Ragon Institute Halloween Celebration
Nov 15, 2022 Ragon Culture
The Culture Committee and Ragon Crafters hosted a very festive event in our Tea Room for Halloween, with candy, cake, costumes, and small pumpkins to paint.
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Thank You, Clinical Team Members!
Jun 6, 2022 Ragon Culture
May 26 was a sad but exciting day for the Ragon as the Clinical Team said goodbye to four of its team members, who are moving on to their next stages of training. All four will be pursuing further degrees in either science or medicine. Max Barbash worked on mucosal immunology and lymphoid studies at […]
PRISM Week 8 is a Wrap!
May 3, 2022 Ragon Culture
Last Saturday, April 30, was the eighth week of this year’s PRISM Science Club. High school students learned about the importance of diagnostic tools and used gel electrophoresis kits from miniPCR bio to test for a fictional virus. Ragon Institute Director Dr. Bruce Walker also gave a surprise visit and talk! This marks the final […]
PRISM Science Club Launched
Mar 16, 2022 Ragon Culture
Last Saturday, March 12, the Ragon Institute hosted the first-ever meeting of the PRISM (Program of Ragon and IMES in Science and Medicine) Science Club for high school students. The PRISM Science Club provides opportunities for high school students from underrepresented communities in the Greater Boston area to learn about cutting-edge medical science and careers […]
RISE: Ragon Institute Summer Experience
Aug 6, 2021 Ragon Culture
On July 6, 2021, the Ragon Institute launched RISE, the Ragon Institute Summer Experience. Working with local communities, RISE provides an opportunity for local high school students to explore STEM through summer internships at the Ragon. Starting an internship program is never easy, and certainly no less challenging during the latter half of a pandemic. […]
Ragon Institute to Participate in Cambridge Science Festival 2021
Mar 16, 2021 Ragon Culture
Image courtesy of: Cambridge Science Festival The Ragon Institute, as part of its educational and community-building initiatives, is participating in Cambridge Science Festival 2021, a virtual event held throughout the month of April. The Science Festival is a celebration showcasing the leading edge in science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Based out of the MIT Museum, the festival, […]
Ragon Institute and Cambridge Public Library Host COVID-19 Seminar
Mar 10, 2021 Ragon Culture
image credit: Lisa Ferdinando, Office of the Secretary of Defense As part of its commitment to science education, the Ragon Institute had the unique opportunity of working with the Cambridge Public Library to bring COVID-19 information straight from researchers to the public. Ragon Director Bruce Walker, MD; Harvard postdoctoral fellow Zuri Sullivan, PhD; and Josefine […]
COVID-19 Primer for the Public
Feb 23, 2021 Ragon Culture
The Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard is collaborating with the Cambridge Public Library on “Vaccines and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Primer for the Public,” as part of the Cambridge Public Library’s Our Path Forward Series. The event, which features Bruce Walker, MD, Director of the Ragon, and Zuri Sullivan, PhD, will take […]
Facundo Batista appointed Chief Editor of The EMBO Journal
Feb 3, 2021 Ragon Culture
Ragon Associate director Facundo Batista, PhD, has accepted an appointment as Chief Editor of The EMBO Journal. Batista, who is also a professor at Harvard Medical School, succeeds Bernd Pulverer, PhD, Head of Scientific Publishing at EMBO. “I am delighted to serve the wider scientific community by joining The EMBO Journal as Chief Editor,” says Batista. “It is […]
Indunas and ITEACH Combat COVID-19
Nov 13, 2020 Ragon Culture
The Ragon Institute’s ITEACH program is enlisting local leaders in South Africa’s rural communities to combat COVID-19 ITEACH (Integration of TB in Education and Care for HIV/AIDS), a Ragon Institute program in South Africa, is enlisting leadership within rural communities in the country’s KwaZulu-Natal province to counter a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. By delivering […]
Kneel-In Vigil: In Support and Solidarity
Jun 4, 2020 Ragon Culture
We want to express our deep sadness over the recent and violent deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor in the US—three of the latest victims of the systemic racism that continues to plague our society. The last week has brought into crisp focus the deep racism that remains pervasive throughout our country, […]
Gathering Critical Clues
Jun 4, 2020 Ragon Culture
To understand how any given disease affects the body, scientists need a wide array of tools. One of the most valuable and indispensable instruments in their toolkit are clinical samples—small amounts of blood, urine, mucus, spit, and tissue that can be used to study a disease in a patient. For COVID-19, a disease that has an […]
MIT Students Gain Global Perspective on the HIV Epidemic
Feb 23, 2018 Ragon Culture
From January 19th to 29th, 2018, MIT undergraduates traveled to Durban, South Africa, to study the evolution of the AIDS epidemic. The class, a Health Sciences and Technology (HST) course taught by Dr. Bruce Walker (Ragon Institute) and Dr. Howard Heller (MIT Medical), is in its second year, and aims to examine the AIDS epidemic […]
Ragon Institute Hosts Cellular Immunity Workshop
Feb 2, 2018 Ragon Culture
On January 4th and 5th, 2018, leading researchers in the field of cellular immunology participated in an interactive workshop entitled “Prospects for designing and testing vaccines to elicit cellular immunity against HIV”, hosted by the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard. The meeting focused on how cell-mediated immunity can be incorporated into […]
Ragon Top Fundraiser for 2017 AIDS Walk Boston
Jun 8, 2017 Ragon Culture
For the first time, long-time participant, the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard is the top fundraising team of the AIDS Walk and 5K Run Boston with a total of $91,543 raised, the most ever raised by an individual team! Team Ragon at the Hatch Shell The event was held on […]
2017 AIDS Vaccine Awareness Day
May 18, 2017 Ragon Culture
Today– May 18th, 2017– is the 20th annual HIV Vaccine Awareness Day. It is a day to raise awareness for the need for a vaccine for HIV/AIDS. It is also a day to recognize and thank the thousands of HIV vaccine clinical trial volunteers, researchers, health professionals, and activists who work together toward this goal. […]