Fighting Blindness with a Virus
Injecting the eye with a virus can treat age-related blindness—or kill the very cells that need healing. Virologist Apolonia Gardner, PhD ’26 investigates why this innovative treatment succeeds or fails. READ MORE
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Making Medicine More Precise
MD-PhD student Arya Rao is engineering new gene-control systems that could help bring personalized medicine closer to reality. READ MORE.
Common Neuroscience Sensors Sometimes Get Their Signals Crossed
Study by Ricardo Lopez (current PiN student) flags hidden complexity, could inform neurological disease research. READ MORE
Starving Cells of Copper To Improve Childhood Leukemia Treatments
MD/PhD student Alan Wong’s (BBS '26) fundamental research is driven by the needs of patients. READ MORE.
Making Important Contributions To Understanding Rett Syndrome, Autism
PhD graduate Devorah Kranz brings to research the creativity and holistic thinking she developed growing up in a Hasidic Jewish community. READ MORE.
As They Advance Critical Research, PhD Graduates Agree: ‘Science Is a Community Project’
Community and mentorship shone as prominent themes at the Harvard Medical School-Affiliated PhD Programs Hooding Ceremony on May 28 as scholars received their doctoral hoods after many years studying, collaborating, and stretching themselves as they...
First rule of a disease fighter: Be curious
Ph.D. candidate Isaac Witte retraces ‘incremental advances’ that unlocked CRISPR technique. READ MORE.
How Music Moves the Brain
Christine Junhui Liu graduated from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in November 2025 with a PhD in speech and hearing bioscience and technology. She discusses her early passion for the viola, how curiosity about music...
Persistence Brought This First-Generation Student to a Career in Neuroscience
PhD graduate Dionnet Bhatti Mazo explores how our brain interprets the world. READ MORE.
Stopping Cervical Cancer Before It Starts
A researcher focused on developing therapeutic vaccines for the human papillomavirus (HPV), Alton Gayton will graduate from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in May 2026 with a PhD in virology. He discusses his pioneering...
Changing the World, One Vaccine at a Time
From machine learning to clinical care, graduating MD-PhD student Anusha Nathan tackles infectious disease. READ MORE.
Finding Cancer's Weakness
Can starving leukemia cells of copper make treatment less damaging to children? READ MORE.
