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2025 Virology Retreat

Welcome

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What an exciting time to study virology! Here at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and affiliated hospitals, our virology community is at the forefront of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: from advancing vaccine candidates for human clinical trials and pioneering diagnostic and surveillance efforts to conducting basic research in SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis. This work continues our community’s long history of virology research. We have made, and continue to make, seminal contributions to basic research elucidating new structures of viruses, viral glycoproteins, and virus-encoded enzymes, characterizing viral trafficking within cells, and mechanisms that control cell growth. We are among the world leaders in the design and testing of HIV, genital herpes, and influenza vaccines. Learn more about our Program...

Virology Spotlight

Lamount Evanson - Schmidt lab

As a child, Lamount Evanson , a PhD candidate in the Virology Program (G3), imagined a very different future for himself. It took a very special journey for him to find his passion in virology, from his family’s hotel in Antigua to an art installation at...
Lamount Evanson

Accolades

Congratulations to... Cori Isbell for receiving the NSF GRFP fellowship Vicky Apostolou for receiving the Boehring Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship Hendrik Michel, whose paper “PASTA: Versatile Tyramide-oligonucleotide Amplification for Multi-modal Spatial...
G4 Talks 2026 symposium speakers