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Adam Lowet, a recent PhD graduate from Harvard’s Program in Neuroscience, has been awarded the…
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The Whitehead Institute Board of Directors has elected Maren Winnick, a leader in biopharma investment…
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Notch signaling relies on ligand-induced proteolysis of the transmembrane receptor Notch to liberate a nuclear…
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Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University received a contract…
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Blood stem cells, which give rise to all of our blood cell types, undergo a…
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Gregory Ciottone, HMS associate professor of emergency medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess, received the American…
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The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees has voted to approve the establishment of four…
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There are approximately 1.5 million people living with HIV in the U.S. using injection drugs,…
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The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a team of researchers led by Craig J. Ceol,…
eabramovichJuly 16, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) provost Martin A. Schmidt has announced that two Whitehead Institute…
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A UMass Medical School research team has been awarded a National Cancer Institute grant to…
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Luisa Maria Nieto Ramirez, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Associate Professor of Biology…
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At the heart of Whitehead Institute are its Members, a group of world-class investigators who…
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UMass Medical School postdoctoral associate Yasaman Gholamalipour, PhD, was awarded the Huntington’s Disease Society of…
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Jesse Lehman, a PhD candidate in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate…
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