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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...
Meet Bundibugyo – Ebola’s Understudied Relative
As the summer progresses, cases of Ebola virus continue to soar in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda. With over 3500 cases to date and over 1500 deaths, this is the fastest growing outbreak of Ebola to date and stands as the third...
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...
From Moon Shot to Arm Shot: The Story of the Measles Vaccine
Measles is a highly infectious childhood disease caused by the measles virus (MeV). Symptoms include fever, cough, and the infamous blotchy red rash . The cough is doubly dangerous, as it can transmit the virus through respiratory droplets where the virus...
Dr. Aaron Schmidt, PhD
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...
Stopping Cervical Cancer Before It Starts
A researcher focused on developing therapeutic vaccines for the human papillomavirus (HPV), Alton Gayton will graduate from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in May 2026 with a PhD in virology. He discusses his pioneering...
Tour the Veritas Science Center with Jessica Chen
Fifth-year PhD student Jessica Chen shows us around the newly renamed Veritas Science Center on the Harvard Medical School campus. See the video here . There are about 90 labs and 1,000 researchers in the VSC, including researchers from HMS affiliate...
I'm Worried About the Future of Virology
The federal government has terminated numerous federally funded grants and contracts to Harvard and is scaling back investments in scientific and medical research across the country. In this series, Harvard Medical School scientists discuss how these...
Evolution Tamed Once-Deadly Western Equine Encephalitis. Should We Still Worry?
Virology student, Wanyu Li, is the first author of the July 24 Nature publication, offering important lessons for public health experts looking to prepare for future outbreaks.
Inside a Bacterial Defense System — and Its Defeat
The structure of the Gabija protein complex was revealed only recently by Virology doctoral candidate Sadie Antine in the lab of Philip Kranzusch, professor of microbiology, who is featured in this article in HMS News. Read more here.
To Improve the Health of Children
Virology alum Kellie Ann Jurado, PhD ’15, hopes to change the way scientists understand early-life immunity. https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/improve-health-children-0
Watch Live Stream of 2023 DMS Hooding Ceremony
The 2023 DMS Hooding ceremonies will be live-streamed on YouTube. Thursday, May 25, 2023: Hooding Ceremony for 2023 graduates begins at 5:00pm. The video can be viewed by visiting our Commencement and Hooding page. Congratulations and Best Wishes to all...
