Department of Molecular Biology

Department of Molecular Biology

Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital
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Our Faculty
Luke
Chao

    • Research areas
    Biophysics & structural biology
    Cell dynamics
    Mitochondria
    Margarete
    Diaz Cuadros

    • Research areas
    Developmental mechanisms
    Metabolism
    Jonathan
    Green

    • Research areas
    Neurobiology & behavior
    Konrad
    Hochedlinger

    • Research areas
    Developmental mechanisms
    Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology
    Deborah
    Hung

    • Research areas
    Chemical biology
    Infectious disease & immunity
    Joshua
    Kaplan

    • Research areas
    Neurobiology & behavior
    Robert
    Kingston

    • Research areas
    Biophysics & structural biology
    Developmental mechanisms
    Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology
    Non-coding RNAs
    Jeannie
    Lee

    • Research areas
    Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
    Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology
    Non-coding RNAs
    Rare Diseases
    Vamsi
    Mootha

    • Research areas
    Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
    Biophysics & structural biology
    Genetics & population genetics
    Metabolism
    Mitochondria
    Rare Diseases
    Marjorie
    Oettinger
    Lauren
    Orefice

    • Research areas
    Neurobiology & behavior
    Gary
    Ruvkun

    • Research areas
    Non-coding RNAs
    Origins of life & astrobiology
    Ruslan
    Sadreyev

    • Research areas
    Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
    Jen
    Sheen

    • Research areas
    Cell signaling
    Plant physiology
    Jonathan
    Strecker

    • Research areas
    CRISPR-Cas systems
    Radhika
    Subramanian

    • Research areas
    Biophysics & structural biology
    Cell dynamics
    Samuel
    Wattrus

    • Research areas
    Developmental mechanisms
    Ramnik
    Xavier

    • Research areas
    Cell signaling
    Infectious disease & immunity

    Latest News
    Congratulations to Melissa Walker, MD, PhD, for the Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award from the MGH Executive Committee on Research.

    Melissa was selected for her proposal "T Cell Senescence, Inflammation as Targetable Features of Genetic Mitochondrial DNA Diseases."

    Congratulations to Gary Ruvkun for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, awarded for his co-discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

    MGH and Harvard Medical School investigator Gary Ruvkun, PhD, has been named a recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. He shares the award with his collaborator Victor Ambros, PhD, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

    Over the past two decades, research into the potential of microRNAs for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease has expanded from the two original papers published by Ruvkun and Ambros in 1993 to 176,000 papers today.

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    Transitions in development — an interview with Margarete Diaz Cuadros

    The Company of Biologists spoke to Margarete over Teams to learn more about her transition to becoming a group leader and her philosophy for creating a positive lab environment.

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