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- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Gaining Ground on ALS
president and CEO of Cytokinetics, Inc., a California-based company that focuses on biology-driven treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other debilitating diseases associated with muscle weakness. In 2015, the ALS... View Details
- Web
Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement
Morgan Moncada & Hannah Truong 28 Feb 2023 Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges and Big Opportunities Gabby Choi 19 May 2025 Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health Jennifer Arnold 24 May 2023 Student... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
doctor’s attention, he explained. Innovations like MinuteClinic that reach previously underserved consumers or provide benefits to those overserved by doctor-based care have the potential to reshape the health-care industry, he added. The development of new treatments... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
The football season is about to begin, a familiar signal that summer is over. The game is a huge money-maker on one level and a powerful societal binding agent at another — think Friday Night Lights. But increasing revelations about brain damage and View Details
- Portrait Project
Harman Kochar
If life could be planned I would have already – Eradicated Poverty from the World Controlled Global Warming Established World Peace Cured all Diseases Discovered the fountain of youth and last but not the least.... Built my mansion on... View Details
- Portrait Project
Hope Carlson
have felt that same kind of familial closeness with complete strangers when performing together in choral festivals. I want to give that to people, to alleviate what Mother Teresa called "the greatest disease in the world" -... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- News
A Quick Study
evidence-based study techniques, such as spaced repetition. For instance, while studying sickle cell anemia, a user would receive a push notification quiz question about the disease one day, and then automatically receive another sickle... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Giving New Ventures a Boost
proposed a plan for Judicial Intelligence, a suite of computer-based tools that will help litigators strategically analyze the opinions of judges they will face in court. In the social enterprise track, a team from Harvard’s School of Public Health took top honors for... View Details
- Profile
Henry McCance
unacceptable,” as he puts it, that so little progress had been made to treat a dreaded disease identified more than a century ago and now afflicting five million people in the United States. Friend and fellow venture capital investor... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
diseases in low-and middle-income countries. I am part of CHAI’s Global Malaria Strategy and Financing team, a team that provides direct technical and operational support to countries to strengthen their malaria programs and eradicate the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Richard Edelman
Chicago community, Edelman finds it natural to give back to society. A Civil War buff, he is an active board member of the New-York Historical Society. His interest in fitness and fighting obesity attracted him to the board of the Centers for 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
- 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
Kavya Kopparapu | MBA
cost-effective methods to diagnose diabetic retinopathy and glioblastoma, and resource allocation for healthcare workers in infectious disease settings and have been awarded a patent for my work. However, I've firmly believed the role of... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
illneses take a financial and emotional toll on businesses operating in Africa. "This is not just a disease we're talking about. This is a disease that has the power to destroy economies," said... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
inspiration typically comes from a very human place. DART Therapeutics CEO Gene Williams (MBA 1987) ("Your Own Medicine"), for instance, told us about a revelation he had during a 2002 trip to Rotterdam to observe clinical trials for the first-ever Pompe View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 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
- 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
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
efficiency and effectiveness lie. The 20 percent have chronic diseases or disabilities, such as bad backs, heart disease, AIDS, diabetes, or asthma. These patients need the care of many different specialists: A diabetic, for instance,... 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