that are indicating that injections of
the blood protein in animals can work as a therapy for diseases
such as pulmonary fibrosis. Another project involves videotaping
moving cells, and then using computer graphics to track
the cells and study how the cells organize themselves to
form structures of a defined size and shape. Students can
also conduct research using molecular biology techniques
to study genes that regulate tissue size and shape. These
projects are important parts of our research, and the work
done by a previous Century Scholar in our lab resulted in
his being an author on two papers.
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