A striking phenomenon in the biomedical sciences is that great scientists sometimes arise in clusters at a particular time and place that fosters outstanding scientific achievement. Certain institutions,…
News from 2026
MCB Research Retreat This Weekend
Meet the First-year graduate students: Easun Arunachalam Luolan Bai Karen Bao Julien Barrere Rui Fang Yuan Fang Patrick Gainey Shreyas Gopalakrishnan…
Six Harvard Grad Students Selected As NSF Graduate Research Fellows
The National Science Foundation (NSF)’s prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) provides funding to promising graduate students. This fall, six MCO graduate students-- Easun Arunachalam, Karen Bao, Megan…
Summer Interns Gain Research Experience and Forge Friendships Through SROH Program
This summer, Harvard’s MCO program hosted seven undergraduate researchers through the Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard (SROH) internship program. The interns spent ten weeks performing experiments in Harvard…
Reward and Threat: Two Axes of Dopamine Systems [Uchida Lab]
William James, the “father of American psychology”, was amused when he watched an alligator cautiously approach a human – only to quickly retreat. The alligator repeated this behavior…
2018 Rhino Cup Winners
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2018 Rhino Cup and congratulations to this year's winners! First place: Spiking Variability_OEB – Ölveczky Lab Aaron Burberry, Ashesh Dhawale, Adrian…
Doeke Hekstra Awarded Merck Fellowship
MCB Assistant Professor Doeke Hekstra has been chosen as a recipient of the George W. Merck Fellowship, an award that provides funding to promising tenure-track Harvard professors. Hekstra’s…
CPB Graduate Wins Fulbright Fellowship
Ryan Ward, a Chemical and Physical Biology concentrator who graduated this May, will soon be leaving for a Fulbright fellowship position at the Bowler Lab at the École…
Five Neuroscience Concentrators Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa!
Five graduating Neuroscience concentrators have been elected to the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honor society as part of the “Senior 48”. The new inductees from Neurobiology are: Defne…
This Sibling has a Mission
Nathan Grant, an undergraduate MCB concentrator, chose to study biology for very personal reasons. “My inspiration comes from my twin brother Nik, who has a rare, genetic, lysosomal…
