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News from 2026

MCB Professor Ahmad (Mo) Khalil Receives Prestigious NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

Ahmad (Mo) Khalil, MCB professor and the Hok Lam and Kathleen Kam Wong Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences…

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Harvard Alumnus Karl Deisseroth ’92 Awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine

October is Nobel season, when the scientific community turns its attention to Stockholm and the discoveries that have transformed our understanding of the world. This year, the celebration…

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FishExplorer Opens New Window on How Brains Evolve Across Species

How much of the way a brain works reflects fundamental principles shared across species—and how much has been shaped by the particular environments and behaviors a species has…

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MCB Research Retreat Brings Science and Community Together on Cape Cod

MCB faculty, researchers, and scientists gathered at the Sea Crest Beach Hotel in North Falmouth on September 18–19 for the annual MCB Research Retreat. This year’s theme, “Inspiring…

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Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI

The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences,…

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Nick Bellono Named 2026 Schmidt Sciences Polymath

MCB Professor Nicholas Bellono has been named a 2026 Schmidt Sciences Polymath, receiving up to $2.5 million over five years to pursue an ambitious new research direction exploring…

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Joseph S. Takahashi to Deliver the Paul Doty Lecture on Thursday, October 8, 2026, at Noon

Joseph S. Takahashi, PhD, a pioneering researcher whose discoveries helped uncover the genetic mechanisms governing circadian rhythms, will deliver the Paul Doty Lecture on Thursday, October 8, at…

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Tien Nguyen Awarded NIH Fellowship to Study Bacterial Cell Division

Tien Nguyen, a fifth-year MCO graduate student, has received an NIH F31 fellowship to investigate how bacteria coordinate the final stages of cell division, research that could uncover…

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