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We are excited to announce the promotion of Zaza Ndhlovu, PhD, to Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The Ndhlovu Lab has been invaluable to advancing the field of viral immunology and developing our understanding of HIV. Congratulations, Dr. Ndhlovu!

For people with #Type1Diabetes, developing hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, is an ever-present threat. A new implant developed by @MIT researchers carries a reservoir of glucagon that can be stored under the skin and deployed during an emergency: bit.ly/4lS2wpp

. @theNASciences has elected 150 new members, which is one of the highest honors a scientist can receive in their career. 🥂 Congratulations to Dr. Yukiko Yamashita (@yamashitaflylab) from @WhiteheadInst & @MITBiology on this incredible accomplishment! bit.ly/457j339

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PhD student Claire Shamber has been awarded an @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to fund her research redefining the mammalian metabolome and investigating metabolic adaptations in mammalian disease states: direc.to/n9Tp #NSFfunded #NSFGRFP #PhDTwitter @ProgMolMed

Meet the chemist who’s reimagining how we build molecules, one tiny tweak at a time. Alison Wendlandt is pioneering new ways to control chemical reactions, unlocking breakthroughs in medicine, materials, and more. news.mit.edu/2025/chemist-w…

Researchers at @MIT, @ragoninstitute, and the @broadinstitute have developed a new deep learning AI tool called CellLENS. CellLENS reveals hidden patterns in cell behavior within tissues, offering insights into cell heterogeneity: bit.ly/4m1Oq52 #CancerImmunotherapy

New work from the lab of Dr. Vijay Sankaran shows how insights from human genetic variation can uncover critical regulatory processes required for effective developmental gene expression. 👇

💉 Cancer vaccine news from @DanaFarber! Drs. Patrick Ott & Catherine Wu designed a novel formulation and delivery for the NeoVax personalized #CancerVaccine and observed strong vaccine-specific immune responses. 📰 bit.ly/4eTgtRu @CellCellPress bit.ly/4nU0KFU

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Drs. Dorothy Schafer and Travis Thomson at @UMassChan are sharing an award of $50,000 to support groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research in #neuroscience. 🥳 Their project will investigate a novel liver-brain axis driven by extracellular vesicles: bit.ly/44H6yKd

Read Pukkila-Worley, MD, is the new director of the MD/PhD program: direc.to/n8PN Dr. Pukkila-Worley has mentored dozens of MD/PhD graduate students since joining @UMassChan in 2014. The @RPWLab studies host-pathogen interactions and bacterial pathogenesis. @UMassMDPhD

Please join @PTarantinoMD to learn about updates on treatment and research for metastatic breast cancer from the 2025 @ASCO Conference. For more information and to register, please visit bit.ly/4lprw7N.

Researchers at @BU_Tweets have discovered that exosomes released into the blood by different organs and tissues in obese, insulin-resistant models, carry signals that turn slow-moving #TNBC cells into mobile, invasive cells. 🗞️ bit.ly/3Ir8xuO 📝 bit.ly/4kAPECY

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MIT scientists have discovered compounds that help your own cells fight off viruses like Zika, RSV, and herpes by supercharging a natural defense system. news.mit.edu/2025/scientist…

Huge congrats to Zack Murphy, selected as a 2025 Fujifilm Fellow at @harvardmed !! 🎉 The Fujifilm Fellowship Program fully funds PhD students doing groundbreaking work in the life sciences! Look out for big things ahead from Zack!

The Hrvatin (@hrvatin_sinisa) lab (@WhiteheadInst) have developed a way to induce stasis in animals that don't normally experience it. 😴 Their work shows that #stasis slows down the accumulation of markers that bind to DNA and are associated with age: bit.ly/3IlV5IJ

🚨 New Fellowship Alert! The @MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative is launching the Biswas Postdoctoral Fellowship Program to advance the work of outstanding early-career researchers in health and life sciences. Learn more: bit.ly/3Ttmlr0

🎉New article from the @ScaddenLab in @Cell_Metabolism: Disrupting ELMSAN1–nPDC reactivates nuclear acetyl-CoA, rewires cancer epigenetics, and halts tumor growth. A promising strategy for cancer therapy. Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet… #MGB #HSCRB