Ragon Institute
Jul 23, 2024 Features
In January 2020, two students from across the world met on the “Evolution of an Epidemic” course. Their friendship inspired the creation of a program they hope will benefit African science for years to come. Martin Lubowa was a high school student at the prestigious African Leadership Academy (ALA) when he got an opportunity–the chance […]
Jul 18, 2024
We are delighted to announce the upcoming launch of the Ragon Child Care Center at our new building at 600 Main Street. Operated by Bright Horizons, the Ragon Child Care Center will offer early childhood education and care right at the heart of our community. With programs tailored for infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children, this center […]
Jul 16, 2024 Features
On July 9, Ragon faculty member and Early Independence Fellow Charles Evavold, PhD, participated in a special seminar as part of the Science Seminar Series @RCCHU titled “Synthetic Biology Strategies for Human Health: From Yeasts to Immune Cells.” Hosted by the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard (RCCHU) and Harvard Medical School, this seminar explored innovative […]
Jul 9, 2024 Features
González Rubio discusses the circumstances that brought her to the Ragon and how she hopes to grow from it The years immediately after completing a doctorate are one of the most pivotal times in any researcher’s career — a period where they set the course of their research and grow beyond their time as a […]
Jun 27, 2024 Features
Researchers at the Ragon Institute’s System Serology Lab have conducted a comprehensive study on how infants develop immunity to Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). Postdoctoral fellow Nadège Nziza was the first author of the study, published in Immunity, which explores how the immune responses of infants to RSV change over time. The paper, titled “Longitudinal humoral […]
Jun 26, 2024
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/06/how-ragon-institutes-new-building-aids-its-mission-cross-disciplinary-infectious-diseases-immunology/
Jun 25, 2024
https://news.mit.edu/2024/new-ragon-institute-building-opens-in-kendall-square-0621
Jun 25, 2024 Features
Ragon faculty member and Early Independence Fellow Charles Evavold, PhD, has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2024-2025 Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School. The fellowship selection committee was deeply impressed by Evavold’s accomplishments and his potential for leadership in cancer research. Evavold was also invited to […]
Jun 20, 2024
The new building in the heart of Kendall Square will support the Institute’s research to harness the power of the human immune system to prevent and cure disease The Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham, MIT, and Harvard celebrated the official opening of its new headquarters in Cambridge with two ribbon-cutting ceremonies this past week. […]
Jun 13, 2024
Celebrating Pride Month, we are delighted to share moments from the Boston Pride for the People Parade that took place on June 8. Members of the Ragon community joined the vibrant event, celebrating the history and meaning behind this month. At the Ragon Institute, we are proud to support the LGBTQ+ community, advocating for equality […]
Jun 10, 2024 Features
New research published today by scientists at the Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham, MIT and Harvard, the University of Oxford, the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the African Health Research Institute in South Africa, shows that male infants are more likely to achieve HIV cure/remission than females. The peer-reviewed study, published by Nature Medicine, assessed […]
May 30, 2024 Features
Batista Lab postdoctoral fellow Rashmi Ray, PhD, was the first author of the paper published in Nature. Decades into the HIV epidemic, there is as yet no effective vaccine to prevent new cases. In a recent Nature Immunology article (Ray et al.), the Batista lab of the Ragon Institute has preclinically validated a new HIV […]
May 28, 2024 Features
Ragon faculty member Alejandro Balazs, PhD, has been awarded a prestigious Avant-Garde Award for HIV and Substance Use Disorder Research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This award is part of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award mechanism, which supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who […]
May 23, 2024
Earlier this month, the 2024 Ragon PRISM Science Club concluded after eight weeks of providing high school students from underrepresented communities in the Greater Boston area a hands-on experience of scientific research. Pictured above are our 2024 students. The program, launched in 2022, is a joint effort between the Ragon Institute, MIT’s Institute for Medical […]
May 23, 2024 Features
We are proud to recognize Sophie Giguere, PhD, a Batista Lab graduate student who has been honored with the prestigious 2023 Jeffrey Modell Prize. This award, conferred jointly by the Jeffrey Modell Foundation and the Harvard Medical School Graduate Committee of Immunology, recognizes HMS graduates for outstanding achievements in their doctoral research and overall excellence […]
May 20, 2024 Features
HIV has proven a hard target for vaccine design. The most promising approach, germline-targeting (GT), proposes a series of immunizations: a first shot to activate inexperienced B cells—antibody-producing white blood cells—followed by a sequence of immunogens that are more and more like the HIV Envelope (Env) protein. The ultimate goal of GT immunization is to […]