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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives
in the world, helping thousands of patients with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases in need of matching donors to save their lives. Because a close genetic match is necessary, even with a registry of millions, 6 out of 10... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
University of Cincinnati every year for treatment? Why does he seem to struggle to walk? Horgan eventually came to understand that his brother suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy—a fatal, childhood genetic disease that impacts about... View Details
- Web
VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
repairs Tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies Observations room patients after ED care Chronic & Primary Care End-stage kidney disease Diabetes Congestive heart failure Audiology Dementia Degenerative neurological View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
Product Development & Marketing, where Product Development Specialists and Breeders explained the process for developing new tomato varieties. Many different factors (e.g., consumer preferences such as taste and shape, disease... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the technology is improved, the faster researchers can find cures... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
newly opened facility to accommodate its vaccine development work, and CEO Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) welcomed input on the design from the government’s infectious disease experts. For two years, Moderna had been working closely... View Details
- Portrait Project
Elizabeth Bruyere
and strong, had finally succumbed to the disease he had so desperately tried to defeat. I had years to wonder how I would feel at this moment. Discouraged? Emboldened? Relieved? Instead, I felt nothing. I searched hopelessly for meaning... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS
where diseases gain entry to the body through bare feet. To combat malnutrition, Yunus worked with Groupe Danone to manufacture a low-cost, fortified yogurt that is sold door-to-door. Ventures such as these, whose only goal is to solve... View Details
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THE VALUE OF THE PHYSICIAN SHADOW PROGRAM: Witnessing The Front Lines of Care Delivery - Blog: Health Supplement
Systems Morgan Moncada & Hannah Truong 28 Feb 2023 Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges and Big Opportunities Gabby Choi 07 Feb 2025 Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation... View Details
- Fast Answer
Hospitals: statistics (US)
style="line-height: 20.8px;"> by AHA) Incidence & Prevalence Database - world's epidemiology data including some surgical patient volumes Centers... View Details
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
donation." In "Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative," Barrett, Austin and McCarthy examine one such collaboration, a joint effort of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and Pfizer, Inc. to combat the devastating... View Details
- Portrait Project
CiCi Barrett
Thank you, cancer. You’ve brought love and happiness into my life. I didn’t always feel grateful. I was only 6 when my mom was first diagnosed. Back then, I was too young to understand, but when her cancer returned 7 years later, my toxic relationship with the View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics
recent addition to the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem. DZD comprises a multi-disciplinary team of Harvard affiliates whose expertise in medicine, genome sequencing, and machine learning is helping doctors diagnose infectious diseases... View Details
- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
emigrated from Korea. After graduating from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering, Kim went to work for a biotech startup, Ceres Nanosciences. The company makes nanoparticles that improve early and accurate detection for View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
reduce human disease and suffering influences his work as a health care economist and researcher. “I imagine a world where we have treatments, ideally cures, for diseases where right now we have nothing,” he... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Ticked Off
The HBS Club of Connecticut Community Partners recently partnered with Time for Lyme (TFL), a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating the devastating effects of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. Founded in 1998, TFL has raised... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Business Plan Contest Winners
The 12th annual HBS Business Plan Contest winner in the social enterprise track was Diagnostics-For-All (DFA), a nonprofit launched to develop a disposable, low-cost, paper-based “lab-on-a-chip” for use in diagnosing liver, kidney, and metabolic View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
appointed Representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza last year. She also serves as Assistant Director-General for the Communicable Diseases Cluster. With so much at stake, what keeps Chan focused? “A sheer passion... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jamie Chang
I want to heal. Scanning the room in this make-shift clinic, we were surrounded by patients wasting away from diseases we knew how to cure, and patients suffering from disabilities we knew how to fix. Although the money had been raised to... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Providing the Care That Seniors Need
out of Harvard Business School, I became a real estate developer with a specialty on medical campuses. Almost simultaneously, my mother-in-law developed what we know today to be early-stage Alzheimer’s disease and I found myself caught... View Details