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46 unusual facts about Harvard Medical School


American Society for Investigative Pathology

ASIP traces its earliest beginnings to the Boston Society of Medical Sciences that was begun in 1869 by a group of faculty from Harvard Medical School.

Andrew D. Luster

Andrew D. Luster, MD, PhD, is the Persis, Cyrus and Marlow B. Harrison Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Arthur Pardee

In 1961 Pardee became Professor in Biochemical Sciences at Princeton University while in 1975 he moved to Boston to become Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School as well as Chief for the Division of Cell Growth and Regulation at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Ben E. May

He supported the Weizmann Institute; funded the research of Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin; aided the investigations of Paul Dudley White, renowned cardiologist affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts; and helped found a cancer research institute led by Charles B. Huggins, director of oncology research at the University of Chicago.

Brainbow

The technique was originally developed in the Spring of 2007 by a team led by Jeff W. Lichtman and Joshua R. Sanes, both professors of Molecular & Cellular Biology in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.

Bruce R. Korf

He was associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and directed postdoctoral training in medical and laboratory genetics at hospitals affiliated with Harvard.

Dennis Choi

Choi grew up in Watertown, Massachusetts, attended Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1974, and went on to Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology to receive an MD and a PhD in Pharmacology in 1978.

Donald B Lindsley

# National Research Council Fellowship 1933-1935 at Harvard Medical School

Edwin Trevathan

• Fellow in Neurophysiology & Epilepsy, 1986–87, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

First professional degree

The first medical schools that granted the MB degree were Penn, Harvard, Toronto, Maryland, and Columbia.

George Barker Windship

He attended Roxbury Latin School and then Harvard Medical School, where he obtained his M.D. in 1857 at the age of 20.

George L. Blackburn

George L. Blackburn, MD, PhD serves as the S. Daniel Abraham Associate Professor of Nutrition and Associate Director of the Division of Nutrition at Harvard Medical School.

Gustavo Baz Prada

In 1925 he went to the United States doing further medeical studies with Harvard Medical School, Augustan Hospital in Chicago and also in Rochester, New York.

Heimar de Fátima Marin

Dr. Marin holds a position as Visiting Professor at Decision Systems Group at Harvard Medical School.

Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Professor Kashi Javaherian (currently a senior scientist at Harvard Medical School) was among the researchers and lecturers of the Institute in the past.

Jeremy Gunawardena

After leading Hewlett-Packard's research team in Europe, he joined the faculty of systems biology at the Harvard Medical School.

K. M. Cherian

He received a Wockhardt Medical Excellence Award in 2005, through a panel organised by Harvard Medical School.

He received a Wockhardt Medical Excellence Award in 2005, through a panel organized by Harvard Medical School.

Keith Flaherty

Keith Flaherty is Director of Developmental Therapeutics at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

LaGrange, Georgia

Louis Tompkins Wright, (1891–1952), physician, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, the first African-American physician to be appointed to the staff of a New York City municipal hospital; notable for many scientific breakthroughs, including the introduction of intradermal smallpox vaccination.

Laura Rockefeller Chasin

A leader in family therapy, he was president of the American Family Therapy Academy and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Laurie Glimcher

Glimcher is Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research

Its members are the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in affiliation with Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Lynn Bry

Bry teaches medical school courses and is also a lecturer and mentor for the Project Success Program at Harvard Medical School.

Lynn Bry is the Founder and Executive Director of The Madsci Network and an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

M. R. S. Rao

For several occasions, he served as visiting professor to Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and University of California at San Diego, USA.

Obala foundation

They formed the group drawing from intellectual resources at Harvard Medical School and surroundings to address these issues.

Pennsauken Township, New Jersey

Harold Amos (1918–2003), microbiologist and professor, who was the first black department chairman at Harvard Medical School.

Peter Tizard

He held a research fellowship at the Harvard Medical School (1951) and was appointed Professor of Paediatrics at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London (1964), heading the neonatal research unit.

Phellinus linteus

A paper published by Harvard Medical School reported that Phellinus linteus is a promising anti-cancer agent, but that more research is required to understand the mechanisms behind its anti-cancer activity.

Pierre Janet

While he did not publish much in English, the fifteen lectures he gave to the Harvard Medical School between 15 October and the end of November 1906 were published in 1907 as The Major Symptoms of Hysteria, and he received an honorary doctorate from Harvard in 1936.

Richard Bromfield

Richard Bromfield, Ph.D., is a psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School who specializes in the therapy and upbringing of children and adolescents.

Richard Dubin

His clients have included IBM and Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

Roderick Bronson

Roderick T. Bronson, D.V.M. is an American pathologist and the director of the Rodent Pathology Core at Harvard Medical School.

