Zebra fish could lead to improved treatments for a variety of human ailments.
Gaurav
OMRF, Stanford research collaboration awarded $2.6 million in funding
OMRF and Stanford have received a four-year grant to use zebrafish to study how small genetic variations can lead to several human diseases.
Federal grant brings $13.1 million to OMRF labs
The award is part of the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) program.
OMRF adds three to scientific faculty
A trio of new principal scientists have joined OMRF.
A Cut Above
When Dr. Gaurav Varshney arrived at OMRF in late 2016, the first things he purchased for his new research program were fish tanks. Lots of them. During a seven-year post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Varshney developed an expertise in studying developmental biology in paperclip-sized aquatic creatures known as zebrafish. […]