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Jonathan Abraham, M.D., Ph.D.

abraham@crystal.harvard.edu

Associate Professor

Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School

We use methods in molecular biology, immunology, and structural biology to study host-pathogen interactions, with the goal of informing strategies aimed at treating or preventing infection. Several enveloped RNA viruses cause human viral hemorrhagic...

Karen Adelman, Ph.D.

Karen_Adelman@hms.harvard.edu

Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Associate Member, Broad Institute

The Adelman lab studies the changes in gene regulation and epigenetics that drive development and stress-responses . Cell-type and condition-specific patterns of gene expression are established through a sophisticated network of interactions between...

Mark L. Andermann, Ph.D. (He/Him/ His)

manderma@bidmc.harvard.edu

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

The goal of my lab is to understand the role of corticolimbic areas in guiding attention to, and imagery, learning and memory of, motivationally-salient external and interoceptive stimuli. The way that external stimuli are encoded in brain activity is...

Haribabu Arthanari, Ph.D.

hari_arthanari@hms.harvard.edu

Associate Professor

Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Therapeutic Targeting of Protein-Protein Interactions. Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) are the Holy Grail of therapeutic intervention, offering a plethora of distinct structural landscapes that can be targeted with high specificity. Arthanari lab uses...

John A. Assad

john_assad@hms.harvard.edu

Professor of Neurobiology

Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Understanding how the brain controls behavior by integrating external sensory information with internal states, such as attention or motivation. In our lab in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, we worked for many years with non...

Brian J. Bacskai

bbacskai@partners.org

Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Principal Investigator, Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital

Researching Alzheimer's disease using multiphoton microscopy to observe, in vivo, the anatomy and physiology of specific cell type in the brain. Our laboratory uses sophisticated optical techniques to address fundamental questions in Alzheimer's disease...

Michael Baym, Ph.D. (He/ Him/ His)

baym @ hms.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

Member of the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology

Our lab studies microbial evolution, primarily of antibiotic resistance, with a goal of developing practical interventions to reduce or reverse resistance. This will require advances both in technology and in the basic science of resistance evolution. Our...

Vassilios J. Bezzerides, MD, PhD

bezzerides@cardio.chboston.org

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cardiology Department

Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

My research is focused on developing model systems to gain fundamental insights in disease mechanisms within the heart and the brain. Using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and genome editing, we create human disease models caused by ion channels...

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Stephen C. Blacklow, M.D., Ph.D.

Gustavus Adolphus Pfeiffer Professor

Chair, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Member, Department of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

The Blacklow laboratory studies biochemical and molecular mechanisms of signal transduction. A major focus is on elucidating key events mediated by the Notch signaling pathway in health and disease. The primary long-term goal of our research program is to...

Alan Brown

Alan_Brown@hms.harvard.edu

Associate Professor

Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

The long-term goal of the Brown laboratory is to understand the structure and function of cilia (also known as eukaryotic flagella). Cilia are finger-like organelles that project from the surface of almost all eukaryotic cells. Motile cilia produce a...

Martha L. Bulyk, Ph.D. (She/ Her/ Hers)

mlbulyk@genetics.med.harvard.edu

Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Division of Genetics, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Co-Chair, Harvard Biophysics Graduate Program

Transcription factors and DNA regulatory elements. Although numerous genomes have been sequenced, much still remains to be understood about how gene expression is regulated. The interactions between transcription factors (TFs) and their DNA binding sites...

Stephen Buratowski, Ph.D. (He/ Him/ His)

steveb@hms.harvard.edu

Professor of Biological Chemistry and Moelcular Pharmacology

Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Member, Harvard Center for Cancer Research

The Buratowski Lab studies eukaryotic gene transcription, chromatin regulation, and RNA processing using a wide range of biochemical, molecular, and genetic techniques. The Buratowski lab studies eukaryotic gene expression, focusing on mRNA transcription...