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

Microglia — immune cells in the brain and spinal cord — play crucial roles in keeping the brain healthy, including helping shape neural circuits as well as getting rid of infectious bacteria and ...

Federal grants are not gifts; rather, the U.S. government identified these research projects as priorities for the American people and selected researchers at Harvard for this funding through a highly ...

Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs ...

Judy Sng earned her PhD in neuroscience more than 20 years ago and has been teaching neuropharmacology at the National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2009. A leader in educating educators at the ...

Four Harvard Medical School researchers have received awards from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Two have been named Damon Runyon Fellows, and two have received the Damon Runyon-Dale F.

Researchers have created an AI tool called EVE-Vax that can predict and design viral proteins likely to emerge in the future. For SARS-CoV-2, panels of these “designer” proteins triggered similar ...

Christopher Buswinka has always loved music, from listening to records with his father on their Hi-Fi sound system to playing piano at home and trumpet in the school band. Studying bioengineering ...

Aortic aneurysms — dangerous bulges in the body’s main artery, the aorta — are becoming increasingly common as more people live longer. Aneurysms are typically silent and cause no symptoms. Undetected ...

Microscopy images indicate a plethora of abnormal RNAs (yellow) in fibroblast cells from a patient with an Integrator mutation, left, compared to normal cells, right. Images: Apoorva Baluapuri At a ...

Two Harvard Medical School students and one incoming HMS student have received 2025 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. They are among 30 graduate students to receive the merit-based ...

Community awards received by current Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine faculty, postdocs, staff, and students can also be found, categorized by calendar year, on the HMS ...