Persistence is also central to the questions he studies. His work examines how the brain generates responses that unfold over ...

Constance Cepko, the Bullard Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, received a 2026 ...

A new way that Harvard Medical School is strengthening students’ science communication skills is by holding a Three Minute ...

The results, published May 5 in Nature Genetics, offer a new way to understand the molecular roots of cancer — an especially ...

Discoveries made at Harvard Medical School have improved the health and lives of countless people. Today, we continue our progress toward the treatments of tomorrow. Our researchers – based at the ...

Commitment to leadership in nutrition education began in 1942 and continues to evolve with requirements and electives for students, trainees, professionals, and the public.

Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) Commuter Services ...

At HMS, 1 in 5 of our financial aid recipients comes from a family whose annual income is $50,000 or less, and 50 percent of our MD student body benefits annually from the Middle Income Initiative.

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 ...

No two human beings are the same, a biologic singularity encoded in the unique arrangement of the molecules that make up our individual DNA. Variation is a cardinal feature of biology, the driver of ...

The first time geneticist George Church visited Siberia was the first summer the permafrost melted. Permafrost by its nature is supposed to stay frozen year-round, but in a marker of encroaching ...