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 ...

Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs ...

Medical students today are answering the call to heal patients in the tradition of centuries of physicians before them. But they are facing broken health care systems, exponential advances in ...

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 ...

Title IX Coordinators, https://titleix.harvard.edu/title-ix-coordinator#HMS Harvard University Procedures for Handling Complaints Involving Students Pursuant to the ...

The late M. Lee Pearce, MD, a longtime Harvard Medical School benefactor and member of the HMS Board of Fellows, once posed a crucial question: “What good is all the medical science in the world in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Harvard Medical School Committee on Artwork and Cultural Representations considers artistic projects and proposals for the HMS campus. History of the HMS Committee on Artwork and Cultural ...

The HMS Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership has compiled a list of anti-racism resources. The links below include racial and social justice resources available to the HMS, HSDM ...