Awards Gloria Choi Earns Samsung Ho-Am Prize for MedicineThe Picower Institute | April 4, 2025The Ho-Am Foundation has selected Gloria Choi, Associate Professor in The Picower Institute for Learning…karnottApril 4, 2025 Read More
Awards BU’s Kenneth Lutchen Named AAAS FellowThe Brink | April 4, 2025A scholar at the forefront of respiratory mechanics and an innovative leader in higher education,…karnottApril 4, 2025 Read More
Local News Building Bridges Between Denmark-Based and Broad ResearchersThe Broad Institute | April 3, 2025When Maddie Murphy, a computational associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, first…karnottApril 3, 2025 Read More
Awards MIT Affiliates Named 2024 AAAS FellowsMIT Chemistry | April 3, 2025Six current MIT affiliates and 27 additional MIT alumni have been elected as fellows of…karnottApril 3, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions Reprogram Dendritic Cells to Promote Type 1 Anti-Tumor ImmunityLensch, V., et al. | September 25, 2024Cancer vaccine development is inhibited by a lack of strategies for directing dendritic cell (DC)…karnottSeptember 25, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Commensal Consortia Decolonize Enterobacteriaceae via Ecological ControlFuruichi, M., et al. | September 24, 2024Persistent colonization and outgrowth of potentially pathogenic organisms in the intestine can result from long-term…karnottSeptember 24, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Intercellular Nanotube-Mediated Mitochondrial Transfer Enhances T Cell Metabolic Fitness and Antitumor EfficacyBaldwin, J., et al. | September 20, 2024Mitochondrial loss and dysfunction drive T cell exhaustion, representing major barriers to successful T cell-based immunotherapies. Here,…karnottSeptember 20, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Reverse-Engineering Placebo Analgesia | September 17, 2024Placebo analgesia is a widely observed clinical phenomenon. Establishing a robust mouse model of placebo…karnottSeptember 17, 2024 Read More
Local News Research by UMass Chan Scientists Upends Scientific Understanding of How Anticancer Drugs Kill CancerUMass Chan Medical School | February 27, 2025Research by UMass Chan Medical School scientists Sharon Cantor, PhD, and Jenna M. Whalen, PhD,…karnottFebruary 27, 2025 Read More
Local News New Imaging Technique Illuminates Bacterial Gene ActivityHarvard Medical School | February 26, 2025Researchers have created a novel imaging-technology combination that can capture gene activity in individual bacteria…karnottFebruary 26, 2025 Read More
Local News How Nature Organizes Itself, From Brain Cells to EcosystemsMcGovern Institute | February 25, 2025Look around, and you’ll see it everywhere: the way trees form branches, the way cities…karnottFebruary 25, 2025 Read More
Local News Taking the Pulse of Sex Differences in the HeartWhitehead Institute | February 25, 2025Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women, but it often presents…karnottFebruary 25, 2025 Read More
Awards Physics Professor Receives $608K in NCI Funding to Develop Medical Device for Screening and Treating Oral Cancers | February 27, 2024In his efforts to advance the development of a low-cost, compact medical device for screening…karnottFebruary 27, 2024 Read More
Awards Dr. Gordon J. Freeman Recognized with 2024 Aacr-Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer ImmunologyDana-Farber Cancer Institute | February 23, 2024Gordon J. Freeman, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, will receive the 2024 AACR-Cancer Research Institute…karnottFebruary 23, 2024 Read More
Awards UMass Chan Researchers Earn PolyBio Foundation Award for Long COVID, Neurodegenerative Disease StudyUMass Chan Medical School | February 21, 2024Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School are investigating the potential connection to and impact of…karnottFebruary 21, 2024 Read More
Awards Claflin Awards Help Moms Thrive in Science and Medicine at Mass GeneralBench Press | February 16, 2024Although women enter into the fields of science and medicine in approximately the same numbers…karnottFebruary 16, 2024 Read More
Awards Dr. Cathy Wu Wins Prestigious Sjöberg Prize for Cancer Vaccine ResearchDana-Farber Cancer Institute | February 14, 2024Catherine J. Wu, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has been awarded the Sjöberg Prize today…karnottFebruary 14, 2024 Read More
Awards Postdoc Rebecca Beiter’s Neurodegenerative Research Funded by Kirschstein Award | February 12, 2024Rebecca Beiter, PhD, a postdoc in the lab of Dorothy P. Schafer, PhD, associate professor…karnottFebruary 12, 2024 Read More
Awards MIT-Led Team Receives Funding to Pursue New Treatments for Metabolic DiseaseMIT News | February 8, 2024A team of MIT researchers will lead a $65.67 million effort, awarded by the U.S.…karnottFebruary 8, 2024 Read More
Awards Nancy Hopkins Awarded the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare MedalMIT News | February 7, 2024The National Academy of Sciences has awarded MIT biologist Nancy Hopkins, the Amgen Professor of…karnottFebruary 7, 2024 Read More
Awards Kim Vanuytsel, PhD, Receives 2024 Scholar Award from the American Society of HematologyBoston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine | February 6, 2024Kim Vanuytsel, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, is one of 36 recipients of the American…karnottFebruary 6, 2024 Read More
Awards MIT Faculty Founder Initiative Announces Finalists for Second CompetitionMIT News | January 31, 2024The MIT Faculty Founder Initiative has announced 12 finalists for the 2023-24 MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize…karnottJanuary 31, 2024 Read More
Awards David Liu Receives Breakthrough Prize in Life SciencesBroad Institute | April 15, 2025Gene editing pioneer David Liu, a core member at the Broad Institute where he is…karnottApril 15, 2025 Read More
Publications of the Week Lysine Vitcylation Is a Vitamin C-Derived Protein Modification That Enhances STAT1-Mediated Immune ResponseHe, X., et al. | April 15, 2025Vitamin C (vitC) is essential for health and shows promise in treating diseases like cancer,…karnottApril 15, 2025 Read More
Local News Scientists Have Developed a Way To Scale Up Spatial Genomics and Lower CostsBroad Institute | April 14, 2025Spatial transcriptomics technologies opened the door for new kinds of biological measurements, allowing scientists to…karnottApril 14, 2025 Read More