In Print
Photos by Graham Ramsay
From Focus:
Protein
Underlies Brain’s Response to Activity
Two independent teams of HMS researchers have identified a protein that plays
key roles in one of neurobiology’s biggest mysteries—how experience
shapes the brain. The discoveries could lead to a new understanding of psychiatric
and neurodegenerative diseases, said Azad Bonni who, with Aryaman Shalizi, Brice
Gaudillière, and colleagues, authored one of the papers. Steven Flavell,
Tae-Kyung Kim, and Michael Greenberg, who led the other team, believe that the
protein’s pathway could play a role in autism and other diseases of neurodevelopment.
Flavell (left) and Kim appear in the top photo, Shalizi (left) and Gaudillière
in the bottom photo.
Upcoming
Diversity Town Forum
March 8
12:30–2:00 p.m.
•
Vivian Pinn
National Institutes of Health
•
Evelynn Hammonds
Harvard University
•
Joan Reede
Harvard Medical School
Lab Works
A multimedia site featuring Harvard
Medical research.
|
|
Spotlight
Courtesy of the Countway Library of Medicine
Countway Presents Changing Face
of Medicine
“Changing the Face of Medicine,” a traveling exhibit that explores
the history of female physicians in the United States, will come to Countway
on March 13. Many HMS faculty members are part of the display, including
Mary Ellen Avery, the Thomas Morgan Rotch professor emeritus of pediatrics
at Children’s Hospital, shown above in 1974.
Student Scene
Photo by Graham Ramsay
Rotavirus Vaccine Runs Hurdles
to Catch Child Killer
Two vaccines against rotavirus, which kills more than a half million children
each year in the developing world, have overcome obstacles to gain approval
in certain countries, says Erica Seiguer. But whether they are shown to be effective
in poorer nations and are efficiently distributed there remains a question.
StudenTalk
Personal takes on issues inside and
outside the classroom.
|
