Victor Ambros has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine!

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About the Baehrecke Lab

Our lab studies how autophagy (self eating) is regulated and functions in complex multi-cellular organisms.  Autophagy is used to clear materials from cells, and helps to maintain cell health.  Researchers in the laboratory screen for novel mechanisms that control autophagy, and determine how autophagy functions to promote cell health and cell death in different cells and tissues within animals.