Faculty

Kang-Kuen Ni, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, has been named to the 2026 class of Brown Investigators, a cohort of midcareer faculty recognized for bold, curiosity-driven research in physics and chemistry. Each...

Richard Liu has been awarded a 2025-27 George W. Merck Fellowship. The fellowship is for a period of two years, through the end of the academic year 2026-27, which comes with $600,000 in support for your research, paid out in equal installments of $300...

Laboratories turned to a smart workaround when COVID‑19 testing kits became scarce in 2020. They mixed samples from several patients and ran a single test. If the test came back negative, everyone in it was cleared at once. If it was positive, follow-up...

Xiaowei Zhuang, David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has been awarded the 2026 Ernest Solvay Prize by Syensqo “for pioneering the development of genome-scale imaging, which has...

Some wildfires are so intense, they create their own weather – thunderstorms driven by heat that hurtle smoke as high as 10 miles into the sky like giant chimneys. When these smoke plumes reach the thin, calm air of the upper troposphere and lower...

David Liu, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator will be a co-recipient of the Harvey Prize in Science and Technology in Chemistry for his translation of scientific discoveries into...

A team of researchers at the Broad Institute, led by gene-editing pioneer David Liu, has developed a new genome-editing strategy that could potentially lead to a one-time treatment for multiple unrelated genetic diseases. Gene-editing medicines are often...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology’s most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an unprecedented window into this activity, an advance that has the...

You wouldn’t eat a new snack without a nutrition label on the package listing the ingredients, right? Haritosh Patel wants the same to be true for the air you breathe inside buildings. As an Aizenberg Lab member and Wyss Postdoctoral Fellow, he’s...

If anyone would want to do cardiac research at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), it’s Shivani Srikanth. As a child, Srikanth had a heart condition that required a pacemaker to be surgically implanted, and the procedure was done at BCH. Now a fourth-year...