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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

MD-PhD student Arya Rao is engineering new gene-control systems that could help bring personalized medicine closer to reality. READ MORE.

Study by Ricardo Lopez (current PiN student) flags hidden complexity, could inform neurological disease research. READ MORE

MD/PhD student Alan Wong’s (BBS '26) fundamental research is driven by the needs of patients. READ MORE.

PhD graduate Devorah Kranz brings to research the creativity and holistic thinking she developed growing up in a Hasidic Jewish community. READ MORE.

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...

Ph.D. candidate Isaac Witte retraces ‘incremental advances’ that unlocked CRISPR technique. READ MORE.

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...

PhD graduate Dionnet Bhatti Mazo explores how our brain interprets the world. READ MORE.

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...