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Lauren received her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Alabama and her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the mentorship of Prof. Steve Zimmerman. There she became fascinated by RNA structure as a means for targeted therapies. She went on to study RNA folding thermodynamics in cells under the guidance of Profs. Dan Herschlag (Stanford) and Silvi Rouskin (Harvard Medical School). Inspired by her research in fundamental biochemistry and translational chemical biology, Lauren started her lab at Texas A&M University in the Department of Chemistry in 2024 to develop methods to measure and predict RNA folding and protein-binding in cells and modulate these interactions with small molecules for therapeutic intervention in cancer. She hopes that work in her lab will reveal core principles of RNA-mediated gene expression and uncover novel disease targets in oncology.

Email: ldhagler[at]tamu.edu

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