Science & Health

The University has made the Harvard Square Hotel available to house medical personnel and first responders—one of many ways Harvard faculty, students, researchers, and staff are supporting the local response to the pandemic.

Technology created in Harvard labs and supported by entrepreneurship resources on campus is providing a boost to Massachusetts coronavirus testing.

Teams of medical researchers across the University have joined the race to find a treatment for the novel coronavirus as the global pandemic intensifies.

Graduating Harvard Medical School students will have the option to receive their diplomas early so that, if they choose, they can quickly be deployed into hospitals to help treat patients amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Within days of the escalation of infections in Massachusetts, hundreds of Harvard Medical School students began mobilizing to provide voluntary support to clinicians.

Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow joins the presidents of MIT and Stanford in calling on communities nationwide to take drastic action to slow the spread of COVID-19.

As the number of novel coronavirus infections rises daily, strategies for developing a safe and effective vaccine are rapidly moving forward.

A $20 million gift from philanthropists Lisa Yang and Hock Tan MBA '79 establishes the Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research at Harvard Medical School, which will encompass the efforts of basic, translational, and clinical scientists from the entire Harvard ecosystem.

William G. Kaelin is one of three recipients recognized for their work on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.

Harvard researchers are among the 347 scientists being recognized for capturing the first-ever image of a black hole.