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Researchers at the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Quebec’s Laval University said they are on the verge of finding a vaccine for the inherited form of Lou Gehrig’s disease, a condition in which a mutated protein destroys a person’s capacity for muscle control. The work conducted by Robert H. Brown Jr., associate professor at HMS, and Jean-Pierre Julien, a research chair at Laval University, is part of a growing trend in the search for vaccines against genetic diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases. Instead...
...Sciences and joined the ranks of Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, and Toni Morrison. At the ceremony in Sanders Theater, the two-century-old organization honored 203 scientists, historians, artists, policy makers, and other leaders in public life. Harvard’s inductees included Associate Dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) Nancy C. Andrews, Professor of History David G. Blackbourn, Social Sciences Dean David M. Cutler ’87, Bernbaum Professor of English Literature Leo Damrosch, Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design Rem Koolhaas, Cabot Director of the University Art Museums Thomas W. Lentz, Beren Professor of Economics...
...days before a Harvard medical student was scheduled to take her certification exam, Massachusetts’ appeals court temporarily voided an earlier ruling that would have given her extra break time to pump breast milk. Sophie C. Currier, the MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School (HMS), who is currently nursing a five-month-old infant, will postpone taking the exam until the three-judge appeals panel rules, said her spokeswoman, Alex Zaroulis. Currier cannot graduate from HMS or begin her scheduled residency until she passes the eight-hour licensing exam. “Things...
Judge Gary S. Katzmann of the Massachusetts Appeals Court ordered the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) to grant the sought-for break time to Sophie C. Currier, an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School (HMS) currently nursing a five-month-old infant...
Like all physicians, Currier cannot graduate from HMS or begin her scheduled residency until she passes the licensing exam...