GNS Healthcare aims to help MDs know which treatment will work the best for each patient. HMS is mentioned as using a GNS computing platform to analyze how cells replicate or transform into different types.
As much a product of an agricultural childhood as he was of his medical training, Dr. Walter S. Kerr Jr. brought a fix-it inquisitiveness to his work as a urologist, crafting innovative approaches to surgery that he passed on to generations of students. Kerr, HMS clinical professor of surgery, emeritus, at Massachusetts General Hospital, died on March 31 at the age of 96.
A patient and his extended family have joined an extraordinary federal research project that is using genetic sequencing to find factors that increase the risk of heart disease beyond the usual suspects — high cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking and diabetes. Robert C. Green, HMS associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, whose research led to a new understanding of infant and child development, turned 95 on Friday. Having tended to the needs of countless families for a half-century, the Cambridge resident and Harvard Medical School professor emeritus has turned his attention to his own upbringing.
Today, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced its new class of investigators—scientists whose salaries, benefits, and research budgets are fully covered for five years. Vamsi Mootha, HMS professor of systems biology at Massachusetts General Hospital; David Reich, HMS professor of genetics; Johannes Walter, HMS professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology; and Rachel Wilson, HMS professor of neurobiology, were selected as 2013 HHMI investigators.
Low cognition hinders U.S. seniors’ Medicare choices and it calls into question potential effectiveness of a Medicare voucher system, researchers say. J. Michael McWilliams, HMS assistant professor of health care policy, is the senior author of the study.
A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists have discovered a protein that circulates in blood that can turn old hearts young, causing a mouse’s heart that has thickened and enlarged with age to revert back to a more youthful state. Richard T. Lee, HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Amy Wagers, professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University and the Joslin Diabetes Center, were leaders of the study.
Dennis Wall, HMS associate professor of pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and director of the Computational Biology Initiative at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School has received the Slifka-Ritvo Innovation in Autism Research Award at this year’s International Meeting for Autism Research.
Heidi Harbison Kimberly, HMS instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mark Gebhardt, the Frederic W. and Jane M. Ilfeld Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at HMS and chief of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, are HMS physicians who played a role in the Boston Marathon day events. They are also musicians who play in the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, an elite ensemble that draws most of its performers from Boston’s medical community.
Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, wrote a blog post about the new study by scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute who have discovered a hormone that might slow or stop the progression of diabetes. Douglas Melton, the Xander University Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and his postdoctoral fellow, Peng Yi, led the research.
Companies and managers are equipped to handle job fatigue among employees, but what happens when burnout—described as persistent fatigue, detachment or resentment triggered by excessive work and stress—strikes the top boss? Srini Pillay, HMS assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital, is conducting the study of burnout among senior leaders.
