Welcome to The Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine at the Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine
NYU Medical Center's prestigious basic research facility, dedicated to advancing the understanding of the molecular functioning of living organisms.

Developmental Genetics
How spatial organization of the body plan is achieved during embryogenesis such that a single egg cell gives rise to a highly structured organism.

Molecular Neurobiology
Understanding the generation of neural cells and their tragets and the mechanisms that allow axons to find their targets, to form synapses and to signal one another.

Molecular Pathogenesis
Molecular mechanisms of the immune response, interactions of pathogenic organisms with their hosts, and means of maintaining healthy cells.

Structural Biology
Elucidation of molecular structure as a means of understanding mechanisms involved in membrane transport, cell signaling, RNA regulation, DNA replication, cell adhesion.