2006 - 2005 Press Archive

December 27th, 2006

Annals of Neurology, "What should be done to improve the productivity of neurological research?"
HCNR Chair Joseph Martin and Hamilton Moses on productivity in neurological research.

November 3rd, 2006

EurekAlert, "Growth factor stimulates rapid extension of key motor neurons in brain: MGH study first to identify factors controlling growth of brain cells damaged in ALS"
Press release announcing Nature Neuroscience paper by HCNR Post-doc Hande Ozdinler.

October 17th, 2006

AJC.com, "Stem cell research targets Parkinson's; Top researcher fears politics may hamper progress"
HCNR investigator Ole Isacson discusses stem cell treatment for Parkinson's.

October 5th, 2006

Boston Globe, "Harvard Medical School dean will step down"
Harvard Medical School Dean Joseph Martin resigns but maintains HCNR leadership role.

September 28th, 2006

Globe Insider, "Brain research requires rethinking"
HCNR Chair Joseph Martin receives prize and discusses neurodegenerative disease.

August 23rd, 2006

ALS Consortium Press Release, "Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Select Illumina HumanHap300 BeadChips for Whole-Genome Association Study of ALS"

July 28th, 2006

ScienceCareers.org, "Careers in Drug Discovery: Targeting the Mechanisms and Opportunities"
Featuring the HCNR's Laboratory for Drug Discovery in Neurodegeneration.

July 2nd, 2006

EurekAlert, "Large-scale cross-platform study of research microarrays uncovers high concordance across platforms"
Press release featuring HCNR funded work.

April 20th, 2006

USA Today, "Her goal: Put MS out of business"
HCNR Council Co-Chair Martha Crowninshield and the IMSGC featured. 

March 10th, 2006

HMIWorld, "Advances in knowledge and technology help move research aimed at curing Alzheimer's disease from the laboratory to the clinic"
HCNR co-chair Dennis Selkoe and other HCNR members quoted in this Harvard Medical International article.

March 7th, 2006

Research Policy Update, "Academia and Industry Must Address Impediments to Collaboration - Harvard's Ivinson"

February 24th, 2006

Boston Globe, "Summers's bold vision for life sciences"

February 7th, 2006

Science Daily, "Fruit Fly Reveals A Potential Connection Between Dementia And Cancer"
Authors include HCNR predoc fellow Vik Khurana. 

January 13th, 2006

Focus Online, "Powerful Imager Strengthens Longwood MRI Facility"

November 4th, 2005

Science, "University Investment in Drug Discovery"
Director Adrian Ivinson's letter to the Editor

November 22nd, 2005

HCNR Members recognized by Scientific American.
HCNR members Brad Hyman (the John B. Penney, Jr. professor of neurology at MGH), Clay Reid (HMS professor of neurobiology), and Zheng-Yi Chen (assistant professor of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital), and two other HMS researchers were recognized as research leaders in Scientific American 50, the magazine’s list of the 50 individuals or organizations who have been influential in science or technology in the past year. Dr. Reid was recognized for his research on imaging technology for the brain, Dr. Chen for his research on the applications of gene therapy to hearing loss and other chronic conditions, and Dr. Hyman for developing early brain scanning tools that help pinpoint the presence of Alzheimer’s disease

The other two HMS investigators recognized are George Church (professor of genetics) for inventing a new method to produce synthetic DNA, and Mark T. Keating (professor of cell biology at Children’s Hospital for his experiments using biomedical engineering to enable heart muscle cells to multiply.  Please see the December 2005 issue of Scientific American for more details.

October 25th, 2005

Research Policy Alert, "Model Harvard Program Aims to Close Drug Development Gap"

Research Policy Alert, "All Voluntary Health Organizations Can Take a Page From Actor's Advocacy Book"

October 20th, 2005

Harvard Gazette, "Work progressing on Alzheimer's, but too slowly"

October 14th, 2005

Research Policy Alert, "Collaborative Harvard Center Targets Neurodegenerative Disease"

October 13th, 2005

Podcast: Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain (10/13/05 9:43 a.m.)
In the next 30 years, as people live longer and a large generation of baby-boomers begin reaching retirement age, some experts say Alzheimer's disease could strike twice as many people as it does now. However, Dr. Adrian Ivinson tells NECN's Shannon Ogden there could be some hope. Download podcast.

September 21th, 2005

Drug Discovery News, "Collaboration of the Mind: GE, Harvard team up for neurodegenerative studies"

September 30th, 2005

Focus, "Genome Scanning Technique Spots Disease Risk Through Sorting Ancestry Mix"