University of Arizona

Dr. Jacob C. Schwartz will be joining the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department in August 2014 as our newest Assistant Professor. Jacob is coming from UC Boulder where he has been an NIH postdoctoral fellow since 2010 in the lab of Dr. Thomas Cech.  Jacob's research interest is in the area of non-coding RNA regulation of gene expression.

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