Department of Molecular Biology

Department of Molecular Biology

Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital
Upcoming Events

Events are generally limited to MGB personnel and their academic colleagues, and particularly those from our sister institutions in the greater Boston area

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  • 2025
Dr. Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc (hon) FAAP FASTMH, Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, Co-Director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development:

Annual Professor Dulcie V. Coleman Lecture: Global Vaccines and Immunizations: in a time of antiscience, antivaccination, climate change and megacities

  • Dec
  • 12
  • 2025
Chenhao Li, PhD, Xavier Lab:

Urbanized Gut

  • Dec
  • 12
  • 2025
Jenn Cohen, PhD, Ruvkun Lab:

Lysosome related organelles transmit an innate immune signal by interacting with mitochondria

  • Dec
  • 16
  • 2025
Annette Lischka, Ph.D:

Human Cellular Modeling Working Group: Choroid Plexus Organoids in Schizophrenia

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Congratulations to Melissa Walker, MD, PhD, for the Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award from the MGH Executive Committee on Research.

Melissa was selected for her proposal “T Cell Senescence, Inflammation as Targetable Features of Genetic Mitochondrial DNA Diseases.”

Congratulations to Gary Ruvkun for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, awarded for his co-discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

MGH and Harvard Medical School investigator Gary Ruvkun, PhD, has been named a recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. He shares the award with his collaborator Victor Ambros, PhD, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. 

Over the past two decades, research into the potential of microRNAs for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease has expanded from the two original papers published by Ruvkun and Ambros in 1993 to 176,000 papers today. 

Nobel Ceremony Video 
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Transitions in development — an interview with Margarete Diaz Cuadros

The Company of Biologists spoke to Margarete over Teams to learn more about her transition to becoming a group leader and her philosophy for creating a positive lab environment. 

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