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 ...

For more than two centuries, Harvard Medical School has brought together a community that is deeply committed to advancing science, educating future leaders, and improving health around the world.

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

Growing up in Greece, Iosif Lazaridis shared his compatriots’ appreciation that they lived in “the crossroads of Europe and Asia,” past and present. Many people moved to Greece from the Balkans after ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters was with a 24-year-old patient whose sickle cell disease left them with ...

The main treatment for bipolar disorder, lithium, was approved a half-century ago but doesn’t help all patients and has significant side effects. Little progress has been made in finding better ...

Study shows for the first time that lithium plays an essential role in normal brain function and can confer resistance to brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists discovered that lithium is ...

Many of us have seen microscopic images of neurons in the brain — each neuron appearing as a glowing cell in a vast sea of blackness. This image is misleading: Neurons don’t exist in isolation. In the ...

In a study of lab-engineered cells, Harvard Med researchers identify how the immune system neutralizes the herpesvirus. The research maps, for the first time, the maneuvers used by virus and host in ...

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 ...

Luca Maini, assistant professor of health care policy in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, studies competition and regulation in pharmaceutical markets. He has studied how national ...