Awards Dr. Stefan Isaac Receives Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine | May 22, 2026 Stefan Isaac, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Boston University Chobanian &…karnottMay 22, 2026 Read More
Awards Dr. Eviatar Yemini Receives Research Innovation Award for Second Straight Year UMass Chan Medical School | May 22, 2026 For the second consecutive year, Eviatar Yemini, PhD, assistant professor of neurobiology at UMass Chan…karnottMay 22, 2026 Read More
Local News Measles, Cholera, and Mpox: BU-Based Outbreak Tracker Monitors World’s Most Dangerous Infectious Diseases The Brink | May 22, 2026 Last year alone, more than 500,000 people globally were sickened by cholera—and 6,500 died. Chikungunya,…karnottMay 22, 2026 Read More
Awards Multidisciplinary Wyss Team Receives 2026 Lush Prize Science Award The Wyss Institute | May 21, 2026 The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University is proud to announce that…karnottMay 21, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week An Expanded Registry of Candidate Cis-Regulatory Elements Moore, J., et al. | January 21, 2026 Mammalian genomes contain millions of regulatory elements that control the complex patterns of gene expression1.…karnottJanuary 21, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Intelectin-2 Is a Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Lectin Dugan, A., et al. | January 19, 2026 Mammals regulate the localization, composition, and activity of their native microbiota at colonization sites. Lectins…karnottJanuary 19, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Bioresorbable RFID Capsule for Assessing Medication Adherence Say, M., et al. | January 14, 2026 Medication non-adherence remains a critical healthcare challenge, contributing to approximately 125,000 preventable deaths each year…karnottJanuary 14, 2026 Read More
Publications of the Week Inherited Resilience to Clonal Hematopoiesis by Modifying Stem Cell RNA Regulation Agarwal, G., et al. | January 12, 2026 As people age, they often develop clonal hematopoiesis, or accumulation of blood cells with specific…karnottJanuary 12, 2026 Read More
Local News Vitamin D May Help Prevent Diabetes, Depending on Your Genes Tufts Now | April 30, 2026 More than two in five U.S. adults have prediabetes, a condition marked by higher-than-normal blood…karnottApril 30, 2026 Read More
Local News From Lemur Gut Health to COVID-19, Amanda Perofsky Studies Infectious Diseases Northeastern Global News | April 30, 2026 What do Madagascar’s lemurs and the COVID-19 pandemic have in common? The answer is Amanda…karnottApril 30, 2026 Read More
Local News Gaiha Lab Identifies T Cells With Robust Expansion Capability That Help a Rare Group of People Naturally Control HIV After Treatment Interruption Ragon Institute | April 29, 2026 A small number of people living with HIV are able to durably suppress the virus…karnottApril 29, 2026 Read More
Local News New Findings Uncover a 3D DNA Switch in Brown Fat That Could Fight Obesity and Diabetes Joslin Diabetes Center | April 28, 2026 Most fat stores energy; the body’s brown fat does the opposite. Unlike the white fat…karnottApril 28, 2026 Read More
Interesting Articles When Science Can Harm Harvard Medical School | March 4, 2020 The students gather high above the Harvard Medical School campus in a tenth-floor New Research…sciencecityMarch 4, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles The FDA Is Approving Drugs Faster, But That May Not Be A Good Thing BioSpace | January 31, 2020 In a second research report published this year so far, investigators found that the U.S. Food…sciencecityJanuary 31, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles Trump Restrictions on Fetal Tissue Research Unsettle Key Studies and Scientists The Washington Post | January 20, 2020 A recent Trump administration decision to limit funding of research that uses fetal tissue is…sciencecityJanuary 20, 2020 Read More
Interesting Articles Trump Science Advisor Meets with Top Boston Academic Research Officials The Brink | January 17, 2020 Kelvin K. Droegemeier, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,…sciencecityJanuary 17, 2020 Read More
Awards Whitehead Institute Graduate Student Jimmy Ly Receives the 2025 International Birnstiel Award Whitehead Institute | September 15, 2025 The Max Birnstiel Foundation and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) have named Whitehead…karnottSeptember 15, 2025 Read More
Awards Moura Silva Lab Student Named to 2025 HHMI Gilliam Fellows Program Ragon Institute | September 10, 2025 The Ragon Institute congratulates Anika Hutton of the Moura-Silva Lab on her selection to the…karnottSeptember 10, 2025 Read More
Awards Sabrina Samad Shoily Receives AAUW Fellowship Boston University Biology | September 8, 2025 Biology PhD student Sabrina Samad Shoily of the Garcia-Marcos Lab recently received an International Fellowship…karnottSeptember 8, 2025 Read More
Awards Rudolf Jaenisch Receives the 2025 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize Whitehead Institute | September 5, 2025 Whitehead Institute Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch has been honored with the 2025 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell…karnottSeptember 5, 2025 Read More
Awards Kazuki Nagashima Awarded $100K Gift from Noster to Advance Gut–Immune System Research Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | September 4, 2025 MCB is pleased to announce that MCB Assistant Professor Kazuki Nagashima has received a $100,000…karnottSeptember 4, 2025 Read More
Awards Brink Bites: Using AI to Spot Alzheimer’s; NIH Backs BU COPD Research The Brink | September 3, 2025 The Brink’s latest collection of news nuggets, short stories, and other thought-provoking snippets from the…karnottSeptember 3, 2025 Read More
Awards ACS Announces 2026 National Award Winners American Chemical Society | August 26, 2025 The following are the recipients of national awards administered by the American Chemical Society for…karnottAugust 26, 2025 Read More
Awards Gates Foundation Awards $3 Million in Grants to UMass Chan to Study Gut Health in Pregnant Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries UMass Chan Medical School | August 25, 2025 The Gates Foundation is providing funding to two labs in the Program in Microbiome Dynamics…karnottAugust 25, 2025 Read More
Awards The Wyss Institute’s 2025-2026 Validation Projects Wyss Institute | August 22, 2025 Throughout recent years, the Wyss’ Validation Project mechanism has proven to be a highly valuable…karnottAugust 22, 2025 Read More
Awards Wong Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award Ragon Institute | August 20, 2025 The Ragon Institute congratulates faculty member Harikesh Wong, PhD, Core Member at the Ragon and…karnottAugust 20, 2025 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