Harvard researchers have unveiled a way to map the molecular underpinnings of how learning and memories are formed, a groundbreaking new technique expected to offer insights that may pave the way for new treatments for neurological disorders such as dementia.
Protecting mothers during childbirth, reimagining how hydrogen can be transported safely and affordably, improving financial outcomes for livestock farmers. These are just a few of the extraordinary winning ventures of the 2025 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge.
The Slade Lab applies insights gleaned from AI-generated simulations to build real-world biomedical devices with the potential to improve the everyday lives of people with motor challenges.
The Harvard-led Undiagnosed Diseases Network has discovered nearly 100 rare conditions, including a disorder that led a father to lose his vision but was diagnosed in time to help his son.
Research by Travis Donahoe PhD '23 finds that enforcement actions targeting suppliers that profit from the opioid crisis, rather than the vulnerable individuals swept up in it, are a critical way to stem the tide of addiction and death.
Federally funded research by Harvard scholars has led to life-changing solutions to real-world problems facing millions of Americans, from preventing opioid deaths to treating diseases to building a better air conditioner.
Alberto Ascherio MPH ’89, DPH ’92 was honored for work establishing a link between Epstein-Barr virus and multiple sclerosis, Joel Habener for contributions to the development of GLP-1 drugs, and David Liu for the development of the gene editing platforms.
A Harvard patient-scientist and her husband are among the researchers behind a gene-editing technique that could lead to a treatment for a handful of rare, fatal disorders caused by misfolded proteins in the brain.
Inspired by his experience with malaria as a child in Ghana, Wyss Institute scientist Kwasi Adu-Berchie SM ’18, PhD ’22 is working to make health care more equitable globally.
As a graduate student, Rob Devlin PhD ’17 helped develop an innovative mini-lens. Now he runs a startup that produces millions of the devices for use in an array of consumer electronics.
