Tag: David A. Edwards

  • Nation & World

    Entrance, stage left

    Julie Peters, the inaugural Byron and Anita Wien Professor, focuses on artistic cultural history, as well as the literary works themselves.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Arts at center stage

    While Harvard the institution is picking up the pace on supporting the arts, Harvard the students — as ever — are busy making the arts their “irreplaceable instruments of knowledge.”

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Inhaled tuberculosis vaccine may be more effective than injected vaccine

    A novel aerosol version of the most common tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, administered directly to the lungs as an oral mist, offers significantly better protection against the disease in experimental animals…

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Newsmakers

    Edwards honored by Michigan Tech Michigan Technological University has named David A. Edwards — a 1983 graduate of the university and the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard — the winner of its Melvin Calvin Medal of Distinction. The medal recognizes individuals with an affiliation with the university who have…

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Students develop system to fight TB

    A new system developed by Harvard undergraduates delivers anti-tuberculosis drugs through an inhaler, increasing the likelihood that patients will take them over longer periods, and reducing the side effects of…

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