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Cross-section of lung tissue shows 6 structures with bright pink outlines and hollow middles, amid purple, green, yellow, and blue dots like a starfield.

HMS Announces Blavatnik Institute Early Career Investigator Awards

November 6, 2025

10 projects receive basic and translational research funding

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HMS Scientists Win Funding From Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator

September 25, 2025

New technologies take aim at urgent challenges from autoimmune disease to cancer

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Making Real Gains in the War on Alzheimer’s

September 19, 2025

Researchers hope new technologies, approaches usher in effective treatment

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The First Precision Medicine for a Genetic Heart Disease

September 11, 2025

Discoveries in the Seidman Lab gave way to a novel treatment for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

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Addressing Twofold Lung Damage

September 9, 2025

Molecule could hold a key to repairing tissue harmed by infection, inflammation

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New Research Building Renamed as Veritas Science Center

September 3, 2025

Underscores Harvard Medical School’s commitment to research and discovery

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How Subtle Bacterial Shifts Keep Gut Inflammation at Bay

August 25, 2025

Study reveals molecular tweaks in gut bacteria maintain immunity, protect against IBD

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Seeding Solutions for Bipolar Disorder

August 25, 2025

11 new “outside-the-box” projects seek to illuminate causes, innovative treatments

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Unusual Allies: Vagus Nerve Cells Emerge as Defenders Against Flu Damage

August 19, 2025

Study finds sensory cells that detect tissue damage, irritants also rein in harmful immune responses…

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Research Identifies New Ways To Supercharge Cancer Immunotherapy

August 12, 2025

Findings, based on mouse studies, could pave the way for more effective cancer treatments

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Could Lithium Explain — and Treat — Alzheimer’s Disease?

August 6, 2025

Study: Lithium loss ignites Alzheimer’s, but lithium compound can reverse disease in mice

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Medicines That Unleash the Immune System To Fight Cancer

July 7, 2025
The story behind the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors, fulfilling the promise of cancer…
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