Faculty

In the race to build a biomanufacturing economy, one of the most stubborn obstacles is surprisingly mundane: getting enough gas into a tank of liquid. From pharmaceuticals to alternative proteins, many technologies depend on microbes that need to breathe...

Brian Liau, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been awarded the 2027 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award For Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry. The winners will each receive an award certificate, a monetary award of US $5,000, and an...

Emily Balskus, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has recieved the 2026 Ono Pharma Foundation Breakthrough Science Initiative Award. Her project is entitled "Developing chemical probes to...

Chemical biologist Greg Verdine was driving from his North Shore home to his office in Cambridge when he had to pull over to the side of the road. Verdine was listening to the podcast “Interesting Times with Ross Douthat.” The guest was former U.S. Sen...

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) is pleased to announce that awards have been made to five projects from the Harvard University Genomic Medicines Fund. The fund is intended to support of research involving genome editing that is useful...

Xiaowei Zhuang, David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been named the recipient of the 2026 Dickson Prize in Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s highest...

It was DNA replication that first captured Isaac Witte’s scientific imagination as a high school student in Overland Park, Kansas. “It’s this orchestration of so many different proteins and molecules that come together to do this core element of life,” he...

Throughout the history of biology, numerous discoveries stemmed from observing living systems, but seeing the innerworkings of living organisms presents challenges. Xiaowei Zhuang, David B. Arnold Professor of Science, has spent her career developing...

Professor Eric Jacobsen, Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry, has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research named for one of the most honored faculty members in Texas A&M University history. The...

For years, a protein inside our cells has quietly powered billions of dollars’ worth of cancer drugs. Now a team of researchers have discovered that this workhorse protein, called cereblon, in addition to its known functions, can also fine‑tune which...