News from 2019

Building Budding Brain Biologists: Harvard’s Inaugural B4 Program in India

In the gleaming academic fortress of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India, MCB professor Venkatesh Murthy and Advisor/Preceptor Laura Magnotti spent two weeks over…

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MCB Graduate Student Mentors Space Contest Winner      

Fourteen-year-old Alia Al Mansoori of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with help from her Harvard mentor Tessa Montague, has won the 2017 UAE Genes in Space competition. The…

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MCO Graduate to Open Lab Through the Rowland Institute at Harvard

Recent MCO PhD graduate Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, of Professor Nao Uchida’s lab, has been awarded a highly competitive Rowland Junior Fellowship. The five year fellowship will allow Mathis…

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Student Publishes Book on Systems Biology

James Valcourt, a third-year PhD student in Sharad Ramanathan’s lab, has written and published a book for the popular science market. Systematic: How Systems Biology Is Transforming Modern…

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Neurobiology Student to Study Storytelling in Scotland

Brooke Bourgeois, class of 2017 and Neurobiology concentrator, has won a Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship. This post-graduate, year-long fellowship encourages students to explore new areas and new…

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MCO Student Earns Valuable Cancer Biology Fellowship

Second year MCO graduate student Devon Stork has been named one of the five winners of a Landry Cancer Biology Research Fellowship, which are awarded through Harvard’s Landry…

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HIGHER DREAMS BEGAN BEFORE HARVARD

MCB undergraduate Jin Park’s parents came to Flushing, New York from South Korea when he was seven. Their dream was to provide their son with the best possible…

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RECENT MCO GRADUATE NAMED TOP 30 UNDER 30 BY FORBES

Jiang He, who graduated with a Ph.D from Harvard in 2016, was recently named one of the 30 Under 30 for the healthcare sector by Forbes magazine. Jiang,…

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MCB POSTDOC WINS SECOND FELLOWSHIP TO STUDY AUTOPHAGY

Postdoctoral student Chris Shoemaker of the Denic Lab, who previously won a fellowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, has now won the Pathway to Independence (K99)…

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FORMER MEMBER OF UCHIDA LAB WINS SCIENCE & SCILIFELAB PRIZE FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS

Neir Eshel, an MD-PhD graduate from Harvard Medical School and a former member of the Uchida Lab, was named the grand prize winner of an essay contest sponsored…

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