Part of the NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, the Transformative Research Award supports individuals and teams ...

David Walt, the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Bioinspired Engineering at HMS and professor of pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is operating at a microscopic level, observing cell abnormalities ...

CHASERR is unlike traditional genes, which are used as blueprints for making messenger RNA and proteins that perform various functions in cells. Instead, CHASERR codes for a long noncoding RNA, or ...

Gary Ruvkun, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of ...

We know that many things influence people’s health, including genetics, behavior, environmental exposure, and socioeconomic factors. One contributor, however, often goes unappreciated: civic ...

Colorized microscopic views of the different structures of the small (left) and large (right) intestine in a developing chick. Image: Hasreet Gill At a glance: Pair of studies in chick embryos ...

Community awards received by current Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine faculty, postdocs, staff, and students can be found, categorized by calendar year, on the Office of ...

Some endowed professorships are intended to honor expertise within a broad field of study (e.g., psychiatry), whereas others have a more specific focus. Incumbents are appointed in recognition of ...

Gary Ruvkun with daughter Victoria Ruvkun (left), dog Barnaby, and wife Natasha Staller the morning of the announcement at their home in Newton. Image: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University At a ...