Harvard Medical School1 天
New Understanding of How Genetic Mutation Causes Huntington’s Disease
Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...
Harvard Medical School7 年
Welcome from the Director and Program Overview
Our mission is to train the next generation of premier and diverse physician-scientist leaders, who represent a rich spectrum of clinical disciplines and research areas from basic and translational ...
Harvard Medical School24 年
Awards & Recognitions: December 2024
The 2024 NAI Fellows represent 135 research universities and governmental and nonprofit research institutions worldwide, and ...
Harvard Medical School4 年
Nightmares and the Brain
This definition came from the popular reference text, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, first published by Nathan Bailey in 1721 and reprinted through 1802. Although that definition ...
Harvard Medical School1 年
Timeline of Discovery
Oliver Wendell Holmes identifies the cause and prevention of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever. Theobald Smith identifies the mechanism of insect-borne disease transmission, discovers the ...
Harvard Medical School4 年
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, FACP, FTOS is an obesity medicine physician scientist, educator, and policy maker at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a ...
Harvard Medical School1 个月
Education & Admissions
Established in 1782, the School has produced generations of physicians whose life's work is to care for patients with skill, compassion and integrity. HMS graduates also embrace opportunities to have ...
Harvard Medical School4 年
Reading and the Brain
Gaab, an HMS associate professor of pediatrics, heads a research unit in the Laboratories for Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston Children’s Hospital. Infants must learn to process sounds. By early ...
Harvard Medical School12 年
Harvard Longwood Campus Maps and Directions
Harvard Medical School's main address is 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115. The campus can be conveniently accessed via Longwood Avenue, at the intersection of Avenue Louis Pasteur. Follow the ...
Harvard Medical School7 年
The History of HMS
Established in 1782, Harvard Medical School began with a handful of students and a faculty of three. The first classes were held in Harvard Hall in Cambridge, long before the School’s iconic ...
Harvard Medical School4 年
Addiction and the Brain
With the recent rise in opioid abuse and overdose, which has quickly become a national health epidemic, scientists are focused increasingly on understanding the science behind addiction and its effect ...
Harvard Medical School3 个月
Dancing and the Brain
How many of those who are ballroom dancing, doing the foxtrot, break dancing, doing the foxtrot, break dancing, or line dancing, realize that they are doing something positive for their bodies—and ...