News & Updates

Martha Bulyk, Ph.D., was named the inaugural Louis and Elizabeth Maas Endowed Chair in Genomic Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, enabled through the generosity of Dr. Richard Maas, MD, PhD, and his family in recognition of the critical role of genomic research in uncovering the genetic causes of disease and developing diagnostics and precision therapies.

Link: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/07/learning-without-a-net/ ‘Learning without a net’ Here are 5 students doing summer research with faculty in topics from heat mortality to epigenetics, Legionnaires’ disease to anorexia

Regeneron Announces the 2025 Winners of the Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation. The Regeneron Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding creativity and talent among early-career scientists in biomedical research. Sreekar Mantena is currently in the lab of Professor Soumya Raychaudhuri at Brigham and Women’s Hospital applying single-cell genomics approaches to study the adaptive immune

Congratulations to Dr. Rich Sherwood on his recent and well-deserved promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard. Rich and his lab have pioneered the development and application of gene editing approaches to uncover new features of gene regulation and molecular mechanisms of disease.

Congratulations to Karen Cichowski, Professor of Medicine in the Genetics Division at BWH, on her paper published in Nature entitled “AKT and EZH2 inhibitors kill TNBCs by hijacking mechanisms of involution” A Research Brief on the study is now posted to the BWH newsroom: Article

Congratulations to our MGB colleague Gary Ruvkun and UMass professor Victor Ambros on receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine today for their ground-breaking work on the discovery of microRNAs! MGB Press Release