Benchside Conversations

Halfway through her medical training at Beijing, China, Dr. Hao Wu discovered her love for scientific research. Now, the Wu lab at Harvard Medical School focuses on innate immunology, where they use structural biology as a tool to understand molecular and...

Luochen, a fifth-year PhD student in the Virology Program and a member of Dr. Hao Wu’s lab, did not always envision a career in science for herself. Originally drawn to music, she discovered that research offered the same creativity and originality she...

Just over a year ago, Sadie (now Dr. Antine!) was finishing her PhD in Dr. Philip Kranzusch’s lab, where a cryo-EM ‘blob’ she once barely knew how to interpret grew into the foundation of her thesis project. Today, she’s traded bacteria for cancer biology...

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...

If someone were to hand Dr. Aaron Schmidt the answer to just one mystery in virology, it would be to know the origin of viruses. This fascination with life's biggest unknowns has shaped their career, from studying dengue virus entry during their PhD, to...