Student Profile

Meet Brooke & Jason. After her stepfather sustained a spinal cord injury, Brooke became the first woman to skateboard across America, raising more than $55,000 for Wings for Life and for research. Jason became a spinal cord injury (SCI) researcher at...

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...

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...

Ananthan Sadagopan grew up in Westborough, Massachusetts as the child of immigrants from Chennai, India. Growing up, his parents immersed him in culture, teaching him Tamil, the Vedas, mridangam, and emphasizing the importance of education. Read full...

Tiara Lacey already had an impressive academic resume when she participated in Harvard’s Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP) in 2017: undergraduate biology major at Spelman College with work in the labs of Morehouse College as well...

BBS MD/PhD student Wendy Sun advances understanding of the brain networks that regulate behavior and mood. A PhD student in medical sciences at the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Sun advances understanding of how the...

BBS student, Eileen Ablondi, is featured in a Harvard Medicine News article. Cancer cells are often a mess of mutations. About 20 to 25 percent of cancers involve mutations in a complex of molecules called SWI/SNF. Yet drugs designed to block SWI/SNF...

President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971. At the time, the disease was the second leading cause of death in the US. More than 50 years later, cancer is still the country’s second most lethal disease, claiming over 600,000 lives every year...

Sarah Erlandson, a recent BBS graduate, is featured in this article in today's Harvard Medicine News. As the proverb goes, it takes a village to raise a child. It can also take a village to make progress in science and medicine. In this case, labs from...

Two students in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences program of the Division of Medical Sciences have received the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, as announced yesterday. They are among 30 New Americans who were selected from a pool of...