Heinen Lab
The Heinen laboratory is interested in the molecular mechanism of the human DNA mismatch repair pathway and in understanding why defects in this pathway are associated with the hereditary cancer predisposition disease Lynch syndrome.
Research in the Molecular Biology and Biophysics department focuses on understanding the proteins and pathways affected in human disease. From the structural biology of cancer drug targets to the mechanistic interplay between viruses and human cells, MBB labs study the basic molecular processes underlying human illnesses.
Our department can be divided into five thematic areas:
