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.
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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.
Forging Paths to Healing, From Immunology to the Biomedical Pipeline
Leonard Nettey almost missed out on one of the most meaningful opportunities of his life. Nettey was early in his MD-PhD training in immunology in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST) when classmate Ashley Kyalwazi asked him to...
Two Students Awarded Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships
Ananthan Sadagopan (BBS) and Arya Rao (Biomedical Informatics) have been awarded the prestigious Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans , a merit-based award that supports outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants pursuing graduate...
Why Is Autism More Common in Males?
Talukdar investigates how X chromosome genes reduce female risk—and potentially protect against other developmental disorders. READ MORE.
Inside the Labs of HMS: Preventing the Next Pandemic
Members of the lab of Jonathan Abraham work together to investigate how viruses infect cells — so the world is better prepared for whatever comes next. VIDEO
