Tag: Ragon Institute of MGH

  • Nation & World

    Global race to a COVID-19 vaccine

    Team at Harvard plans to launch a clinical trial for a potential COVID-19 vaccine in the fall.

    7 minutes
    Ofer Levy an David Dowling.
  • Nation & World

    ‘Faster protection with less material’

    Further research and development on a class of molecules called bisphosphonates might turbocharge a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, and help bring immunity to huge populations more quickly.

    13 minutes
    Professor Uli von Andrian.
  • Nation & World

    One vaccine for two strains?

    Harvard Medical School researchers believe that identifying the properties of the herpes viruses found in Africa could open the door to developing a more potent vaccine against an infection now rampant in sub-Saharan Africa.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Protein that helps battle HIV

    Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard find that elevated levels of p21, a protein best known as a cancer fighter, may be involved in the immune system’s ability to control HIV infection.

    4 minutes