Hansjörg Wyss gives $125M to create institute
Engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65 has given Harvard University $125 million to create the Hansjörg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Investigators...
View ArticleScience programs advancing
Harvard President Drew Faust today renewed the University’s commitment to the vision of advancing interdisciplinary, collaborative science in general, and the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative...
View ArticleNew facilities for Wyss Institute
With an exhortation from its biggest backer to conduct research that ultimately will improve patient care, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering officially inaugurated two facilities...
View ArticleSqueezing life into patients
Engineers at Duke and Harvard universities have developed a “magnetic sponge” that after implantation into a patient can “squeeze” out drugs, cells, or other agents when passed over by a magnet. The...
View ArticleAIMBE inducts Ingber to College of Fellows
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced on Feb. 4 that its founding director, Donald E. Ingber, has been inducted into the American Institute for...
View ArticleLooking ahead
He’s an economist, a researcher, and a physician, and he’s about to become provost. On the day (April 15) that President Drew Faust announced that he would be Harvard’s next provost, Alan M. Garber ’76...
View ArticleA provost’s view across a decade
He ran the National Institute of Mental Health and then led Harvard’s expansion into interdisciplinary research during a 10-year tenure as provost. During his final days in office, Steven E. Hyman...
View ArticleWhat’s behind the predictably loopy gut
Between conception and birth, the human gut grows more than two meters long, looping and coiling within the tiny abdomen. Within a given species, the developing vertebrate gut always loops into the...
View ArticleA smarter Harvard marketplace
From creating micro-robots to designing a lung on a chip, Harvard researchers perform some of the most complicated and cutting-edge work in the world. But until recently, the process of procuring the...
View ArticleEarly excellence, rewarded
Two young Harvard scientists will each receive $2.54 million or more in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants that will support research and overhead costs through a new program intended to...
View ArticleWyss Institute project targets sepsis
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard has been awarded a $12.3 million, four-year grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a treatment...
View ArticleProgress in quantum computing
Engineers and physicists at Harvard have managed to capture light in tiny diamond pillars embedded in silver, releasing a stream of single photons at a controllable rate. The advance represents a...
View ArticleDonald Ingber wins 2011 Holst Medal
Donald Ingber, the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, has been awarded the 2011...
View ArticleLung-on-a-Chip wins prize
Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber received the NC3Rs 3Rs Prize from the U.K.’s National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement, and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) for his...
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Cancer vaccine begins Phase I clinical trials
A cross-disciplinary team of Harvard scientists, engineers, and clinicians announced today that they have begun a Phase I clinical trial of an implantable vaccine to treat melanoma, the most lethal...
View ArticleRoomy cages built from DNA
Move over, nanotechnologists, and make room for the biggest of the small. Scientists at the Harvard’s Wyss Institute have built a set of self-assembling DNA cages only one-tenth as wide as a...
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‘Heart disease-on-a-chip’
Harvard scientists have merged stem cell and “organ-on-a-chip” technologies to grow, for the first time, functioning human heart tissue carrying an inherited cardiovascular disease. The research...
View ArticleHansjörg Wyss gives $125M to create institute
Engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65 has given Harvard University $125 million to create the Hansjörg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering....
View ArticleScience programs advancing
Harvard President Drew Faust today renewed the University’s commitment to the vision of advancing interdisciplinary, collaborative science in general, and the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New facilities for Wyss Institute
With an exhortation from its biggest backer to conduct research that ultimately will improve patient care, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering officially inaugurated two...
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