Anne Goldfeld, HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has been named to receive the 2025 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. The NFID Awards recognize outstanding individuals who have made significant and lasting contributions to public health through leadership, scientific achievement, philanthropy, and policy work.
Goldfeld will be honored for her contributions as a physician-scientist and humanitarian focused on tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Her work has provided a new understanding of the immune response to TB/HIV coinfection. Goldfeld also cofounded transformative treatment and research programs in Cambodia and Ethiopia for TB, drug-resistant TB, and HIV, bringing care to some of the world’s most underserved populations.
Goldfeld will receive the award at the 2025 NFID Awards Gala in October in Washington, D.C.
Joseph Taylor, HMS assistant professor of psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s, has received the 2025 Klerman and Freedman Prize from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. The annual prizes recognize outstanding scientists who have been supported by the foundation’s Young Investigator Grants Program.
Taylor’s research focuses on brain stimulation targets for psychiatric illness. He derives targets by examining the connectivity patterns of brain lesion locations or brain stimulation coordinates that modify neuropsychiatric symptoms. He then tests these targets in clinical trials using both invasive and noninvasive brain circuit interventions.
“This year’s Klerman and Freedman Prize recipients exemplify the talent and commitment driving the future of mental health research,” said Jeffrey Borenstein, president and CEO of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. “Their groundbreaking work expands our understanding of the brain and holds promise for developing more effective and personalized treatments.”
Nathaniel Harnett, HMS assistant professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital, who investigates post-traumatic stress, received an honorable mention.
Adapted from Brain & Behavior Research Foundation materials.
Two Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences doctoral students in HMS programs and their faculty thesis advisors have been named 2025 Gilliam fellows by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Gilliam fellows receive up to three years of PhD dissertation support in addition to opportunities to connect with peers, program alumni, and HHMI scientists at every career stage.
The new Gilliam fellows from HMS and their faculty advisors are:
- Maryam Dadabhoy, Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD student in neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, and her advisor, Meenakshi Rao, HMS associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital.
- Jessica Dixon, Harvard Griffin GSAS PhD student in neurobiology at HMS, and her advisor, Lisa Goodrich, professor of neurobiology at HMS.
