September 02, 2008

Dr. Nicole Noyes of NYU Fertility Center along with Dr. Kristin Gunsalus of NYU's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology was recently awarded $1 million from the National Institutes of Health. Their collaborative study, titled "A Systems Biology Approach to Mammalian Early Embryogenesis," will build a systems view of early embryonic development in mouse and human, an approach that has been very successful in the worm, C. elegans. This work will have direct implications for diagnosis of embryonic viability in a clinical setting and the mouse work will provide insights into complex phenotypes associated with a variety of developmental and metabolic disorders, as well as other disease processes, including cancer.