Pier Paolo Pandolfi, the George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine at HMS, has been named director of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute.
What is it about winning that feels so deliciously good? Why is New England in such a state of euphoria now? Rick Leskowitz, HMS clinical instructor in psychiatry at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, authored this article about happiness and why the Red Sox winning the World Series feels so good.
Researchers use molecular keys, chisels, and crowbars to open the last great biochemical barricade in the body—the blood-brain barrier. Research by Benjamin Bleier, HMS assistant professor of otology and laryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, is cited.
The author wrote about his experience in a brain-stimulation session at Harvard’s Laboratory of Neuromodulation with J. León Morales-Quezada, HMS research fellow in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. Felipe Fregni, HMS associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, is also quoted.
The Scientist opened up its annual Salary Survey to its international readers for the first time, revealing stark differences between average pay in the U.S., Europe, and the rest of the world in the life sciences. Eric Campbell, HMS professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
A 20 percent tax on sugary drinks in the U.K. would cut the nation’s obesity rate by 1.3 percent, with the greatest benefit for people under 30, a study found. Jason Block, HMS assistant professor of population medicine, wrote an editorial accompanying the study.
Bruce Chabner, HMS professor of medicine and Alice Shaw, HMS associate professor of medicine, both of Massachusetts General Hospital, are highlighted for their efforts to give a patient access to an experimental cancer drug.
Everyone knows what aging looks like. Wrinkles, high blood pressure, hair loss—those unmistakable signs of deterioration that accumulate as the years pass us by. But a genetics researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital would like to take a step back: do we really know what aging is? Research by Vadim Gladyshev, HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is cited.
Antibodies derived from the blood of HIV-infected people suppressed the virus in the blood of monkeys in two studies that suggest the experimental approach may improve AIDS therapy or point the way toward a cure. Dan Barouch, HMS professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, led one of the studies.
