Ragon Institute
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 […]
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 […]
Jun 3, 2021 Features
A recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, led by researchers Todd Allen, PhD, a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Group Leader at the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard, and Jim Riley, PhD, a professor of Microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, […]
Aug 31, 2020 Features
Researchers from the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania developed a new Dual CAR T cell immunotherapy that combats HIV infection in humanized mice. Image: HIV infecting a human cell, courtesy of NIH Image library A recent study published in the journal […]
May 16, 2019 Features
Five Traditional Healers from KwaZulu-Natal – who are central to an innovative program run in partnership with a local South African NGO and the KZN Department of Health – traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they were hosted for five days and honored for their work by the prestigious Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and […]
May 2, 2019 Features
T-cell targeting of essential amino acids may underlie spontaneous HIV suppression, define path to a vaccine CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Investigators at the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard have used a novel approach to identify specific amino acids in the protein structure of HIV that appear critical to the ability of the virus […]
Sep 17, 2018 Features
Ragon Institute initiative addresses socioeconomic factors affecting HIV risk in young women in South Africa A program established by investigators from the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), MIT and Harvard is addressing the persistently elevated risk of HIV infection among young women in South Africa from two angles – first, investigating biological factors […]
Jul 12, 2016 Features
On May 9th 2016, the first Rethinking Global Health workshop was held at the MIT Media Lab. This event, organized by the newly formed student organization MIT Cost-effective Healthcare Initiative, was attended by a diverse group of over 180 students, faculty members, physicians, NGO representatives and industry representatives. The goal of the workshop was […]
Jul 31, 2013 Features
On the evening of July 18, 2013, a benefit show was held in Boulder, Colorado to benefit the FRESH Study, an HIV prevention and education program in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The musical evening, held at Nissi’s, an award-winning restaurant and music venue, raised nearly $1,500 in support of FRESH! With this gift, FRESH will […]
Jun 24, 2013 Features
A new Ragon study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa is enrolling its sixth cohort of women this month in a longitudinal study in order to identify and analyze participants immediately after they are infected with HIV. Project staff is simultaneously providing job and life-skills training to the women in order to provide support to a community […]
Oct 12, 2012 Features
Ragon Institute Director Dr. Bruce Walker attended the event along with Massachusetts General Hospital President Dr. Peter Slavin , Senior VP for Research, Dr. Harry Orf, and Dr. Marylyn Addo, Director of International Programs for the Ragon Institute. On October 9, the new facility for the KwaZulu Natal Research Institute for TB and HIV (K-RITH) […]