Ruth C. Engs

After college graduation she worked as the laboratory assistant in the Bacteriology Department of Harvard Medical School for two years.

Serge Carrière

In 1962, he joined the Harvard Medical School as an instructor in physiology from 1962 to 1964.

Sharon Carpenter

Carpenter was born in England, the daughter and step-daughter of two doctors and former professors at Harvard Medical School.

Simon Boulton

He first worked under Professor Nick Dyson of the MGH Cancer Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, then under Professor Marc Vidal of the Dana Faber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School.

Ted Kaptchuk

Ted Kaptchuk is an author, researcher, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he focuses on the placebo effect.

Terry Cline

He then received both a master’s degree and a PhD in clinical psychology from Oklahoma State University, following which he held a six year appointment as a clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

The Purity Myth

Valenti explains that she was unable to find an exact medical definition of virginity in the Harvard Medical School library and that the popular concept of virginity did not fit both genders.

Waldemar Olszewski

Olszewski received postgraduate training and carried out research studies at Hammersmith Hospital, London during the period 1962-63, then at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, between 1968 and 1970.

William Francis Ganong, Jr.

He was a graduate of Harvard Medical School and served with the United States Army during World War II and the Korean War in which he was part of a medical team that established a MASH unit, the Hemorrhagic Fever Center.

Yaakov Nahmias

In 2006, he became an independent investigator at Harvard Medical School, winning a NIH Research Scientist Career Award (K01).

Yaakov (Koby) Nahmias is the director of the Center for Bioengineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a junior faculty at Harvard Medical School and an affiliated member of the NIH-funded BioMEMS Resource Center at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Yakovlevian torque

It is named for Paul Ivan Yakovlev (1894–1983), a Russian-American Neuroanatomist from Harvard Medical School.


Anirvan Ghosh

His postdoctoral training was with Michael E. Greenberg at Harvard Medical School where he worked on regulation of differentiation by extracellular signals and calcium regulation of BDNF expression.

Catherine Steiner-Adair

Dr. Steiner-Adair is an Associate Psychologist at McLean Hospital and Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Dolorimeter

Harvard Medical School Professor and Massachusetts General Hospital Anaesthetist Henry K. Beecher (1957) expressed skepticism about this method of measuring pain.

Eric R. Braverman

He received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine with honors in 1983, and obtained internal medicine experience at Greenwich Hospital, a Yale School of Medicine affiliate and research experience at Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate.

Esomeprazole

Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, spoke at Harvard Medical School to a German magazine on August 16, 2007, and said that AstraZeneca's scientists deceptively doctored their comparative studies such that the difference from omeprazole would look larger, providing a marketing advantage.

Fannie Farmer

Farmer was invited to lecture at Harvard Medical School and began teaching convalescent diet and nutrition to doctors and nurses.

Gastrointestinal pathology

That first evening session was organized by Jack Yardley from Johns Hopkins University, and included Henry Appelman (University of Michigan), Harvey Goldman (Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School), Bill Hawk (The Cleveland Clinic), Tom Kent (University of Iowa), Si-Chun Ming (Temple University), Tom Norris (University of Washington), and Robert Riddell (University of Chicago).

Jerry Avorn

Jerome "Jerry" Lewis Avorn, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Jordi Folch Pi

In 1944, with only 33 years of age, Folch was appointed director of the new Biological Research Laboratory at the McLean Hospital (a division of Massachusetts General Hospital) and assistant professor of biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School to develop a program in Neuroscience.

Karl Bowman

During his career, Bowman was the chief medical officer at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital; an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (1921–1936); the chief of psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital (1936–1941); a professor of psychiatry at New York University Medical College (1936–1941); the first chairman and director of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute (1941–1956); and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Leigh McCullough

McCullough was an associate clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, director of the Psychotherapy Research Program at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a visiting professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway).

Maryanne Wolf

She has also worked on language research and child development at Harvard Medical School and the McLean Hospital Department of Psychiatry in Boston.

Nadia Rosenthal

She received her PhD from Harvard Medical School and was an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Boston University and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School before transferring to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory where she replaced Klaus Rajewsky who had just gone to work at Harvard Medical School.

Norbert Perrimon

From 1983 to 1986 Perrimon was a postdoctoral fellow with Anthony Mahowald at Case Western Reserve University, and in 1986 he accepted appointment as faculty at Harvard Medical School.

Timothy Buie

Timothy M. Buie is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital, who also practices at Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

Two Degrees Food

Two Degrees Food’s board of advisors includes physicians Steve Collins and Judith Palfrey, the Boston Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Utkan Demirci

Utkan Demirci is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.