Tag: high risk

  • Nation & World

    Aramont Fellowships spotlight and support pathbreaking initiatives

    Aramont Fellows’ research seeks solutions to Chagas disease transmission, preterm births, and head and neck cancers.

    7 minutes
    Science image.
  • Nation & World

    Wanted: Bold ideas

    The Star-Friedman Challenge for Scientific Research is ready to provide seed funding for high-risk, high-impact work in the life, physical, and social sciences. Harvard researchers have until March 1 to apply for the funding.

    5 minutes
    Creative rendition of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles
  • Nation & World

    NIH makes $8.5M investment in promising projects

    Eight Harvard scientists will receive nearly $8.5 million in funding through the National Institutes of Health’s High Risk, High Reward program to support research.

    10 minutes
    Science image to announce seven faculty receiving NIH grants totalling nearly $8.5 million.
  • Nation & World

    Funding the future

    The Star Family Challenge makes grants every year to high-risk, high-reward research efforts that might not receive funding through other programs. This year’s recipients are Edo Berger, Katia Bertoldi, Edward Glaeser, Talia Konkle, and Bence Ölveczky.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Reproductive strategies

    When compared with a solitary strategy of producing offspring who then go on to produce their own offspring, a new Harvard study has found that eusociality is a high-risk, high-reward gamble.

    4 minutes