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 ...
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 ...
Part of the NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, the Transformative Research Award supports individuals and teams ...
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 ...
Nine HMS faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Election to the NAM recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical ...
Faster than a speeding bullet: Like Superman, artificial intelligence is being taken up at a startling rate — more rapidly, even, than the personal computer and the internet were when those ...