Tag: Stephen Elledge

  • 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

    Learning from recovery

    Using the tool VirScan, researchers are able to detect antibodies in people’s blood that indicate active and past infections by viruses and bacteria. The goal is to learn how the virus affects the immune system.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Geneticist Stephen J. Elledge wins Breakthrough Prize

    Harvard Medical School geneticist Stephen Elledge won the 2017 Breakthrough Prize for unraveling the mechanism by which cells sense DNA damage and initiate self-repair.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New hope for the cure

    For the 20 percent of patients with so-called triple-negative breast cancer, the outcome is bleak. Now, however, researchers from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Baylor College of Medicine have identified a critical molecular component to the disease, one that suggests potential therapies involving combinations of FDA-approved, readily available drugs.

    4 minutes