HST MEMP Alumni Profile: Tim Padera
Fighting Cancer and Disease, One Lymph Node at a Time Timothy P. Padera, MEMP PhD, ‘03, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Tim Padera works to fight cancer and disease by focusing his research on a far-reaching system of the body—the lymphatic system. As part…
Read MoreSepsis-curing device wins new health care prize
Sepsis is a surprisingly common life-threatening illness in U.S. hospitals, contributing to as many as half of all deaths there, according to a 2014 study by the Journal of the American Medical Association. Around 250,000 Americans die each year from the condition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has…
Read MoreConfronting Zika
After its emergency meeting on Zika virus two weeks ago, WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan wrote in an official statement, “the Committee advised that the recent cluster of microcephaly cases and other neurological disorders reported in Brazil, following a similar cluster in French Polynesia in 2014, constitutes an ‘extraordinary event’…
Read MoreFaculty Profile: Daniel Anderson
Benefitting Generations Daniel Anderson agrees his research may sound like science fiction: smart biomaterials, cellular-level drug delivery, genome editing, cell transplantation, and RNA interference. In fact, this work could help counter serious illnesses from genetic cancers to type-1 diabetes, both for patients and their future family trees. Take, for example,…
Read MoreCuring disease by repairing faulty genes
New delivery method boosts efficiency of CRISPR genome-editing system. The genome-editing technique known as CRISPR allows scientists to clip a specific DNA sequence and replace it with a new one, offering the potential to cure diseases caused by defective genes. For this potential to be realized, however, scientists must find…
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