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Sixteen years ago, Michael Segel was a rising senior at Brookline High School in Massachusetts when, acting on a friend’s suggestion, he signed on for a summer stint at a Harvard stem cell lab. “I was somewhat interested in science, in particular biology, but never thought that it was for me,” Segel says. Get more HMS news But working with renowned biologist Douglas A. Melton , now a distinguished research fellow at Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Catalyst Professor in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences...

Three research teams have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards, an annual awards program that aims to progress promising discovery science at Harvard Medical School toward the creation of new medicines that could be life-changing for patients. Get more HMS news Open to all faculty at the rank of assistant, associate, and full professor at HMS, its affiliated institutions, and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the awards provide critical funding to researchers who’ve made fundamental discoveries with the potential for becoming powerful clinical...

It’s become increasingly clear that the gut microbiome can affect human health, including mental health. Which bacterial species influence the development of disease and how they do so, however, is only just starting to be unraveled. For instance, some studies have found compelling links between one species of gut bacteria, Morganella morganii, and major depressive disorder. But until now no one could tell whether this bacterium somehow helps drive the disorder, the disorder alters the microbiome, or something else is at play. Get more HMS news here Harvard Medical School researchers have now...