News & Updates

Congratulations to Martha Bulyk and Bulyk Lab members Shubham Khetan and Brent Carroll, whose paper entitled “Multiple overlapping binding sites determine transcription factor occupancy” was published in Nature on September 3, 2025. A 10-min video highlighting their paper is available on the NHGRI Technology Development Coordinating Center’s YouTube channel: Video

Dear Colleagues, It is with deep sadness that we share the news of Dr. Richard Maas’ passing on August 15, 2025, at the age of 70, following complications from an extended illness. A Professor of Medicine, Dr. Maas served as Chief of the BWH Division of Genetics from 1999–2021, and

Dr. Martha Bulyk has been selected as a recipient of a 2025 Brigham & Women’s Hospital Education Award. This honor reflects the highest recognition from within BWH and celebrates her extraordinary contributions, as exemplified by the Education Award, honoring faculty educators who have made significant and lasting contributions to medical

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