Awards Takato Honda Receives MIT Infinite Expansion Award Picower Institute | June 1, 2026 At an MIT School of Science ceremony May 21, Picower Fellow Takato Honda, Research Scientist…karnottJune 1, 2026 Read More
Local News HSCI Announces New Co-Director Harvard Stem Cell Institute | May 29, 2026 Lee Rubin, Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and leading scholar of neurodegenerative disease,…karnottMay 29, 2026 Read More
Local News Can Humans Age Healthier? Researchers See Promising Paths Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health | May 29, 2026 A variety of interventions, ranging from drug therapies to dietary alterations to behavioral changes, may…karnottMay 29, 2026 Read More
Awards UMass Chan Scientist Receives $1.6 Million from National Institute of General Medical Sciences to Refine Gene Therapy Vectors UMass Chan Medical School | May 28, 2026 Phillip Tai, PhD, received a $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical…karnottMay 28, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week In Vivo CRISPR Screens Identify Modifiers of CAR T Cell Function in Myeloma Knudsen, N., et al. | September 25, 2025 Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are highly effective in haematological malignancies1. However, progressive loss…karnottSeptember 25, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Engineered Prime Editors With Minimal Genomic Errors Chauhan, V., et al. | September 19, 2025 Prime editors make programmed genome modifications by writing new sequences into extensions of nicked DNA…karnottSeptember 19, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week ABCA7 Variants Impact Phosphatidylcholine and Mitochondria in Neurons von Maydell, D., et al. | September 15, 2025 Loss-of-function variants in the lipid transporter ABCA7 substantially increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease1,2, yet…karnottSeptember 15, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Single-Cell Multiregion Epigenomic Rewiring in Alzheimer’s Disease Progression and Cognitive Resilience Liu, Z., et al. | September 12, 2025 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive cognitive decline, yet its epigenetic…karnottSeptember 12, 2025 Read More
Local News With Navigating Nematodes, Scientists Map Out How Brains Implement Behaviors Picower Institute | April 15, 2026 Animal behavior reflects a complex interplay between an animal’s brain and its sensory surroundings. Only…karnottApril 15, 2026 Read More
Local News How AML Leukemia Cells Use a “Sugar Coat” to Hide from the Immune System, CRISPR Screen Finds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | April 14, 2026 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers, in collaboration with the Broad Institute and Mass General Brigham, used…karnottApril 14, 2026 Read More
Local News How Stem Cell Descendants Preserve Flexibility While Maintaining Distinct Identities Whitehead Institute | April 14, 2026 Stem cells are the body’s ultimate shape-shifters, sustaining tissues by balancing two competing demands: maintaining…karnottApril 14, 2026 Read More
Local News Pulmonary Embolism Gets a Long Overdue Spotlight: New Guidelines, Clinical Insights and Research Directions Bench Press | April 13, 2026 Pulmonary embolism, or PE, is a serious and sometimes life-threatening condition that occurs when a…karnottApril 13, 2026 Read More
Awards Eleven MIT Faculty Receive Presidential Early Career Awards MIT Chemistry | February 10, 2025 Faculty members and additional MIT alumni are among 400 scientists and engineers recognized for outstanding…karnottFebruary 10, 2025 Read More
Awards CLRF Lipid Science Prize 2025 Camurus Lipid Research Foundation | February 7, 2025 Camurus Lipid Research Foundation – Kåre Larsson och Gunnar Sandbergs forskningsstiftelse1 – announced today that…karnottFebruary 7, 2025 Read More
Awards Maria Valadez Ingersoll Receives 16th Annual GSI Grand Prize Boston University Biology | February 6, 2025 Maria Valadez Ingersoll, a PhD student in the Gilmore and Davies labs, was recently awarded…karnottFebruary 6, 2025 Read More
Awards Introducing the 2024 Karches Prize Winners Koch Institute | February 4, 2025 Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Peter Karches Mentorship Prize — Shandon Amos, Christina…karnottFebruary 4, 2025 Read More
Awards Evelina Fedorenko Receives Troland Award From National Academy of Sciences McGovern Institute | February 3, 2025 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced today that McGovern Investigator Evelina Fedorenko will receive…karnottFebruary 3, 2025 Read More
Awards Lichtman Lab’s Collaborative Work Honored with 2024 Good Tech Award Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | January 31, 2025 A groundbreaking paper co-authored by the lab of MCB’s Jeff Lichtman has been named a…karnottJanuary 31, 2025 Read More
Awards PhD Candidate Alejandro Félix Mejía’s mRNA Research Funded by Kirschstein Award UMass Chan Medical School | January 29, 2025 Alejandro Félix Mejía, a PhD candidate in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences’ Interdisciplinary…karnottJanuary 29, 2025 Read More
Awards Announcing the 2025 Giuliani Scholars: Advancing Global Health Through Groundbreaking Research Ragon Institute | January 27, 2025 The Ragon Institute is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of the Giammaria and Sabrina…karnottJanuary 27, 2025 Read More
Awards Gilliard and Kulik Honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers MIT Chemistry | January 23, 2025 The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and…karnottJanuary 23, 2025 Read More
Awards Neuroscience Graduate Adam Lowet Wins Bowdoin Prize for Essay on Risk and Learning Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | January 21, 2025 Adam Lowet, a recent PhD graduate from Harvard’s Program in Neuroscience, has been awarded the…karnottJanuary 21, 2025 Read More
Awards Gaurav Gaiha Named the 2026 Giammaria and Sabrina Giuliani MGB Research Scholar Ragon Institute | June 12, 2026 Mass General Brigham has officially named Ragon faculty member Gaurav Gaiha, MD, DPhil, as the…karnottJune 12, 2026 Read More
Local News Harvard Hero Dominic Mao Turns Big Ideas Into Opportunities for Students Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | June 12, 2026 When Harvard announced its 2026 Harvard Heroes, one familiar name stood out to members of…karnottJune 12, 2026 Read More
Local News Researchers Publish First Complete Connectome of Fruit Fly Brain and ‘Spinal Cord’ Harvard Medical School | June 12, 2026 In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School…karnottJune 12, 2026 Read More