It’s spooky season! Halloween is here and the time has come for trick-or-treaters and kooky costumes. We want everyone to enjoy the fall festivities tonight and be safe doing it, so here are some tips for a ghoulishly good time from the Massachusetts General Hospital Public Affairs Office.
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Genetics & Genomics, Nephrology, Neurology, Rheumatology & Immunology | 0 comment | 24 October, 2019 | 0
The NIH New Innovator Award supports exceptionally creative early career investigators who propose innovative, high-impact projects.
The Center for Systems Biology investigates how the human body’s biological and physiological functions work together to impact health and disease.
New data from a Mass General researcher highlights a link between the immune system and the onset of eating disorders.
HIV & AIDS, Infectious Disease, MGH Research Scholars, Pediatrics, Rheumatology & Immunology | 0 comment | 1 October, 2019 | 0
To understand more about infant immunity and how to enhance it, a research team led by Galit Alter, PhD investigated how certain antibodies are transferred from mother to child during pregnancy.
For the first time, researchers successfully “supercooled” a human liver and returned it back to normal body temperatures without any ice injury. Using this supercooling preservation method, the research team, led by Reinier de Vries, MD, were able to triple the shelf-life of human livers from about nine hours to 27 hours.
Bragi Sveinsson, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow working in the Low-Field MRI and Hyperpolarized Media Laboratory, led by Matthew Rosen, PhD, at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.
Risa Burr, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow conducting cancer research in the Haber/Maheswaran laboratory at the Mass General Center for Cancer Research. She is focused on cell-to-cell communication between normal cells and cancer cells to learn more about how cancer is able to spread.
In recognition of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, we’re recognizing some of the talented postdoctoral researchers who make invaluable contributions to science and medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital every day.
Researchers across disciplines detailed their latest projects to improve our understanding and treatment of disorders of the brain.
