Welcome to Zerina Balic who joins our lab as our first Associate Researcher. Zerina recieved her BA from NYU in Biology and has worked as a Research Assistant at Tisch Multiple Sclerosis Research Center and the NYU Langone Medical Center Neuroscience Institute. She will join the Hubmacher lab team in studying how extracellular matrix proteins guide musculoskeletal tissue development and homeostasis through the exploration of the mechanistic and molecular aspects of extracellular protein networks comprised of fibrillin microfibrils, ADAMTS proteases and ADAMTS-like proteins.
“Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows traces of her workings apart from the beaten path; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature by the careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease. For it has been found in almost all things, that what they contain of useful or of applicable nature, is hardly perceived unless we are deprived of them, or they become deranged in some way.”
-William Harvey (Physician-Scientist), 1578-1657