Ragon Institute
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Aug 14, 2014 Awards
Ragon Institute Investigator Filippos Porichis, PhD has been recognized by the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD) for significant contributions to research conducted within the CAVD. Dr. Porichis was nominated for the Early Career Investigator Award by Dr. Bruce Walker, CAVD Principal Investigator and Director of the Ragon Institute. The Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine […]
Aug 1, 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 […]
Jul 28, 2014
The KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH) hosted its third Interactive Biostatistics Course in Durban, South Africa. 39 scientists participated in the course at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH) which was opened up to scientists from Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Botswana and Cameroon. Travel scholarships for these students was […]
Jul 21, 2014
The most critical barrier for curing HIV-1 infection is the presence of the viral reservoir, the cells in which the HIV virus can lie dormant for many years and avoid elimination by antiretroviral drugs. Very little has been known about when and where the viral reservoir is established during acute HIV-1 infection, or the extent […]
Jul 1, 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 […]
Jun 24, 2014
A new Ragon Institute-associated lab has been recently opened at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare. The goal of the lab is to facilitate translational research in Africa by encouraging clinicians and scientists to work together to identify critical research questions based on clinical observations and identify solutions in the lab. The laboratory was […]
Jun 11, 2014
Investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard have learned more about one way the immune systems of elite controllers – those rare individuals able to control HIV infection without drug treatment – block a key step in the virus’s life cycle. In a paper appearing in […]
Jun 4, 2014 Ragon Culture
Sunday, June 1 was a beautiful day for a walk… The 29th annual AIDS Walk Boston & 5K Run that is! For the 18th year in a row, Team Ragon walked with the goal, not only of raising money, but also of raising awareness. As the 78 team members joined the thousands who […]
Jun 1, 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 […]
May 5, 2014
On February 28, the Ragon Institute celebrated five years of innovation and collaboration at the Walker Memorial on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge. Over 200 employees, friends and collaborators of the Institute gathered that evening to celebrate the ongoing commitment to progressive scientific discovery. Since its establishment in 2009, the Ragon […]
Apr 21, 2014
Five principal investigators from the US and South Africa were awarded the first round of funding from the new Ragon TB Seed Grants. One of the primary missions of the Ragon Institute is to provide a means for rapidly funding promising studies and emerging concepts in the field of HIV research. Since 2009, the […]
Apr 10, 2014
The Ragon Institute fosters an environment that breaks down silos between different fields of science. This has allowed Dr. Brad Jones, Ragon Institute post-doctoral fellow, to move forwards with an idea that takes an innovative technology developed in the laboratory of Dr. Darrell Irvine for the treatment of cancer, and to combine it with the […]