Harvard Medical School

The Harvard Faculty of Medicine conducts research in a score of locations around Boston. Ten academic basic and social science departments are housed around the Harvard Medical School quadrangle. But many of the faculty appointed to these departments are based at the 18 teaching hospitals and other affiliated institutions that constitute Harvard medicine. Forty-eight clinical departments conduct vast amounts of basic and clinical research in all areas of medical science.

Affiliation: Harvard Medical School
Web site: http://hms.harvard.edu/

Recent articles about Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School grad heads for International Space Station (November 16, 2009)
Researchers ‘NOTCH’ a victory in war on cancer (November 12, 2009)
Darkness with the light (October 26, 2009)
Researchers exploit genetic ‘co-dependence’ to kill treatment-resistant tumor cells (October 20, 2009)
Bringing new meaning to the term scientific paper (October 19, 2009)
From stem cells to functioning strip of heart muscle (October 15, 2009)
Stimulus funds provide welcome research boost (October 15, 2009)
Three Harvard teams to receive $9 million each in federal funding for stem cell research (October 8, 2009)
Harvard team reports major step forward in cell reprogramming (October 8, 2009)
Jack Szostak 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (October 5, 2009)
Not having health insurance is expensive (October 5, 2009)
Donald Ingber awarded the 2009 BMES Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship for outstanding achievements, originality and leadership (October 2, 2009)
NIH funds risky, potentially transformative research by Harvard faculty members (September 24, 2009)
Huybers and Mahadevan named MacArthur Foundation Fellows (September 22, 2009)
New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage (September 17, 2009)
Drug for MS reactivates virus causing deadly brain disease (September 10, 2009)
Neural response to electrical currents isn't localized, as previously believed (August 26, 2009)
Study finds promise in combined transplant/vaccine therapy for high-risk leukemia (August 24, 2009)
Low-carb diets linked to atherosclerosis and impaired blood vessel growth (August 24, 2009)
New metabolic safeguards against tumor cells revealed (August 19, 2009)

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