Tag: Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator

  • Work & Economy

    With federal funds, Harvard helps drive local economy

    Harvard University uses its federal research funding to foster economic growth throughout the region.

    4 minutes
    Science lab with test tube.
  • Science & Tech

    ‘Any patient with any disease’

    Developed through Harvard’s Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator, an innovative immune-silent stem cell technology could lead to novel cell therapies to treat “any patient with any disease.”

    4 minutes
    Chad Cowen
  • Health

    A gift to turn medical discoveries into treatments

    A pledge for $200 million to Harvard Medical School will support translation of medical research into treatments and cures.

    6 minutes
  • Health

    Heading off the post-antibiotic age

    Antibiotic resistance has the potential to take millions of lives by 2050 if nothing is done to address the problem, Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institutes of Health’s Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at Harvard Business School.

    6 minutes
  • Health

    Tackling blood diseases, immune disorders

    Startup Magenta Therapeutics licenses technologies from Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Boston Children’s Hospital that could help transform treatment.

    7 minutes
  • Health

    The knotty problem of bringing regenerative medicine to market

    Leaders from the scientific and business world gathered at Harvard Business School on Oct. 6 to examine regenerative medicine’s scientific and commercial promise.

    5 minutes
  • Health

    Our blood, ourselves

    Two Harvard-trained researchers, who bonded while battling epidemics in West Africa, are developing diagnostic technology to help women monitor their own health and fertility.

    10 minutes
  • Health

    Collaboration to develop cancer therapeutics

    The Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator will collaborate with Merck to develop small-molecule therapy for the most common form of acute leukemia.

    3 minutes
  • Health

    A bridge for promising research

    Twelve advanced research projects aimed at developing new therapies and diagnostics receive support from Harvard’s Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator.

    6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    $50M gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation

    The Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, has donated $50 million to Harvard University. The gift will launch a major initiative to expedite the development of basic science discoveries into new breakthrough therapies for patients and cures for disease. The gift underpins Harvard’s growing commitment to creating an entrepreneurial culture in the…

    3 minutes