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🏆 @MassGenBrigham has named @ragoninstitute's Dr. Gaurav Gaiha as the 2026 Giammaria and Sabrina Giuliani MGB Research Scholar!
This award recognizes work that represents the very best of innovation, rigor, and promise across the MGB research community: bit.ly/4fJgPNm
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How do brains integrate sensory evidence over minutes to generate adaptive behaviors? A new Flavell lab preprint identifies C. elegans circuits that integrate aversive smells during foraging to control specific behavioral responses. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #neuroscience
ALT A grayscale image shows a worm slithering from the upper right to the bottom left. It's head crosses a faint line labeled "copper boundary."
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Dr. David Chou’s work at the @wyssinstitute is literally out of this world! 🚀
In addition to identifying radiation countermeasures, he is part of the AVATAR project, which aims to understand how humans respond to the health risks inherent to spaceflight: bit.ly/443Hehv
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Researchers at @harvardmed have made colon-on-a-chip devices more useful for the study of inflammatory bowel disease (#IBD), reproducing several aspects of the disease that have been missing in other models!
🥼 Abstract: go.nature.com/4vavt4x
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New research could have far-reaching implications for understanding #BrainPlasticity and maturation, including how early-life stress affects the brain.
See the work from @harvardmed & @BostonChildrens. 👇
Abstract: go.nature.com/4e6UMgS
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Different tissues in humans and three other mammalian species share common #GeneExpression changes as they age, a team led by @harvardmed investigators has discovered.
🧬 Learn more about their publication in Nature: bit.ly/4enpnbk
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Congratulations to Gaurav Gaiha, MD, DPhil, who has been named an inaugural 2026 MGB Research Scholar! For the next five years, he will hold the title of the Giammaria and Sabrina Giuliani MGB Research Scholar.
Read more: ragoninstitute.org/2026/06/g…
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Congratulations to three students who have earned MIT HEALS Graduate Fellowships! Jessie Xiao (studying alpha synuclein in Parkinson's disease), Evan Ruesch (developing tools for optical physiology), & Emma Ibanez (studying sensory neurons in reproductive system). #neuroscience
ALT Jessie Xiao, Evan Ruesch and Emma Ibanez smile as they stand along a railing in MIT's Building 46.
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“Immunotherapies are possible today only because thousands of scientists, for more than 40 years, followed their curiosity to probe the immune system’s deep processes.
Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.” — MIT President Sally Kornbluth statnews.com/2026/05/27/scie…
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👇👇 Check out this terrific thread on our recent work from @CohnOfir! We would welcome any feedback!
Decades of research have revealed the intricacies of how dendritic cells (DCs) function, but fundamental questions remain about how this group of cells develops in humans and how this process goes awry in disease. A thread on our new work! (1/9)
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🥳 Dr. Facundo Batista, Scientific and Associate Director of the @ragoninstitute, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Dr. Batista leads a research program focused on understanding how the immune system generates protective antibodies: bit.ly/3PIXOA2
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Research by Lakshmi Nayak, MD, and Caron Jacobson, MD, MMSc, helped advance a major milestone in relapsed/refractory primary CNS lymphoma: an @US_FDA label update for axicabtagene ciloleucel, the first CAR T-cell therapy for this disease. Learn more about the science behind this milestone: bit.ly/4vdDy8H
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Dr. Myriam Heiman, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Neuroscience, will become the Director of @MIT_Picower, effective July 1, 2026. She succeeds Dr. Li-Huei Tsai who is stepping down after leading the Institute for 16 years.
Congrats Dr. Heiman! bit.ly/4u6yPVf
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#GeneEditing can repair a DNA error in mice that causes #DravetSyndrome, a rare, incurable, and potentially deadly form of childhood epilepsy.
See the findings from researchers at the @broadinstitute. 👇
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So great to see @MassGenBrigham researcher Jessica Lin, MD, presenting on an experimental lung cancer therapy in patients with ALK-positive, non-small cell lung cancer at #ASCO2026!
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Dr. Phillip Tai at @UMassChan has received a $1.6 million grant from NIGMS to investigate the basic mechanisms of adeno-associated viral vectors (#AAV) using high-resolution DNA sequencing technology.
Congrats Dr. Tai! bit.ly/4u6Du9z
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Congratulations to Facundo Batista, Scientific and Associate Director of the Ragon, on his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society — the UK's national academy of sciences, founded in 1660, whose Fellows have included Newton, Darwin, and Einstein.
ragoninstitute.org/2026/05/r…
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Dr. Vijay Sankaran (@bloodgenes) from @harvardmed and @HHMINEWS is on the @stemcellpodcast!
🎧 Listen now to learn how his lab uses human genetics and stem cell biology to uncover mechanisms regulating #hematopoiesis and blood disease: bit.ly/49rS6Jo
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