Microglia — immune cells in the brain and spinal cord — play crucial roles in keeping the brain healthy, including helping ...

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 ...

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 ...

Immunotherapy has redefined cancer treatment, but not all patients experience the same benefit when treated. New research in mice identifies how gut bacteria alter the body’s response to a common form ...

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 ...

More than 200 new MDs and DMDs gathered with family, friends, and faculty on Harvard Medical School’s campus Quad on May 29 to celebrate their graduation from HMS and the Harvard School of Dental ...

Forward momentum, focus, and freedom were among the themes that students and faculty expressed as 147 scholars emerged from years of intensive study to receive their doctoral hoods at Harvard Medical ...

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Our educational programs advance Harvard Medical School's core mission to alleviate human suffering by nurturing a diverse group of leaders and future leaders in both clinical care and biomedical ...