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Celebrating the heart and impact of the HMS community.
Spring 2025
Our latest issue of Pulse highlights bold efforts to uncover the root causes of Parkinson’s disease, open doors for aspiring physicians through expanded scholarship support, stop BRCA-related cancers before they begin, and pioneer new strategies to extend the healthy, vibrant years of life.
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Fall 2024
This issue of Pulse features gifts aimed at harnessing AI to improve health care, advancing health equity, exploring the impact of fever on autism symptoms, ensuring a robust community of physician-scientists, and preparing PhD students to excel in academic and biopharmaceutical careers related to therapeutic science.
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Spring 2024
This issue of Pulse includes gifts dedicated to understanding the neurobiology of autism spectrum disorder, treating and ultimately curing diseases and disorders of the brain, stopping the onset of BRCA-related cancers, and helping those suffering from myasthenia gravis, a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease.
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Fall 2023
This issue of Pulse includes gifts aimed at igniting innovative neurobiology research, reinventing the Health Sciences and Technology curriculum, providing low-interest loans to MD students with financial need, and finding new ways to rejuvenate the immune system.
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Spring 2023
This issue of Pulse includes gifts aimed at guarding against future pandemic threats, honoring Paul Farmer’s legacy and carrying on his vision, and upgrading HMS’s infrastructure to promote research collaboration.
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Fall 2022
This issue of Pulse includes gifts aimed at improving mental health care for youths, finding answers for patients with undiagnosed diseases, boosting HMS’s ability to recruit a diverse class, and advancing new treatment opportunities for children with heart conditions.
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Spring 2022
This issue of Pulse includes gifts that are supporting scientists’ translational goals, helping to grow a more diverse HMS community, making a positive impact on students’ daily experiences, innovating how health care is delivered, and strengthening scholarship support.
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Fall 2021
This issue of Pulse includes gifts and grants that are propelling precision medicine research, fueling the development of novel approaches to understanding aging, establishing training tools for clinicians that will improve the care of adult patients with autism, strengthening health care systems in marginalized communities, and increasing fellowship opportunities for promising students.
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Spring 2021
This issue of Pulse includes gifts and grants that are accelerating research into rare cancers, advancing cutting-edge approaches to attacking Parkinson’s disease, boosting HMS’s efforts to recruit a diverse student body, and promoting global health equity.
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Fall 2020
This issue of Pulse includes gifts and grants that are uniting COVID-19 researchers, accelerating Lyme disease research and education, strengthening health care policy, bolstering scholarship support, and promoting primary care.
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Spring 2020
This issue of Pulse includes gifts and grants that are uniting COVID-19 researchers, accelerating Lyme disease research and education, strengthening health care policy, bolstering scholarship support, and promoting primary care.
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Fall 2019
This issue of Pulse celebrates gifts and grants supporting faculty, medical education, therapeutic innovation, ancient DNA research, global health programs, cannabinoid research, and autism awareness, among other areas.
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Spring 2019
The inaugural issue of Pulse celebrates gifts supporting healthy aging and medical education, transforming transgender care and health care policy, Alzheimer's and diabetes research, and faculty support, among other topics.
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Winter 2018
This special edition of The Benefactor celebrates the momentous $200 million gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation catalyzes curiosity-driven research and the translation of next-generation precision therapies.
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Fall 2018
This issue of The Benefactor celebrates the successful conclusion of The World Is Waiting: The Campaign for Harvard Medicine. Other stories in this issue cover gifts supporting the improvement of sensory disorder treatments, increasing student diversity, and further research into Lyme disease.
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Spring 2018
The stories in this issue of The Benefactor cover gifts directed to increase funding for MD-PhD students, establish scholarship funds, support primary care and family medicine, and advance research in fields such as aging, brain science, health care policy, and breast and ovarian cancer.
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Fall 2017
The stories in this issue of The Benefactor cover gifts directed to decoding human brain evolution, ending diarrheal disease deaths in children, and supporting financial aid and Alzheimer's research.
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Spring 2017
The stories in this issue of The Benefactor cover gifts directed to ending tuberculosis, supporting systems biology fellowships and student scholarships, breast and ovarian cancer research, and advancing primary care.