Medical Students Mark Residency Placements at Match Day 2025 March 21, 2025 Soon-to-be doctors thrilled to learn where they will begin clinical training
Probing the Mysteries of the Aging Brain March 20, 2025 Research led by new faculty member Michael Segel focuses on mammalian lifespans
Internal Awards & Recognitions: Winter 2025 March 17, 2025 Awards bestowed on community members by Harvard, HMS, and HSDM
Open-Source AI Matches Top Proprietary LLM in Solving Tough Medical Cases March 14, 2025 Greater competition between AI diagnostic tools should benefit patients and clinicians
Stem Cell Therapy Repairs Cornea Damage Thought Irreversible March 10, 2025 Regenerative medicine trial shows promise using patients’ own healthy corneas
Are We on the Cusp of a Major Bird Flu Outbreak? March 7, 2025 Scientists weigh in on the spread of H5N1 and highlight clues that portend what might come next
Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards Fuel Translational Research March 3, 2025 Awards aim to accelerate translation of discoveries made at Harvard Medical School into new…
Awards & Recognitions: February 2025 February 28, 2025 Honors received by HMS faculty, postdocs, staff, and students
Alvin Poussaint, Advocate for Black Mental Health and Social Justice, Dies February 26, 2025 Psychiatrist, civil rights activist worked for more than 50 years at Harvard Medical School
Scientists Identify New Driver of Inflammation Implicated in Autoimmune Diseases February 20, 2025 The protein can turn the body’s defenses against its own tissues to fuel inflammation and damage
Creating the World’s First CRISPR Medicine, for Sickle Cell Disease February 20, 2025 How a genetic insight paired with gene editing technology led to a life-changing new therapy
How the Brain Balances Risk and Reward in Making Decisions February 19, 2025 Research in mice identifies brain circuitry that supports certain reward-based decisions