Three research teams have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards, an annual awards ...

Two faculty members from Harvard Medical School are among the 65 newly elected fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific leadership group within the American Society for ...

Alvin Francis Poussaint, professor of psychiatry, emeritus, at Harvard Medical School, died on Feb. 24 at age 90 after a short illness. He died peacefully at home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, with ...

Behind every new drug or vaccine is a journey. It often begins with curiosity. As researchers seek to understand the biological and chemical underpinnings of disease, they generate knowledge that ...

Researchers identify a new player in human immunity that can go rogue and turn the immune system against the body’s own ...

Three key players share the story of how fundamental discoveries in the laboratory became a first-of-its-kind therapy that promises to have a monumental impact on sickle cell disease patients around ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School, a patient helped inspire him to study the genetics of sickle cell disease alongside his mentor, Stuart H. Orkin, in a laboratory at ...

The scientists uncovered two groups of brain cells in mice: one that helps mice learn about above-average outcomes and ...

Congratulations to the HMS/HSDM 2024 graduates! The MD, DMD, master’s, and PhD graduation celebrations and ceremonies were ...