The Ubellacker Lab leverages metabolic vulnerabilities in metastasizing cells to target and treat cancer, with a focus on exploiting lipidomic dependencies of cancer cells. We are working to discover mechanisms that explain how lipid availability in the...
Malaria remains a major public health threat with more than 225 million people infected worldwide and one fourth of the world's population is at risk for infection. More than a million children die from malaria each year, most of them in Africa. Drug...
Despite years of research, tuberculosis remains a leading killer, causing almost two million deaths each year worldwide. While the treatment for drug-sensitive disease is effective, it requires supervised therapy for extended periods of time and remains...
