The 2025 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to three scientists whose discoveries culminated in the development ...

My latest study, which just came out in Science, has uncovered thousands of previously unknown microproteins encoded by the “dark matter” of viral genomes. Many of these small, mysterious molecules ...

This distinctive approach gets students thinking about how the underlying biomedical science of health and disease ties into the social factors of patient care earlier than in a traditional medical ...

Protect Research at Harvard Medical School As we navigate this period of instability and uncertainty, gifts to Harvard Medical School help to bridge critical funding gaps and sustain independent ...

This figure displays the principal steps in seeking approval to establish a new HMS Clinical Academic Department. These steps are sequential and may be paused at any stage of the process when ...

The HMS Department categories shown in the second blue tier of the above figure are recognized as appointing departments in the Harvard Faculty of Medicine; affiliate-based academic departments shown ...

They identified a potent cocktail of six transcription factors, enabling the ultrafast production of microglia-like cells. The cells showed expected responses to molecular stimuli typical of pathogens ...

Aim is to better coordinate Harvard Medical School’s teaching of primary care, enable leadership and… ...

The Office for Culture and Community Engagement (OCCE) at Harvard Medical School promotes inclusive excellence and focuses on two main areas: 1) providing opportunity and access to help individuals ...

Vladimir Fencl and Montserrat de Miquel Fencl De Miquel Fencl, meanwhile, returned from Norway with an offer from the HMS Department of Biological Chemistry to work as a research associate under the ...

In a notable continuation of its journey to unravel Parkinson’s disease (PD), a team led by Wade Harper, PhD, the Bert and Natalie Vallee Professor of Molecular Pathology and chair of the Department ...

A recent study of 183 World Health Organization member countries documented an average health span-lifespan gap of 9.6 years. The United States had the largest gap—12.4 years—according to the study’s ...