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Harvard Medical School has become a powerful magnet of innovation and opportunity that brings people together to solve society’s most pressing health-related challenges through fundamental and clinical discovery, academic rigor, and a culture of excellence, said HMS Dean George Q. Daley in his annual State of the School Address on Sept. 17. Get more HMS news here Daley highlighted examples of this shared creative force from the past year and provided an overview of the School’s financial, professional, and social health for hundreds of community members gathered in the Joseph B. Martin...

From the moment he wrapped up a visit to Bayer’s offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Patrick Loi knew that the work scientists did there was something he had to be a part of. Loi was in the last year of his PhD program at Harvard, determining his next step. He had been working in a lab at Harvard Medical School developing targeted therapies for different types of tumors, and that day, he heard from scientists at Bayer doing similar work. Get more HMS news here “I immediately connected with some of them on LinkedIn, asking them to keep me in mind if any jobs opened up,” he said. Not long after...