Gordon Freeman, Arlene Sharpe Receive Inaugural Gretener-Thürlemann Prize

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Gordon Freeman , Harvard Medical School professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Arlene Sharpe , the Kolokotrones University Professor and chair of the Department of Immunology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, have been awarded the inaugural Gretener-Thürlemann Prize by the University of Zurich. The prize, worth 500,000 Swiss francs or approximately $625,000, recognizes outstanding researchers in medicine, chemistry and physics for foundational and pioneering research of societal benefit. Get more HMS news here Freeman and Sharpe were honored for decades of discoveries that…

New Faculty Profiles: Quan Le

2 weeks ago
HBS faculty comprises scholars and practitioners who bring leading-edge research, extensive experience, and deep insights into the classroom, to organizations, and to leaders across the globe. We asked new faculty at HBS about their background, their new roles, and their interests.
Quan Le

New Faculty Profiles: Demi Oba

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HBS faculty comprises scholars and practitioners who bring leading-edge research, extensive experience, and deep insights into the classroom, to organizations, and to leaders across the globe. We asked new faculty at HBS about their background, their new roles, and their interests.
Demi Oba

New Faculty Profiles: Todd Lensman II

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HBS faculty comprises scholars and practitioners who bring leading-edge research, extensive experience, and deep insights into the classroom, to organizations, and to leaders across the globe. We asked new faculty at HBS about their background, their new roles, and their interests.
Todd Lensman

Know Your HBS Staff: Brent Benson

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For more than 10 years, Brent Benson has been building technology for HBS Online as its senior director of architecture and data platforms. We talked with Brent about how his role has scaled alongside HBS Online, what makes his work meaningful (spoiler, it’s people), and his love of music and political data models.
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New Faculty Profiles: Madhav Kumar

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HBS faculty comprises scholars and practitioners who bring leading-edge research, extensive experience, and deep insights into the classroom, to organizations, and to leaders across the globe. We asked new faculty at HBS about their background, their new roles, and their interests.
Madhav Kumar

Subverting Plasmids To Combat Antibiotic Resistance

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Researchers in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School have just opened a new window into understanding the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. The work not only reveals principles of evolutionary biology but also suggests a new strategy to combat the antibiotic resistance crisis, which kills an estimated 1.3 million people per year worldwide. Get more HMS news Findings, supported in part by federal funding, are published Nov. 20 in Science. Members of the labs of Michael Baym, associate professor of biomedical informatics, and Johan Paulsson, professor of systems…
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New Faculty Profiles: Sabrina Howell

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HBS faculty comprises scholars and practitioners who bring leading-edge research, extensive experience, and deep insights into the classroom, to organizations, and to leaders across the globe. We asked new faculty at HBS about their background, their new roles, and their interests.
Sabrina Howell