Science & Health

Harvard scientists are exploring faster diagnostics, better symptom management, and promising cures for conditions that have a long-term impact on our health.

Harvard bioengineers have developed a way to create customized synthetic vascular grafts in mere minutes, which could someday allow surgeons to perform time-sensitive, personalized medical treatments in the operating room.

In a wide-ranging interview at The Economic Club of Washington, D.C., President Alan M. Garber discussed federal research funding and other critical issues facing universities.

A Harvard professor co-created innovative technology that gives some smartphone users alerts about dangerous seismic activity.

New grants from the Star Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research will support seven cutting-edge research projects led by faculty across Harvard.

Technology born out of Harvard labs shows the power of collaboration and how the path to development seldom follows a straight line.

Harvard chemical biologist Greg Verdine, a force behind a promising experimental treatment for pancreatic cancer, learned the value of improvisational thinking from a devastating family accident.

Professor of organismic and evolutionary biology Mandë Holford uncovers the secrets of venomous sea snails and cephalopods, their toxins, and how those compounds might be turned into medicines for human diseases.

A gift from Lisa and Mark Schwartz AB ’76, MBA ’79, MPP ’79 will provide financial aid to MD-PhD students in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology.

Devorah Kranz PhD ’25 brings the creativity and holistic thinking she developed growing up in a Hasidic Jewish community to research on the neurological health of children. By identifying biomarkers of Rett syndrome, Kranz is deepening scientists’ understanding of a much more common condition: autism.