Ginty shares the 2026 Brain Prize for research that has revealed the cellular machinery and neural signals underlying our sense of touch. His findings explain how touch information is communicated ...

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.

Simonson came to HMS in July 2025 from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, where she started at the front desk of student affairs, earned a master’s and doctorate, and ultimately became ...

A new set of tools allows researchers to tag cells that receive signals from immune molecules called cytokines. The method reveals, for the first time, when, where, and how cells react and allows ...

Brain scans of human subjects revealed regions of the cerebellum that are involved in language processing. The study is part of a broader effort to learn about the brain’s extended language network, ...