Christine Vogel is a German-American molecular biologist who is an associate professor at the New York University.
She left London for Cambridge for her doctoral research, where she specialized in computational biology in the laboratory of Cyrus Chothia.
She demonstrated that the process of generating RNA from DNA is pulsed-like: brief spikes of activity that relax to a ground state, whereas the creation of proteins was more like an on-off switch.
[2] Vogel is interested in how genes respond to different stressors[3] and how certain environmental conditions can give rise to mutations such as cancer.
[4] Vogel believes that by understanding the pathways involved with these processes she will be able to design drugs to counter this BRCA1 mutation.