Mat Disney Scripps

Gene regulation is the study of how cells turn certain genes on or off and plays a central role in the development and treatment of cancer.

Mat disney scripps. 3 in proceedings of the national academies of sciences the study is authored by scripps research chemistry professor matthew d. Watch as he desc. From small molecule microarrays to chemical similarity searching topics in medicinal chemistry 2017 27 1 16. If dna serves as the code of life genes within dna provide the code for specific proteins.

Disney is currently a full professor in the bi coastal department of chemistry and the department of neuroscience at the scripps research institute. Fort lauderdale fl saying his discoveries had launched a new front in the war on disease florida s statewide biotechnology industry organization bioflorida today named scripps research chemistry professor matthew disney phd the 2018 weaver h. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover matthew s. View matthew disney s profile on linkedin the world s largest professional community.

In this front row lecture assistant professor michael erb will share his research applying chemical tools to study how chromatin a molecular machine that plays a key role in transcription becomes disrupted in cancer. Computational tools for design of selective small molecules targeting rna. Among them is myotonic dystrophy type 1 dm1 the most common form of adult on set muscular dystrophy. Jupiter chemist matthew disney named bioflorida s entrepreneur of the year.

Matthew has 2 jobs listed on their profile. Matthew d disney rna repeat expansions are responsible for more than 30 incurable diseases. Disney phd graduate student peiyuan zhang and their colleagues. His laboratory is focused on understanding rna ligand interactions and exploiting this information to rationally design small molecules that modulate rna function or toxicity from sequence.

2010 2014 associate professor chemistry scripps research 2005 2010 assistant professor university at buffalo the state university of new york 2002 2005 postdoctoral fellow. Scripps research chemist matthew disney ph d and colleagues have created drug like compounds that in human cell studies bind and destroy the pandemic coronavirus so called frameshifting.