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CCB Hosts G35 Alumni

October 14, 2026

CCB hosted the G35 cohort - PhD alums who entered Harvard CCB in 1991 - on October 3, 2026. This particular cohort has a reunion every 5 years and tries to stay in touch with CCB leadership and current graduate students. During their visit, they got to...

New research: How to build an evolutionary trap for viruses

October 13, 2026

When a virus mutates, the world usually finds out the hard way. Variants of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can slip past vaccines and antibody drugs before scientists fully understand what has changed. A new study from the Department of Chemistry and Chemical...

Profile: First rule of a disease fighter: Be curious

May 29, 2026

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...

New research: Unlocking hidden pocket on a billion‑dollar drug target

April 17, 2026

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...

New research: How a COVID-era trick may transform drug, chemical discovery

January 21, 2026

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...

New research: Health Shining a light on the dark matter of our genome

November 17, 2025

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...

CCB Student Profile: A Scientist and a Survivor

September 04, 2025

Patryk Kozlowski was finishing his fall exams as a junior at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) when he learned he had leukemia. A young athlete and a burgeoning scientist, Kozlowski was stunned. Only weeks later, though, he faced even...

Brandon Campbell (Nocera Lab) pitches in Harvard Horizons talks

April 23, 2025

At Harvard, thousands of scholars are working to advance knowledge on a wide array of topics. Eight students are selected each year to workshop ways to bring that knowledge from the University to the wider world through Harvard Horizons. Now in its 12th...

Vaibhav Mohanty wins DBIO Early Career Prize Session, First Place

April 14, 2025

Vaibhav Mohanty ( Shakhnovich Lab) has placed first among graduate students in the American Physical Society's Division of Biological Physics (DBIO) Early Career Prize Session. Mohanty's talk, “Principles of Biophysical Fitness Landscape Design ” had been...

Patryk Kozlowski named 2025 PD Soros Fellow

April 10, 2025

On Wednesday, April 9, CCB graduate student Patryk Kozlowski was named a 2025 PD Soros Fellow by the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. The 2025 Class of Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows is made up of 30 outstanding immigrants and children of...

CCB Students Receive 2025 NSF Fellowships

April 09, 2025

We are happy to announce that four current CCB graduate students have just been awarded National Science Foundation fellowships. Winners include: Miriam Aziz – G1 Mason Lab Elena Chen – G1 Mason Lab Congratulations all!

Jesse Gordon (Nocera Lab) is selected as a Sustainable Futures Initiative Grant Program Winner

March 24, 2025

Jesse Gordon (Nocera Lab) has won an Early Career Postdoctoral (ECP) Faculty Bridge Grant from the 2024 Sustainable Futures Initiative Grant Program. Gordon's Project Title: Sustainable Strategies for Radical Amination Catalysis “Equally important to my...