People

Christophe O. Benoist

cb@hms.harvard.edu

Morton Grove-Rasmussen Professor of Immunohematology

The CBDM lab has varied interests, generally organized around the genomic control of immunological tolerance and autoimmune diseases in T lymphocytes. We study how T cells differentiate into different lineages in the thymus, and how the Aire transcription...

Larry I. Benowitz

larry.benowitz@childrens.harvard.edu

Professor of Neurosurgery and Ophthalmology

CNS injury, including spinal cord damage, stroke, and certain neurodegenerative diseases, can lead to permanent and devastating functional losses. Our primary objectives are to understand the mechanisms that underlie cell death and regenerative failure...

Edward Benz

Edward_Benz@dfci.harvard.edu

Richard and Susan Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine

In erythrocytes, Protein 4.1R is essential for membrane integrity. Deficiencies cause congenital hemolytic anemia. We have shown that there are many isoforms of P4.1R in other tissues. These participate in the mitotic apparatus, costameres, tight...

Bonnie Berger

bab@mit.edu

Member of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Faculty

Bonnie Berger is a Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at MIT, and head of the Computation and Biology group at MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab. After beginning her career working in algorithms at MIT, she was one of the pioneer...

Thomas G. Bernhardt

thomas_bernhardt@hms.harvard.edu

Professor of Microbiology

Bacterial cells come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Within a given class, however, cells typically grow and divide in such a way as to maintain the particular shape and size distribution programmed by their genome. Research in my laboratory is...

Bradley E. Bernstein

bernstein.bradley@mgh.harvard.edu

Professor of Pathology

Though much of what defines a human is encoded in the sequence of our DNA, many additional factors influence how this genetic information is manifest. For example, heritable epigenetic information contained within chromatin, the higher-order structure...

Rameen Beroukhim

rameen_beroukhim@dfci.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Medicine

The Beroukhim laboratory focuses on understanding the somatic genetics of cancer, primarily in identifying alterations in chromosomal structure (including copy-number gains and losses and loss of heterozygosity) that contribute to tumor growth, and...

Sabina Berretta

s.berretta@mclean.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Current investigations in our laboratory are aimed at understanding the molecular and cellular pathology affecting brain circuits involved in psychiatric disorders, and in particular in emotion dysregulation. The involvement of the amygdala in these...

Roby Bhattacharyya

rbhatt@broadinstitute.org

Assistant Professor

The Bhattacharyya lab focuses on characterizing the response of pathogens (bacteria and fungi) to antimicrobials, and of patients to systemic infections, with an emphasis on deepening our mechanistic understanding and diagnosis of infections. While we use...

Joyce E. Bischoff

joyce.bischoff@childrens.harvard.edu

Professor of Surgery

My laboratory is focused on endothelial cells and how they become disrupted in disease. We also study a normal, yet highly proliferative endothelial cell found in blood called endothelial colony forming cells (ECFCs) and how ECFCs might be used in...

Stephen Charles Blacklow

stephen_blacklow@hms.harvard.edu

Gustavus Adolphus Pfeiffer Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

The long-term goal of our research program is to understand the molecular logic of signal transduction, focusing on proteins implicated in human disease. The laboratory currently emphasizes structure-function studies in Notch signaling and maintains an...

T. Keith Blackwell

keith.blackwell@joslin.harvard.edu

Professor of Genetics

My lab studies how organisms defend against environmental and metabolic stresses, and how these stress defenses influence aging. Most of our work involves the nematode C. elegans as a model organism, and many of our projects are centered on the...