Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School’s Top Science News of 2025

Here are the 10 most-read news stories about HMS-led discoveries in 2025.
Houston Public Media

After NIH grant cuts, breast cancer research at Harvard slowed, and lab workers left

Joan Brugge, Ph.D., in her office at Harvard Medical School. "I can't stop just because of these hardships that we're facing now," Brugge says. "We all need to work hard to make a difference for ...
WBUR

Antibiotic research at Harvard lab threatened by federal funding cuts

Researchers at Harvard are adjusting to a devastating reality this week: The Trump administration has announced it's cutting more than $2 billion in funding to the institution. Michael Baym is a ...
The Harvard Crimson

Can Harvard Cure Science’s Mistrust Epidemic?

Ambika Grover ‘27, a Crimson Editorial Editor, is a joint concentrator in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Statistics in Leverett House and a student researcher in the Patel Lab. Recent cases of ...
Futurism

Harvard Professor Quietly Gives His Lab Workers His Entire Salary Every Year

As billionaire tech moguls ravish public research funds and startups siphon knowledge workers into pie-in-the-sky venture capitalist schemes, one professor has found his own key to innovation: ...
The Boston Globe

I signed up my dog for a brain study at Harvard. Here’s what I learned.

Can science unlock the brain of my dog, who is both a bullyish rogue and an incredibly affectionate, sweet pet? Benito, my yellow Lab, was admitted to Harvard University last week — only it was for a ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Northwest Labs Director Alain Viel Appointed UNESCO Chair on Life Sciences and Innovation

Alain Viel, director of the Northwest Undergraduate Laboratories and a Harvard senior lecturer in Molecular and Cellular Biology, has assumed the role of chair on life sciences and social innovation ...
The Boston Globe

‘The money is now basically gone’: After one year under Trump, this once-vibrant lab is now almost silent

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here, and explore the rest of its American ...
Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2025-2026 Blavatnik Fellows

BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2025-26 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s twelfth cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a ...