Harvard Medical School neurobiologist David Ginty has won The Brain Prize 2026 for his career-long research on our sense of ...

Harvard Medical School’s commitment to leadership in nutrition education began in 1942 with the founding of the first department of nutrition at any school of medicine or public health worldwide. HMS ...

The team is led by Leanne Li of The Francis Crick Institute in London, England. Her research combines cancer biology and neuroscience to investigate how cancer communicates with peripheral nerves ...

A single injection of an oncolytic virus — a virus that has been genetically modified to selectively infect and destroy cancer cells — can recruit immune cells to penetrate and persist deep within ...

Leonard Zon, professor of stem cell and regenerative biology and Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, has been awarded the 2026 March of Dimes Richard B. Johnston Jr., MD Prize ...

For more than two centuries, Harvard Medical School has brought together a community that is deeply committed to advancing science, educating future leaders, and improving health around the world.

Amid unprecedented challenges to research and higher education at Harvard University and across the United States this year, Harvard Medical School scientists continued to push the boundaries of ...

A new AI model called popEVE can predict how likely each variant in a patient’s genome is to cause disease. The team is testing popEVE in clinical settings to see if it can speed accurate diagnoses of ...

Researchers have developed an AI system called Dr. CaBot that spells out its reasoning as it works through challenging medical cases and reaches a diagnosis. For the first time, the New England ...

Correctly distinguishing between look-alike tumors found in the brain during surgery can guide critical decisions in real time while patient is still in the operating room. A new AI tool outperformed ...

A new study in mice describes how the brain rapidly and efficiently increases blood flow to active areas where oxygen and nutrients are needed most. The work shows that the brain relies on a ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters was with a 24-year-old patient whose sickle cell disease left them with ...