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, ...

Phase 1 clinical trials evaluate the safety and dosage of proposed new treatments. Further research is needed to test the oncolytic virus therapy’s effectiveness and side effects. Work also continues ...

Mark Namchuk, PhD, joined Harvard Medical School in January 2020 as the executive director of therapeutics translation. In this role, Namchuk works with HMS scientists to identify and harness basic ...

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, ...

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 ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters was with a 24-year-old patient whose sickle cell disease left them with ...

As COVID-19 spread insidiously around the globe this spring, people sought solace in music. As COVID-19 spread insidiously around the globe this spring, people sought solace in music. They sang from ...

Welcome to the Office of the Registrar. Welcome to the Office of the Registrar. We serve HMS students, faculty, and alumni by maintaining student records, processing course registration, providing ...

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, ...

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of medicine, biomedical research, medical education and policy related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the disease COVID-19. Civil ...