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 ...

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 ...

In 1962, two European doctors found their paths intersecting in Boston, united by a shared passion for medicine. Vladimir Fencl, MD, CSc (Candidate of Sciences), from Czechoslovakia, joined the ...

The late M. Lee Pearce, MD, a longtime Harvard Medical School benefactor and member of the HMS Board of Fellows, once posed a crucial question: “What good is all the medical science in the world in ...

In a notable continuation of its journey to unravel Parkinson’s disease (PD), a team led by Wade Harper, PhD, the Bert and Natalie Vallee Professor of Molecular Pathology and chair of the Department ...