Rachel Patton McCord

Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology

Rachel Patton McCord

Rachel McCord is an expert in the human genome — the DNA instructions that make up a human cell. She studies how the six feet of DNA folds up and fit into every human cell and how this folding goes wrong in diseases such as cancer.

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College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology


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