BBS Faculty

Walter Fontana

walter@hms.harvard.edu

Professor of Systems Biology

The Fontana lab has two main goals. First, understand the dynamical processes that constitute and maintain biological organization in terms of interactions among molecular components. Second, identify those properties of a biological system that are...

Ruth A. Franklin

ruthfranklin@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Cells of the immune system defend us against a variety of insults, including infection by pathogens. However, it is now clear that immune cells also have important functions during development, tissue repair, and homeostasis. We use mouse models of...

Jenna L. Galloway

jgalloway1@partners.org

Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery

Research in our laboratory is committed to expanding our molecular understanding of the formation and regeneration of tendons and ligaments. Injuries to tendons and ligaments result in a slow and imperfect regenerative response. In most cases, the...

Guillermo Garcia-Cardeña

ggarcia-cardena@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Pathology

Our laboratory is using cellular, molecular, bioengineering, and computational biology tools to understand how mechanical forces generated by the flow of blood act on blood vessels to activate signaling pathways critical for cellular specification during...

Rani George

rani_george@dfci.harvard.edu

Professor of Pediatrics

Our laboratory is focused on studying neuroblastoma, an embryonically derived pediatric tumor of the peripheral sympathetic nervous system. We are interested in the following general areas: 1) identifying molecular targets that can be translated into...

Benjamin Gewurz

bgewurz@bwh.harvard.edu

George and Sandra K. Schussel Associate Professor

We study how Epstein-Barr virus causes nearly 1% of all human cancers and also serves as the major viral trigger for autoimmune diseases, in particular multiple sclerosis. A fascinating and incompletely understood aspect of EBV pathogenesis is that it...

William Gibson

william_gibson@dfci.harvard.edu

The Gibson Lab uses tools from chemical biology to develop novel therapeutic platforms with the potential to profoundly impact cancer treatment. We are especially focused on addressing areas traditionally considered "undruggable," such as tumor suppressor...

Vadim Gladyshev

vgladyshev@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Professor of Medicine

Research in our lab revolves primarily around aging, lifespan control and rejuvenation. We also have had longstanding interests in selenium and redox biology. Understanding mechanisms of lifespan control through longevity signatures Mice live 3 years...

Marcia Goldberg

marcia.goldberg@mgh.harvard.edu

Professor of Medicine (Microbiology)

Our lab focuses on the molecular nature of innate immune interactions between microbial pathogens and the host. Pathogenic bacteria have evolved complex mechanisms to subvert host cell immune responses and host cell signaling pathways. Our work focuses on...

Jonathan Gootenberg

jgootenb@bidmc.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Medicine

The Abudayyeh-Gootenberg lab is focused on the understanding and engineering of programmability in biology. These programmable systems, inspired by natural diversity, provide precise control over genomes, transcriptomes, and cellular identity, and are...

Francesca Gori

francesca_gori@hsdm.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity

My longstanding interest is to study the molecular, cellular and genetic basis underlying cell fate and differentiation. My research focuses on the exploration of the skeleton, a “dynamic” tissue where cell interactions and crosstalk are numerous, complex...

Marissa Gredler

mgredler@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

The Gredler lab investigates how dynamic cellular behaviors generate complex tissue structures during vertebrate development. We focus on the developing mouse embryo as a model to understand how cells coordinate their behaviors in space and time to drive...