Doctoral and postdoctoral students have the opportunity to participate in nutritional science research through a longstanding ...

Harvard Medical School neurobiologist David Ginty has won The Brain Prize 2026 for his career-long research on our sense of ...

Leonard Zon, professor of stem cell and regenerative biology and Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, ...

A single injection of an oncolytic virus — a virus that has been genetically modified to selectively infect and destroy cancer cells — can recruit immune cells to penetrate and persist deep within ...

The team is led by Leanne Li of The Francis Crick Institute in London, England. Her research combines cancer biology and neuroscience to investigate how cancer communicates with peripheral nerves ...

Benjamin Waterhouse introduces the smallpox vaccine to the United States and helps gain acceptance for the new procedure. Theobald Smith identifies the mechanism of insect-borne disease transmission, ...

The team created a new tool that reduces bias and improves cancer diagnosis across populations ...

Growing up in Greece, Iosif Lazaridis shared his compatriots’ appreciation that they lived in “the crossroads of Europe and Asia,” past and present. Many people moved to Greece from the Balkans after ...

Study shows for the first time that lithium plays an essential role in normal brain function and can confer resistance to brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists discovered that lithium is ...

In the late 1700s, a nightmare was defined as a “disease when a man in his sleep supposes he has a great weight laying upon him.” This definition came from the popular reference text, An Universal ...

Many people with autism spectrum disorders also experience unusual gastrointestinal inflammation, but thus far scientists have not established whether and how those conditions might be linked. Now, ...

Harvard Medical School’s core mission is to educate students and seed the fields of science and medicine with inspirational leaders. Established in 1782, the School has produced generations of ...