Part of the NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, the Transformative Research Award supports individuals and teams ...

David Walt, the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Bioinspired Engineering at HMS and professor of pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is operating at a microscopic level, observing cell abnormalities ...

CHASERR is unlike traditional genes, which are used as blueprints for making messenger RNA and proteins that perform various functions in cells. Instead, CHASERR codes for a long noncoding RNA, or ...

Gary Ruvkun, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of ...

Harvard Medical School annually bestows teaching awards on its most outstanding teachers, who, through their excellence in teaching, will impact and influence the professional lives of students long ...

We know that many things influence people’s health, including genetics, behavior, environmental exposure, and socioeconomic factors. One contributor, however, often goes unappreciated: civic ...

Some endowed professorships are intended to honor expertise within a broad field of study (e.g., psychiatry), whereas others have a more specific focus. Incumbents are appointed in recognition of ...

Genes are the control panel for an embryo morphing from a ball of cells into organs, muscles, and limbs, but genetics isn’t ...