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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Furthers Entrepreneurial Dreams
internship at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute during the summer before his senior year prompted Okeke to consider how he could broaden his impact in health care through business. He applied to, and was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
from fossil fuels to alternative sources of energy. We will need to finance research in technology innovation and biotechnology, including stem cell research. We will need to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
very excited about having HBS, and the University more broadly, be a part of the effort to reduce human suffering, because that’s what drives all of us. That’s the shared value among the scientists in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School, the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
is now used to raise or grow feed for livestock. As Alvarez notes in the case, the United States alone is home to 90 million cattle. Each animal creates 65 pounds of waste a day, the processing of which contributes significantly to global warming. With lab-grown beef,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
really is no business of stem cells yet. There’s research, and money going into research, but to date there are no products being sold on the open market. It’s a fledgling business. The other major... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
1990. The science of harvesting, processing, and freezing stem cells was already known from bone-marrow transplants. "I remember thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great if every child born could have a small sample... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A revolution in healing
proteins. Moderna's mRNA Therapeutics gives patients' cells the code they need to begin creating their own proteins and antibodies to fight disease, allowing the body to heal itself. "We believe we have a chance to do something... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
training at Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, a collaboration between Harvard Medical School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Students complete HBS’s MBA Required Curriculum,... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s interest in US transportation and infrastructure began well before Boston’s record-setting 2015 snowstorms focused national attention on the downside of deferred maintenance for aging public transit systems. In February 2014, following 20 months... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
is one of energy and that however you slice it, we’re going to run out of energy. Today you could cover the entire Nevada desert with solar cells and you could take care of all the energy needs of the entire planet. But if you... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
It was a milestone to celebrate: Earlier this year, designations from FDA and European Union regulators moved researchers at the Boston-based startup Akouos, Inc., a step closer to producing the first-ever therapy for gene-mediated... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
the early 1970s. Our two years at the School were marked by long days in the insular environment of Aldrich and even longer evenings spent cracking cases and researching papers at Baker. Our academic reverie was sometimes interrupted by... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Cultivating the Next Generation of Thought Leaders
game-changing ideas, these examples of pathbreaking research emerged from HBS faculty members early on in their careers. Today Porter holds the Bishop William Lawrence University Professorship and Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
psychiatric patients. This targeted approach gives Bennet hope that Harmoni can benefit not only people suffering from movement disorders, but also a whole class of psychiatric patients. But working under Bennet and his collaborator, neurosurgeon Kendall Lee, a team of... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
rare blood disorders, including pyruvate kinase deficiency, thalassemia and sickle cell disease. Mathur is a principal at Segard, a multi-strategy alternative asset management firm, within the Sagard Healthcare strategy. And the... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A man on a mission
and physics at Cleveland community colleges at night while his career took off at the space agency’s Glenn Research Center during the day. “I felt such an obligation to those teachers who had helped me, and one way I could pay them back... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
research. I’m interested in very focused and very early investing. What’s the next big thing in that area? Stem cell initiatives are going to produce interesting therapeutics. Good diagnostic and early... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
a Master of Science (MS) in Biotechnology: Life Sciences from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) through Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, a joint department of Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 May 2016
- News
Education Is the Key
nonprofit business and economics institution in Brazil. The Insper Institute of Education and Research, he says, aims to address the shortage of prepared leaders. “Many of our problems [in Brazil] stem from microeconomics,” he says. “We... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
school there, MIT, and I met a really great individual, Jonathan Fleming. Jonathan and I connected. He knew what I was about, Duchenne, and trying to save my brother and the boys like him. He suggested I meet with a researcher over at... View Details