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.

“We show that if you can see where a virus is evolving ahead of time, you can begin to make future-proof vaccines,” said ...

Rachel Wolfson, assistant professor of cell biology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, began studying ...

Aortic aneurysms — dangerous bulges in the body’s main artery, the aorta — are becoming increasingly common as more people ...

Failure of a gene-reading quality-control mechanism called Integrator leaves cells littered with abnormal RNA strands that ...

Some endowed professorships are intended to honor expertise within a broad field of study (e.g., psychiatry), whereas others ...

Harvard Medical School developmental biologist Olivier Pourquié is no stranger to scientific honors. He has received research prizes in four different countries and been elected to prestigious groups ...

Christopher Buswinka has always loved music, from listening to records with his father on their Hi-Fi sound system to playing piano at home and trumpet in the school band. Studying bioengineering ...

Two Harvard Medical School students and one incoming HMS student have received 2025 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. They are among 30 graduate students to receive the merit-based ...

Four Harvard Medical School researchers have received awards from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Two have been named Damon Runyon Fellows, and two have received the Damon Runyon-Dale F.