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REITHERA SRL, THE RAGON INSTITUTE AND IAVI ANNOUNCE COLLABORATION TO ADVANCE HIGHLY NETWORKED T CELL HIV VACCINE CANDIDATE TOWARDS PHASE I CLINICAL EVALUATION

Feb 5, 2024 Features

Novel HIV vaccine candidate based on Gorilla adenoviral vector (GRAd-HIV) funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to alleviate the disease burden and improve the lives of the millions who lack access to prevention options ReiThera Srl, the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard, and IAVI are pleased to announce a collaboration […]

Thumbi Ndung’u Honored with Chan School, Retrovirology Awards

Oct 27, 2023 Features

Both awards recognized his lifelong commitment to HIV research and his leadership in this field on the African continent Ragon associate member Thumbi Ndung’u, PhD, was recently awarded the 2023 Leadership Award in Public Health Practice by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as well as the K.T. Jeang Retrovirology Prize from a […]

An Interview with Sophia Liu, the Newest Member of the Ragon Faculty

Sep 1, 2023 Features

With the launch of the Liu Lab today, the Ragon welcomes its newest Early Independence Fellow — Sophia Liu, PhD, and her team will spend the next five years building tools to study cell interactions in order to further our understanding of, and find ways to improve, the human immune system. The Institute is honored […]

The Giuliani Foundation Pledges Gift to Establish Endowed Faculty Support Fund

Aug 8, 2023 Features

The Ragon Institute is thrilled to announce the receipt of a generous gift from the Giuliani Foundation to establish the Giammaria and Sabrina Giuliani Endowed Faculty Support Fund — a permanent endowment that will support Ragon faculty who are pursuing research in human health and the immune system. The Giulianis’ exceptional contribution will fuel our […]

Hernandez Moura Silva Named HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

May 9, 2023 Features

Curiosity and community lie at the heart of this immunologist’s work. Ragon Institute faculty core member Hernandez Moura Silva has been named a Freeman Hrabowski Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The new program supports early career scientists who are committed to creating diverse and inclusive lab environments for their students and training […]

A Shared Passion for HIV Cure Research

Apr 19, 2023 Features

amfAR grantees Drs. Xu Yu and Mathias Lichterfeld discuss their differing approaches to curing HIV With a shared passion for science, this husband-wife team—he from Germany, she from China—are a prolific couple in the field of HIV cure research, regularly publishing in leading peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Xu Yu is an Associate Professor of Medicine at […]

Researchers uncover how HIV reservoir cells resist elimination by human immune responses

Jan 4, 2023 Features

Media Contacts: Emily Makowski, 617-468-8970, [email protected] Serena Bronda, 857-869-7828, [email protected] Key Takeaways Researchers used a new single-cell proteogenomic profiling technique, PheP-Seq, to characterize surface markers of HIV reservoir cells from blood and lymph node samples from persons living with HIV They found specific biomarkers in these cells associated with resistance to elimination by human immune […]

Researchers reveal how long-term antiretroviral therapy shapes viral reservoirs in HIV-positive individuals

Jan 2, 2023 Features

Media Contacts: Emily Makowski, 617-468-8970, [email protected] Serena Bronda, 857-869-7828, [email protected] Key Takeaways Researchers conducted a longitudinal analysis of HIV-1 reservoirs in people who have been on ART for approximately two decades. The findings suggest that long-term ART causes the immune system to select for latent HIV reservoirs that are in integrated in “block and lock” […]

Ragon Institute Women Make a Difference: Amy Barczak

Mar 18, 2022 Features

Amy Barczak, MD, has been a physician-scientist at the Ragon Institute since 2015, where she is both a Faculty Member and the Director of the Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory for Special Pathogens. Barczak’s lab investigates at the cellular level the fundamental interactions between TB pathogens and the human immune system that could lead to breakthroughs […]

When Good T cells Go Bad

Sep 8, 2021 Features

Ragon researchers find impaired T cells precede loss of HIV control. HIV is a master of evading the immune system, using a variety of methods to prevent the body from being able to find and kill it. The vast majority of people living with HIV require daily medication to suppress the virus and therefore prevent […]