Simonson came to HMS in July 2025 from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, where she started at the front desk of student affairs, earned a master’s and doctorate, and ultimately became ...

Leonard Zon, professor of stem cell and regenerative biology and Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, has been awarded the 2026 March of Dimes Richard B. Johnston Jr., MD Prize ...

Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the ...

Previous studies have reported that the cerebellum, which is most well-known for coordinating the body’s movements, is also ...

Though health care quality and safety are paramount concerns today, the emphasis on patient safety as a mission-oriented imperative has only been common in the last 25 to 30 years. Medical and ...

A clinic is far more than a building that houses care providers. It’s a complex nexus of staff, physicians, patients, infrastructure, and technology—and when it’s designed and managed well, it’s much ...

Amid unprecedented challenges to research and higher education, HMS scientists continued to push the boundaries of biomedical discovery and health care delivery.

The Master of Medical Sciences in Clinical Investigation program is designed for the next generation of independent investigators. Medical professionals applying should hold an MD, PhD, MBBS, MBBCh, ...

Sleep is one of the most essential human activities — so essential, in fact, that if we don’t get enough sleep for even one night, we may struggle to think, react, and otherwise make it through the ...

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. A new study of more than 800,000 people has found that in the U.S., COVID “long haulers” were more likely to be older ...

No two human beings are the same, a biologic singularity encoded in the unique arrangement of the molecules that make up our individual DNA. Variation is a cardinal feature of biology, the driver of ...