Nien-Pei Tsai (IMAGE)

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Nien-Pei Tsai

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Nien-Pei Tsai, a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, led a team of researchers to establish the protein p53 as critical for regulating sociability, repetitive behavior, and hippocampus-related learning and memory in mice, illuminating the relationship between the protein-coding gene TP53 and neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders like autism spectrum disorder.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

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