Microglia — immune cells in the brain and spinal cord — play crucial roles in keeping the brain healthy, including helping ...

Federal grants are not gifts; rather, the U.S. government identified these research projects as priorities for the American people and selected researchers at Harvard for this funding through a highly ...

The Office for Culture and Community Engagement (OCCE) at Harvard Medical School promotes inclusive excellence and focuses on two main areas: 1) providing opportunity and access to help individuals ...

In 1962, two European doctors found their paths intersecting in Boston, united by a shared passion for medicine. Vladimir Fencl, MD, CSc (Candidate of Sciences), from Czechoslovakia, joined the ...

M. Lee Pearce attends an HMS Board of Fellows meeting in 2008. The late M. Lee Pearce, MD, a longtime Harvard Medical School benefactor and member of the HMS Board of Fellows, once posed a crucial ...

In a notable continuation of its journey to unravel Parkinson’s disease (PD), a team led by Wade Harper, PhD, the Bert and Natalie Vallee Professor of Molecular Pathology and chair of the Department ...