Tag: Rachel Wilson

  • Campus & Community

    $9 million donation earmarked for cannabis research

    Alumnus gives $9 million in largest donation to date to support independent research on the science of cannabinoids at Harvard and MIT. “Our desire is to fill the research void that currently exists in the science of cannabis,” said donor Charles R. “Bob” Broderick.

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  • Science & Tech

    Five at Harvard named HHMI Early Career Scientists;

    Five Harvard scientists are among 50 young scientists  nationwide who will have their work supported for the next six years by a new initiative from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). HHMI today announced that the selected scientists are at 33 institutions across the United States and have led their own laboratories for two to…

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  • Science & Tech

    Three Harvard faculty members net MacArthur fellowships

    Three biologists — one current and two future faculty members at Harvard — have won MacArthur Foundation “genius” grants, $500,000 no-strings-attached awards intended to encourage creativity, originality, and innovation in a broad array of fields. The winners are Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Rachel Wilson at Harvard Medical School,  Susan Mango, now at the University of…

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