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Brigham and Women’s Hospital—a major teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School??announced yesterday a partnership in research that will investigate the genetic origin of serious diseases in women. The hospital will team up with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a branch of the National Institute of Health (NIH), and Amgen, a Fortune 500 human therapeutics company, on the Women’s Genome Health Study. Over the past decade, 28,000 initially healthy American women have been monitored. Genetic samples from each of the women will undergo a comprehensive...
Watson also teaches an Extension School course, “Principles of Finance,” this fall, and he is scheduled to teach the Extension School??s equivalent of Social Analysis 10 this spring...
...Harvard expands its presence to the other side of the Charles River, it’s scaling back its investment on the other side of the globe. The Harvard Management Company (HMC), which steers the school??s $29.2 billion endowment, has sold a minority stake in its 468,000 acre Kaingaroa forest in New Zealand. The buyer is a fund established by the country’s national government to provide for its aging population. The New Zealand Superannuation Fund will acquire a stake of approximately $200 million from HMC, which has owned the forest estate since December...
Last spring, Polaroid donated decades of company archives to the Harvard Business School??s Baker Library. A special library-moving company hauled 4,000 linear feet (that’s about three-quarters of a mile) of documents, photos, cameras, and sunglasses from Waltham, Mass., to their new home in the newly renovated library, says Tim Mahoney, manuscripts librarian at the Baker Library...
...have committed themselves to “high public health standards among vulnerable populations,” according to a statement from the school. “[Foege and Fauci] have probably changed the world between them as much as anyone in public health,” said the school??s dean, Barry R. Bloom. Foege is a former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and a founding member of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, a nonprofit group based in Atlanta, Ga. At the CDC, he devised the concept...