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Blog for the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology at UMass Chan Medical School. Check here for updates about the achievements of our trainees, staff and faculty.

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    03/17/23

    St. Patrick's Day, Snakes and biochemiStry!

    Happy St. Patrick's Day! Join us to learn about the biochemistry of snake venoms, and how they might be used to treat a variety of human diseases!

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  • from Paul Thompson's lab, Structure of the Peptidyl arginine deiminase (PAD) 2 that catalyze the conversion of arginine residues to citrulline residues on target proteins in the presence of calcium ions.
    03/06/23

    BMB highlights research on PAD enzymes for Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month

    For Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month, we are featuring the work of Dr. Paul Thompson in our department. The goal of his research is to develop drugs to inhibit a family of proteins called PAD's that play a major role in the pathology of many different autoimmune diseases.

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