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Funding for the future
Five young and six established Harvard faculty members have received grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under two programs designed to stimulate innovative and transformative research...
View ArticleHarvard scientist wins Sackler Prize
Harvard Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics Xiaowei Zhuang has been awarded the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics, awarded at Tel Aviv University in...
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Neurons in youth
Have you ever wondered why infants can learn foreign languages easily, while older children and parents struggle? Or why your third-grader can fix your computer, but you can barely check your email?...
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Imaging instruction
Though it was quickly adopted by the scientific community, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics Xiaowei Zhuang worried that researchers using the system of technology of...
View ArticleTwo elected to NAS
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) elected additional members at its annual meeting on April 30. Harvard professors Susan Athey, Department of Economics, and Xiaowei Zhuang, Department of...
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AAAS names 7 fellows from Harvard
Seven faculty members from Harvard University have been named American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by...
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11 elected to American Academy
Some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Those...
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American Academy announces 233rd class
Harvard’s David Matthew Altshuler, professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School (HMS); Xandra Owens Breakefield, professor of neurology, HMS; Paul Arthur Buttenwieser, clinical instructor in...
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Three faculty members receive NAS awards
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has recognized three Harvard faculty members for their extraordinary scientific achievements: Catherine Dulac, Hopi Hoekstra, and Xiaowei Zhuang. Catherine...
View ArticleHarvard researchers among those receiving more than $150M from NIH BRAIN...
Harvard scientists are among dozens of researchers who will receive more than $150 million in funding over the next five years through the National Institute of Health’s Brain Research through...
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Harvard’s Xiaowei Zhuang awarded 2019 Breakthrough Prize
Xiaowei Zhuang, the David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been named the recipient of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in...
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Key region of brain examined through cellular atlas
For decades, scientists have viewed the brain as a veritable black box — and now Catherine Dulac and Xiaowei Zhuang are poised to open it. Dulac, the Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology...
View Article10 Harvard faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Ten Harvard University scientists have been elected by their peers to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of “their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”...
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Harvard researchers create DNA ‘propellers’
For decades, researchers have chased ways to study how biological machines power living things. Every mechanical movement — from contracting a muscle to replicating DNA — relies on energy-fueled...
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Star-Friedman Challenge awards 7 cutting-edge science projects
In this moment of great global uncertainty, the Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research is helping Harvard researchers rise to the challenge. Funds from the Challenge are enabling...
View ArticleBrain controls symptoms of sickness
Here’s what happens when you get an infection: The nervous system talks to the immune system to figure out that the body is under attack and then orchestrates a series of behavioral and physiological...
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Fresh insights into inflammation, aging brains
Results from a new study by Harvard researchers just published in Cell offer insights into the relationship between inflammation and the cognitive impairment we experience as we age, and suggest the...
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