Awards Pasi Jänne Receives the American Cancer Society 2024 Medal of Honor AwardDana-Farber Cancer Institute | January 11, 2024The American Cancer Society awarded the 2024 Medal of Honor to Pasi Jänne, MD, PhD,…karnottJanuary 11, 2024 Read More
Local News Novel Compound Protects Against Infection by Virus That Causes COVID-19, Preliminary Studies ShowDana-Farber Cancer Institute | January 10, 2024Compounds that obstruct the "landing gear" of a range of harmful viruses can successfully protect…karnottJanuary 10, 2024 Read More
Awards Daniel Anderson and Ana Jaklenec Elected to the National Academy of InventorsKoch Institute | January 10, 2024The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) announced the election of more than 160 people to…karnottJanuary 10, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Novel Bacteroides vulgatus Strain Protects Against Gluten-Induced Break of Human Celiac Gut Epithelial Homeostasis: A Pre-Clinical Proof-of-Concept StudyTran, T., et al. | January 10, 2024We have identified a decreased abundance of microbial species known to have a potential anti-inflammatory,…karnottJanuary 10, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week Cilia Function as Calcium-Mediated Mechanosensors That Instruct Left-Right AsymmetryDjenoune, L., & Mahamdeh, M., et al. | January 24, 2023Dr. Shiaulou Yuan's lab consists of a multidisciplinary group of biologists, biophysicists, and microscopists who…pthomsonJanuary 24, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week CanB Is a Metabolic Mediator of Antibiotic Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeaeRubin, D. H. F., et al. | January 23, 2023Read the Publication This week we profile a recent publication in Nature Microbiology from the…pthomsonJanuary 23, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week Assessing and Advancing the Safety of CRISPR-Cas Tools: From DNA to RNA EditingTao, J., et al. | January 19, 2023CRISPR-Cas gene editing has revolutionized experimental molecular biology over the past decade and holds great…pthomsonJanuary 19, 2023 Read More
Publications of the Week The Landscape of Tumor Cell States and Spatial Organization in H3-K27M Mutant Diffuse Midline Glioma Across Age and LocationLiu, I., Jiang, L., & Samuelsson, E. R., et al. | January 16, 2023Dr. Mariella Filbin's lab is interested in how pediatric brain tumors recapitulate certain aspects of…pthomsonJanuary 16, 2023 Read More
Local News A Research Team Searches for Every Gene That Helps Tumors Evade ImmunotherapyBroad Institute | October 12, 2023In 2011, Robert Manguso was working in a cell biology lab when his mother was…sciencecityOctober 12, 2023 Read More
Local News Research Spotlight: Addressing Crucial Concepts of Mucosal Immunology to Learn More About the Causes of Male InfertilityMassachusetts General Hospital | October 12, 2023Maria Agustina Battistone, PhD, an Investigator in the Department of Nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital…sciencecityOctober 12, 2023 Read More
Local News Shorter Course of Radiation Therapy Is Safe for Patients with Early-Stage Breast Cancer Who Have Undergone Mastectomy and ReconstructionDana-Farber Cancer Institute | October 10, 2023Researchers at Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center have found that a shorter course of radiation therapy…sciencecityOctober 10, 2023 Read More
Local News Science for Living: Understanding Preeclampsia, Its Toll on Black Women and a Promising Therapeutic on the WayUMass Chan Medical School | October 9, 2023When three-time Olympic track and field medalist Tori Bowie, a Black woman, was found dead…sciencecityOctober 9, 2023 Read More
Awards Investing in Exceptional Promise: Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards Promote Translational Opportunities, Therapeutics DevelopmentHarvard Medical School | November 3, 2020Five research projects with exceptional promise to deliver new life-changing and health-altering therapies have received…eabramovichNovember 3, 2020 Read More
Awards Introducing the 2020-2021 Convergence ScholarsKoch Institute | October 30, 2020The Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine and the MIT Center for Precision Cancer Medicine are…eabramovichOctober 30, 2020 Read More
Awards Six MIT Alumni Named to 2020 Fortune 40 Under 40 ListSlice of MIT | October 26, 2020To mark a year of “monumental change,” the editors of Fortune say they decided to upend the…eabramovichOctober 26, 2020 Read More
Awards Guangping Gao Makes List of Nature Biotechnology Top 20 Translational ResearchersUMass Med News | October 21, 2020An influential scientific journal’s list of top translational biotech researchers for 2019 includes Guangping Gao, PhD,…eabramovichOctober 21, 2020 Read More
Awards National Academy of Medicine Elects 9 HMS Faculty MembersHarvard Medical School | October 20, 2020Nine HMS faculty members are among 100 new members elected by the National Academy of Medicine. Considered one…eabramovichOctober 20, 2020 Read More
Awards Seven Harvard Medical School Scientists Receive NIH AwardsHarvard Medical School | October 13, 2020Seven scientists from the Blavatnik Institute at HMS and HMS-affiliated hospitals have received National Institutes…eabramovichOctober 13, 2020 Read More
Awards Three from MIT Receive National Health Institute AwardsMIT News | October 9, 2020Three MIT faculty members have been chosen to receive the New Innovators Award from the…eabramovichOctober 9, 2020 Read More
Awards NIH Awards $35.5 Million to Use Tiny, Bioengineered Organ Models to Improve Clinical Trials’ Development and DesignNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences | October 5, 2020Approximately 85% of late-stage clinical trials of candidate drugs fail because of drug safety problems…eabramovichOctober 5, 2020 Read More
Awards Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholar Awards Celebrate Women in ScienceMassachusetts General Hospital | September 30, 2020During the Celebration of Science, 36 extraordinary women were honored as the Anne Klibanski Visiting…eabramovichSeptember 30, 2020 Read More
Awards Ibrahim Cissé, Ruth Lehmann, and Silvi Rouskin Awarded 2021 Vilcek PrizeMIT News | September 29, 2020Associate professor of physics and biology Ibrahim Cissé, professor of biology and Whitehead Institute Director…eabramovichSeptember 29, 2020 Read More
Local News UMass Chan Licenses Gene Therapy Technologies for Retinal Diseases to Iveric BioUMass Chan Medical School | February 5, 2024UMass Chan Medical School licensed the exclusive global rights to develop and commercialize novel adeno-associated…karnottFebruary 5, 2024 Read More
Publications of the Week CAG Repeat Expansions Create Splicing Acceptor Sites and Produce Aberrant Repeat-Containing RNAsAnderson, R., et al. | February 5, 2024Expansions of CAG trinucleotide repeats cause several rare neurodegenerative diseases. The disease-causing repeats are translated…karnottFebruary 5, 2024 Read More
Local News Development of Lupus Biorepository Underway at Lupus Center at UMass ChanUMass Chan Medical School | February 2, 2024Roberto Caricchio, MD, the Myles J. McDonough Chair in Rheumatology, professor of medicine and chief of…karnottFebruary 2, 2024 Read More