Researching the complex interplay between the major factors underlying metabolic health and disease, including diet, age, environment, and genetics, for the prevention and treatment of widespread chronic diseases.
Hannah Smith, PhD ’25, approaches life with a constant sense of curiosity—from working to uncover the molecular mechanisms of aging, to adventuring outdoors and traveling.
Growth factor signaling pathways are known to drive tissue growth and development, but how these molecular mechanisms function across different organs in a living organism has remained unclear. In particular,…
A new collaboration between Harvard Chan School and İş Private Equity of Istanbul aims to translate groundbreaking discoveries about a protein that helps regulate metabolism and inflammation into novel therapeutics for obesity, heart disease, and age-related illnesses.
A newly discovered mechanism that leads to liver dysfunction may be a key factor in type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders in individuals with obesity, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School.
William Mair, professor of molecular metabolism at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, shares what researchers know about the biology of aging, the importance of improving health span, and the need to take moonshots.
In April 2024, under the guidance of Dr. Liming Liang, the Harvard University Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (EDIB) and the Interdisciplinary Discussion on Disease and Health, A…
