Awards MCO Graduate Student Mackenzie Smith Awarded NSF Fellowship Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | July 23, 2024 MCO graduate student Mackenzie Smith of Ya-Chieh Hsu’s lab in SCRB has received a grant…karnottJuly 23, 2024 Read More
Awards UMass Chan Neuroscientist Receives $4.1 Million Transformative Research Award to Study Down Syndrome UMass Chan Medical School | July 22, 2024 Summer Thyme, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry & molecular biotechnology, is the recipient of a…karnottJuly 22, 2024 Read More
Local News Gene Silencing Tool Has a Need for Speed Whitehead Institute | July 22, 2024 RNA interference (RNAi) is a process that many organisms, including humans, use to decrease the…karnottJuly 22, 2024 Read More
Local News New AI Software Could Make Diagnosing Dementia Easier and Faster for Doctors The Brink | July 22, 2024 Although Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia—a catchall term for cognitive deficits that…karnottJuly 22, 2024 Read More
Awards Congratulations to the 2024 Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Award Winners Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine | July 19, 2024 The Russek Student Achievement Awards celebrate the ongoing accomplishments of GMS students at Boston University…karnottJuly 19, 2024 Read More
Local News How Machine Learning Is Propelling Structural Biology Harvard Medical School | July 19, 2024 For Lucas Farnung, there is no question more fascinating than how a single fertilized egg…karnottJuly 19, 2024 Read More
Local News Targeted Drug Treatment Leads Tumor Cells to Imitate Viral Infection Broad Institute | July 19, 2024 A number of cancers, including certain brain and liver tumors, as well as myeloid leukemias,…karnottJuly 19, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Specially Equipped Natural Killer Cells Show Effectiveness Against the Most Common Form of Ovarian Cancer Tarannum , M., et al. | July 18, 2024 Natural killer, or NK, cells endowed with memory-like abilities and armed with a novel chimeric…karnottJuly 18, 2024 Read More
Local News Lupus Center at UMass Chan Investigating Car T Cell Therapy for Severe or Nonresponsive Lupus Nephritis UMass Chan Medical School | July 18, 2024 Once a month, Talaya Reid wakes up early to board a flight from Philadelphia to…karnottJuly 18, 2024 Read More
Awards Jeeyun Chung Earns Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship and Charles H. Hood Foundation Grant Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | July 18, 2024 MCB faculty Jeeyun Chung has both received a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience and a…karnottJuly 18, 2024 Read More