Last month, the Wyss Institute had the honor of hosting the Women’s Health Access Matters (WHAM) Spring Forum, convening researchers, industry leaders, investors, and advocates committed to closing the gender health gap. The event brought together cross-sector voices to explore bold ideas, share scientific breakthroughs, and catalyze action across women’s brain, heart, and reproductive health....| Wyss Institute
Projects focus on issues from TB and chemotherapy to prolonged space travel, pandemic preparedness.| Harvard Gazette
By Lindsay Brownell (BOSTON) — Getting medicines into the cells they’re designed to treat is a perennial problem for the medicine and pharmaceutical industries, and patients often suffer from side effects and ineffective treatments as a result. Current drug delivery vehicles carry a host of risks and limits: lipid nanoparticles can cause immune reactions and...| Wyss Institute
This op-ed originally appeared in MedPage Today. By Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D. I was on the frontlines when COVID-19 hit and it felt like a surprise attack. Many academic research departments closed, but the Wyss Institute at Harvard, which I head, moved into high gear. We raced to develop new ways to manufacture nasal swabs,...| Wyss Institute
By Benjamin Boettner This video explains the basic principles of eRapid as an electrochemical sensing platform, and how it could be used for low-cost, multiplexed detection of a wide range of biomolecules for diagnostic applications. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (BOSTON) – In an article published in the prestigious Accounts in Chemical Research, Wyss...| Wyss Institute