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Innovative assays for drug discovery and development


Caitlin Mills (left) is a lecturer in systems biology at Harvard Medical School (HMS; MA, USA) and Director of Preclinical Pharmacology in the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology (LSP) at HMS. Caitlin completed a PhD in Medical Physics, during which time she measured radiation effects on cells. She carried many of these skills over to the LSP, but instead of measuring the effects of radiation, she started measuring the effects of drugs on cells. She quickly realized that drugs reported to have the same effect or the same targets actually induce quite different phenotypes in cells. This realization sparked her interest...

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