HMS Researcher Wins NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award October 24, 2024 Stem cell and regenerative biologist Ryan Flynn will receive funding for glycoRNA research
9 HMS Faculty Elected to National Academy of Medicine October 21, 2024 Marcia Haigis and Hao Wu are recognized with colleagues for major contributions to medicine, health care, and public health
Liau Wins Eli Lilly Award July 24, 2024 Brian Liau is the recipient of the 2025 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
A Disease That Makes Children Age Rapidly Gets Closer to a Cure July 24, 2024 NY Times - Progress in the quest to help progeria patients suggests that gene editing techniques from David Liu's lab may help treat other ultrarare conditions
Gut Bacteria Produce Hormone Involved in Postpartum Depression (Devlin lab) May 28, 2024 Gut Bacteria Produce Hormone Involved in Postpartum Depression
Confronting the Mystery of the Microbiome (Jost lab) November 3, 2023 HMS researcher Marco Jost works to decode the cross talk between microbes and their human hosts
How the Heart Starts Beating (Cohen and Megason labs) September 30, 2023 Researchers discover that heart cells in developing zebrafish start beating suddenly and all at once
Vaginal bacteria must eat to survive — but how? (Balskus lab) August 18, 2023 Chemical analysis brings understudied microbiome into sharper focus
How Dormant Bacteria Return to Life (Rudner Lab) April 30, 2023 Research provides answers to long-standing mystery of bacterial spores, illuminating new paths for disease prevention
Toward New Antiviral Drugs March 15, 2023 Research pinpoints mechanism and possible new therapies against multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants, other coronaviruses
Probing the Microbial World Within Us (Balskus lab) June 29, 2021 Emily Balskus deciphers the human microbiome.
Innovative tool offers hope for children with rapid-aging disease (Liu lab) February 3, 2021 Progeria study finds base-editing therapy more than doubles the lifespan of mice
