Announcements

• The Harvard MD-PhD Program is proud to announce that 17 men and 6 women received their MD degrees on Thursday, June 6, 2009, and will begin their postgraduate year one in July with MD-PhD degrees in hand. Click here for list of the Harvard MD-PhD Class of 2009.    2009 Class Book
• Members of the MD-PhD Graduating Class of 2009 celebrated the Match Day Results on March 19, 2009.
• Dr. Michael Brown delivered the 3rd Annual Leaders in Biomedicine Lecture
• MD-PhD student Vijay G. Sankaran’s graduate research is featured in the December 19th issue of the journal Science.
• The HMS MD/PhD Program held their 26th annual retreat in Waterville Valley, NH from October 17-19., 2008
• NEW RESOURCE/ MD-PhD Training and Career Guide
• 15 New Students Start First Year in MD-PhD Program in 2008
• Congratulations to the 2008 Graduates!
• MD-PhD Student Ganesh Shankar's worked closely with Dennis Selkoe, Shaomin Li, and Bernardo Sabatini to isolate and characterize the forms of Abeta in the human brain. His research appeared in Nature Medicine, Nat Med. 2008 Aug;14(8):837-42 and was featured in HMS FOCUS.
• MD-PhD Student Hannah H. Chang's graduate research appears in Nature paper and Harvard Medical School Focus article. Her studies revealed that dynamic variability of gene expression patterns appears to influence cell fate decisions in mammalian cells.
• Congratulations to Sarah Hill, who has been awarded a predoctoral traineeship award from the Department of Defense (DOD) Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) of the Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP). Sarah's award will be used for graduate study in the laboratory of Dr. David Livingston to study "BRCA1 Pathway Functionality in Basal-Like Breast Cancer". The DOD cited their belief that Sarah's project will add significantly to the understanding of breast cancer.
• Srini Viswanathan, an MD/PhD student in the lab of George Q. Daley (HMS MD/PhD, '91), recently identified a protein that may be inhibiting the processing of small RNAs in embryonic stem cells and certain cancers.
• Robert Koffie Awarded 2008 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
• Meet the Investigators 2008 Discussion Series
• MD–PhD Program Marks 25th Retreat
• 12 New Students Start First Year in MD-PhD Program in 2007
• Irene Chen Wins Grand Prize for the GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists.

Updated: June 24, 2009