Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

Biochemical analyses provide an answer to the question of how the gut bacterium Morganella morganii might contribute to some ...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine have mapped a critical component of the Nipah virus, a highly lethal bat-borne pathogen that has ...

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 ...

Researchers design a new way to more reliably evaluate AI models’ ability to make clinical decisions in realistic scenarios that closely mimic real-life interactions. The analysis finds that large ...

An endowed professorship is the highest distinction that can be bestowed upon an HMS faculty member. For more than 240 years, these exclusive honors have provided critical financial support to leaders ...

Left: Emery Brown receives the National Medal of Science at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. Right: David Walt receives the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, Harvard Medical School associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, has been named a 2024 Innovation Fund investigator by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes identifies the cause and prevention of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever. Theobald Smith identifies the mechanism of insect-borne disease transmission, discovers the ...