Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
BOSTON, MA--Seeking to accelerate the pace of research into the molecular mechanisms that govern aging, philanthropist Paul F. Glenn, an alumnus of Harvard Law School and founder of the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research in Santa Barbara, California, has committed $5 million to Harvard Medical School over five years to launch the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Biological Mechanisms of Agin...Three Harvard Medical School endowed chairs named simultaneously in sleep medicine
Boston, MA - May 11, 2004 - Harvard Medical School (HMS) is taking steps to dramatically advance the field of Sleep Medicine through the simultaneous establishment of three endowed chairs all devoted to this emerging critical field of medicine. ......Joseph B. Martin, Dean of HMS, hailed today's announcement as an historic moment for the school and in the evolution of the field of Sleep Medicine....Civil rights campaign issues at Harvard
...Reflection in Action: Building Healthy Communities ...This day dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement includes a keynote address by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, HMS faculty presentations about their extensive experiences in the Movement, a panel discussion about current civil rights, social justice, and health disparities issues, performances by young people from the community, and an award pr...NYU Child Study Center to honor Larry Summers, President of Harvard and Ann Tenenbaum and Tom Lee
On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, The NYU Child Study Center will host its sixth annual dinner at the Regent Wall Street. Chaired by Beth and Michael Fascitelli, this year's dinner, "Giving Children Back Their Childhood," will celebrate the remarkable advances researchers from the Child Study Center have made in the field of mental health which, in turn, will help children suffering with mental di...Harvard chemist wins national award for creating new molecules
. Chemist Eric N. Jacobsen of Boston will be honored April 3 by the world's largest scientific society for his achievements in developing ways to tailor-make molecules useful in the pharmaceutical industry. He will receive the 2001 Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society at its national meeting in San Diego.. . When it comes to making molecules,...Harvard Medical School new digital library to feature MD Consult full text medical resources
.Boston, MA and St. Louis, MO, September 25, 2000 - In one of the nation's largest online clinical information initiatives sponsored by a medical institution, Harvard Medical School announced today that it will launch a pilot project called the Digital Library featuring MD Consult's comprehensive full text medical resources. . .The Digital Library will provide more than 18,000 affiliate physicia...Harvard researcher receives national award
. . . Washington D.C>, August 15 -- Chemist David A. Evans of Concord, Mass., will be honored on August 22 by the world's largest scientific society for developing strategies for making potential drugs derived from nature. He will receive the 2000 Arthur C. Cope Award from the American Chemical Society at its 220th national meeting, in Washington, D.C.. . "I'm in the design and construction b...Harvard Med. School report warns of world health threat
.New York---October 28, 1999-- Deadly strains of drug resistant tuberculosis are spreading rapidly and threaten to spiral out of control, according to "The Global Impact of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis", a report released today by Harvard Medical School's Program on Infectious Disease and Social Change and the Open Society Institute. The World Health Organization first sounded the TB alarm six ye...UCSF-Harvard Team Reports Encouraging Results In Drug Study Of Mice With Cancer
.Researchers report that four drugs thought to disrupt the formation of blood.vessels that fuel tumor growth have been shown for the first time to be.effective at treating spontaneous tumors at distinct stages of progression in.mice.. .The study, reported in the April 30 issue of Science, provides evidence that.these drugs, so-called angiogenesis inhibitors, can act against tumors in a.mouse mod...