The Mueller Laboratory

Place

The Mueller Lab is proudly located at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California

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The Dorris Neuroscience Center (DNC) at The Scripps Research Institute was established to apply the new molecular understanding of biology to reduce the prevalence of childhood and neglected diseases and to treat the patients who have them. Diseases of both categories often affect populations in developing countries, where the health infrastructure may be too poor to support major research efforts on these problems.

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An understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of disease requires that the basic mechanisms that regulate the physiology of the healthy organism are elucidated at the molecular and organismic level. Investigators at the DNC use genomics and advanced imaging techniques, develop novel model animal systems, and apply the technologies and systems in an effort to understand the function of the healthy organism, and pathophysiological changes that cause diseases, such as malaria, mental retardation, neurodegenerative diseases, neuropahtic pain, deafness, sleep disorders, migraines, and epilepsy.

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