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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Ready for Take-Off
WorldClinic, Inc., a "virtual ER," providing U.S.-quality health-care services to Americans traveling abroad. Cynthia A. Fisher (MBA '90) of ViaCell, Inc., which combines the banking of stem cells from... View Details
Keywords: Spingboard
- 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
- 28 Dec 2016
- News
In Memoriam: Bill Bowes (MBA 1952)
the Harvard Stem Cell Institute as well as service on the advisory committee for the Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics. Bowes was named an HBS Alumni Achievement Award winner in 2009, and his... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
entrepreneurship. In tandem with his business career, Bowes has advanced numerous initiatives through his family foundation, including significant support for stem cell research at Harvard. View Details
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
get money. If they can't get money, they lay off people and cancel projects. Now imagine you are a postdoc in a lab and are working on a project to use human embryonic stem cells to cure diabetes by creating... View Details
- 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
- 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
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
arms of Silicon Valley, the Oz I was fated to call home. Here, I grew up watching the rise of tech giants and developed my own tenacious confidence in the power of technology. Today, video-messaging is not science fiction but a speck... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
and Anna Harrington Periodical:American Journal of Law & Medicine 33, no. 4 (2007) Abstract Since 2001, stem cell science in the United States has been explicitly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
area of scientific inquiry, but also one that has been mired thus far in political controversy. I want to look at how different countries are dealing with this science and what kinds of regulatory regimes they are establishing around it.... 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 View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
people," said Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA '90). In 1993, using her own capital, Fisher founded ViaCord, a business that allows customers to bank cord blood stem cells for possible future use in the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
the perspective of a venture capitalist. Beth Seidenberg, a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), had helped create iZumi Bio, a company with ambitious prospects that she believed had the potential to become "the"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2019
- News
A Quick Study
over online flashcards. By 2012, the pair had left medical school to focus on the founding of Osmosis, in an attempt to bring their tools to a wider audience. A recent profile by the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Family Foundation Universities are ripe with new advances in science and technology, and Harvard is no exception. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a... View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Preparing middle school students for the opportunities that lie ahead
Kim Frock (MBA 1987) helped launch the Alternative School for Math & Science in Corning, New York, a middle school for science, technology, engineering, and math to give young students the skills they need to contribute to society. In... View Details
- Web
Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2021
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard Medical School through the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology—to explore biotech careers in emerging markets, particularly in the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Bismah Rahmat
question – the GDP of Burkina Faso or the science behind cosmic inflation – and unequivocally, he’d know the answer. He did mental math faster than I could punch numbers into a calculator. In my father’s final days, his brain could no... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Powering on wireless electricity
Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is fueled by a mission to never have to “plug in” again. The CEO of WiTricity, a startup revolutionizing science with its magnetic resonance technology, hopes to soon relegate electrical wires and batteries to the... View Details