The 2025 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to three scientists whose discoveries culminated in the development ...

Microglia — immune cells in the brain and spinal cord — play crucial roles in keeping the brain healthy, including helping shape neural circuits as well as getting rid of infectious bacteria and ...

Federal grants are not gifts; rather, the U.S. government identified these research projects as priorities for the American people and selected researchers at Harvard for this funding through a highly ...

You’re an emergency medicine resident responding to a page. You step into an emergency department consultation room and see a 67-year-old Haitian American woman experiencing shortness of breath. You ...

Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs ...

Medical students today are answering the call to heal patients in the tradition of centuries of physicians before them. But they are facing broken health care systems, exponential advances in ...

The simple yet effective molecular machinery of viruses can cause devastating disease, but it also offers critical clues about the fundamental principles that govern all life, says Shira ...

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The Office for Culture and Community Engagement (OCCE) at Harvard Medical School promotes inclusive excellence and focuses on two main areas: 1) providing opportunity and access to help individuals ...

This figure displays the principal steps in seeking approval to establish a new HMS Clinical Academic Department. These steps are sequential and may be paused at any stage of the process when ...