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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...