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The JCSW has been awarding Leaders in Advancing Women’s Careers since 1998, when the first Dean’s Award for Leadership in the Advancement of Women Faculty was established. Former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Joseph B. Martin, M.D., Ph.D., initiated...

Community and mentorship shone as prominent themes at the Harvard Medical School-Affiliated PhD Programs Hooding Ceremony on May 28 as scholars received their doctoral hoods after many years studying, collaborating, and stretching themselves as they...

It was DNA replication that first captured Isaac Witte’s scientific imagination as a high school student in Overland Park, Kansas. “It’s this orchestration of so many different proteins and molecules that come together to do this core element of life,” he...

Fei Chen and Ryan Flynn were honored for promising investigations into cellular mechanisms of the disease. Two Harvard stem cell biologists have been recognized for promising research into underlying disease mechanisms and potential therapies. Fei Chen...

Dementia affects over 57 million people worldwide, a number expected to nearly double in the next 20 years. This permanent loss of cognitive abilities affects daily function and can be caused by multiple brain pathologies, including well known ones like...

Six BBS researchers (Steve Blacklow, Jon Clardy, Ben Ebert, Steve Liberles, Johannes Walter, and Yi Zhang) are among the 145 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in...

Three Harvard Medical School faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Class of 2026 for distinguished accomplishments in biological sciences and public policy. Established in 1780, the Academy recognizes accomplished...

A new drug candidate designed to slow the progression of prion disease is entering a phase 1 clinical trial, which will evaluate the potential medicine for safety and tolerability. Prion diseases are a class of neurodegenerative disorders that are caused...

Advances in treatment have transformed pediatric leukemia from a largely fatal diagnosis into one of the most curable childhood cancers—survival rates in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia now exceed 90 percent. But when cancer spreads to the brain, a...

Stuart H. Orkin and Swee Lay Thein share the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Their research transformed the devastating blood disorders sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia from incurable to treatable conditions through gene editing therapy. In...