Christopher McDougle, the HMS Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, was awarded the Ruane Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric ...

“We’ve built a blueprint of the entire gut, and that’s a remarkable achievement,” said study senior author Ramnik Xavier, the HMS Kurt J. Isselbacher Professor of Medicine in the Field of ...

But a new study, published Nov. 19 in Current Biology, offers compelling evidence that even tiny single-cell creatures such as ciliates and amoebae, as well as the cells in our own bodies, could ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have taken another decisive step in their efforts to develop a gene therapy for people with Usher syndrome type 1F, a rare condition that causes deafness and ...

The findings suggest the dominant “two-hit” hypothesis of cancer development may not tell the full story behind how cancer arises. Study identifies cellular changes that prime cancer-related genes for ...

Beyond his accomplishments as a radiologist, professor, and public health leader, Stanley Bohrer, MD ’58, MPH ’75, was a lifelong sculptor who could carve just about anything out of wood. He spent 14 ...

The mechanisms by which the body interprets environmental factors, reports them to the brain, and is in turn directed by the brain to respond to them are little understood. The lab of HMS cell biology ...

IMAGE: Rebecca E. Rollins/ Partners In Health In an inspiring show of solidarity and foresight, the Lynch Foundation and Mary Lynch Witkowski, AB ’96, MBA ’01, MD ’16, have each committed $1.5 million ...