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Partnership to Research Human Mucosal Immunology with Immune Profiling System

Mar 9, 2015

Enumeral Biomedical Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB:ENUM) today announced that the company signed an agreement with the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University as part of Enumeral’s Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Enumeral is developing an advanced, automated prototype […]

Corleis Awarded Postdoc Recognition Award

Feb 19, 2015 Awards

Dr. Björn Corleis, postdoctoral fellow at Ragon, has been selected as this year’s winner of the Postdoc Recognition Award by the Mass General Postdoc Association (MGPA).   The MGPA serves the MGH postdoctoral community, providing support for research and career related matters across the hospital. The Postdoc Recognition Award is designed to recognize outstanding postdoctoral […]

Ragon Faculty Members Receive Milton Award

Feb 13, 2015

Ragon faculty members Drs. Alejandro Balaz and Daniel Lingwood have been awarded this year’s prestigious Milton Fund award.   The Harvard University William F. Milton Fund grants often fill gaps in funding. The fund, which is open to Harvard faculty members, funds new and original projects in the fields of medicine, geography, history, and science. […]

Novel Technology Reveals Immune Responses at the Single Cell Level

Dec 8, 2014

Scientists from the Ragon Institute participate in the development of a novel technology to facilitate the study of immune responses at the single cell level.   BOSTON – In a manuscript published this month in Nature Communications, a group of scientists from the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard and the CHUM Research […]

Walker Honored at Gala Sida Barcelona

Dec 8, 2014 Ragon Culture

Ragon Institute Director, Dr. Bruce Walker was honored at the 5th Annual Gala Sida Barcelona (AIDS Gala) held on November 12 in Barcelona, Spain.   The AIDS Gala is an annual event held by the Fight AIDS Foundation. Established in 1992 by Dr. Bonaventura Clotet, the Fight AIDS Foundation is a non-profit organization whose main […]

Celebration of Life 2014

Dec 4, 2014

Every November, the Boston Living Center a non-profit community and resource center,  gathers people living with HIV/AIDS and their loved ones for a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner to celebrate the joy of life. On Tuesday, November 25, the tradition of the Celebration of Life continued at the Hynes Convention Center with more than 700 guests and […]

World AIDS Day Message From the Director

Dec 1, 2014

Today is World AIDS Day, another year has passed, steady progress has been made, and I feel a growing sense of guarded optimism.  Certainly from the standpoint of treatment, a single pill once a day is now reaching almost two thirds of people in need worldwide, and the injectable long duration ART is on the […]

New Allies in the HIV Fight

Dec 1, 2014

This month, the MGH magazine Proto features the work of Dr. Krista Dong and the innovative FRESH Program in South Africa which partners with young women to research the earliest phase of HIV infection.   From the Proto Magazine article:   Nomcebo Msomi is a 22-year-old South African woman with a shy smile. She lives […]

Walker Recognized Among Brightest Scientific Minds

Nov 26, 2014 Awards

Who are some of the best and brightest scientific minds of our time?   Multinational mass media and information firm, Thomson/Reuters answered this question by analyzing citation data over the last 11 years to identify those who published the highest-impact work.  Of the 32,000 individuals selected, 30 investigators are based at or closely affiliated with […]

World AIDS Day 2014 Events

Nov 24, 2014

World AIDS Day, established in 1988, is held annually on December 1st and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died. Please find below a list of local events around Boston.   Getting to Zero […]

Employee Highlight: Ildiko Toth

Nov 3, 2014

The expressed goal of the Ragon Insitute is lofty: to harness the immune system to prevent and cure human disease.  But behind every principal investigator publishing a new finding is a team of support staff enabling their research.  In the offices, administrative assistants, regulatory staff, and grant administrators manage the office, monitor funding, and ensure […]

Kleinsteuber Awarded EU Fellowship

Oct 23, 2014 Awards

Katja Kleinsteuber, PhD, a Postdoctoral Fellow with in the Walker Lab has been awarded the Marie Curie International outgoing fellowship awarded by the European Commission.   The European Commission plays a key role in providing support for the next generation of science, technology, researchers and innovations through the whole of the European Union and associated […]

Annual Institute Retreat Fosters Collaboration

Oct 20, 2014

The annual Ragon Institute Retreat was held this fall in Hebron, New Hampshire and reinforced collaborative research ties across the institute.   “Collaboration” has long been the watchword of the Ragon Institute, and has typically been applied to collaboration with outside institutions and disciplines. However, with 28 labs at the Ragon Institute, all headed by […]

BIDMC Awarded $20 Million for HIV Treatment

Oct 3, 2014 Awards

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has received a four-year, $20 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate and test broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of HIV. “We have recently demonstrated the profound therapeutic efficacy of the potent broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibody PGT121 in rhesus monkeys chronically infected with […]

Broad and Ragon Award First ENDHIV Collaborative Grants

Sep 25, 2014

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard are pleased to announce the newly established ENDHIV Collaborative grants, one-year, $100K grants designed to spark collaborations and to foster new scientific directions for scientists at both Institutes.   For the first round of proposals, which were accepted […]

Shalek Jointly Recruited by MIT and Ragon

Sep 10, 2014

The Ragon Institute, together with the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES) and the Chemistry Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), are pleased to announce that Dr. Alex K. Shalek has accepted a joint position as an Associate Member at the Ragon Institute, an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and a Core Member […]