Angelica Torres-Berrio, Ph.D. – 2025
Angelica Torres-Berrio, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School Linkedin Globe Twitter Epigenetic Regulation Of Neural Excitability In A Mouse Model Of Infantile Epilepsy Epilepsy is a brain disorder that affects nearly ten million children globally and can impact their overall well-being and long-term health. This condition is characterized […]
Maria de los Angeles Serrano, Ph.D. – 2025
Maria de los Angeles Serrano, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) Boston University Linkedin Globe Twitter Histone Marks Profiling: Decoding Cellular Mechanisms in Congenital Rare Disorders Caused by Pathogenic Variants in Chromatin-Modifier Genes Rare diseases individually affect fewer than 200,000 people but collectively impact 1 in 10 Americans, including 16 million […]
Nora Renthal, M.D., Ph.D. – 2025
Nora Renthal, M.D., Ph.D. Instructor in Pediatrics Boston Children’s Hospital Linkedin Globe Twitter Understanding Mechanisms for Improved Pediatric Skeletal Health: Novel Regulators of Chondrocyte-to-Osteoblast Transdifferentiation A healthy skeleton is crucial for a child’s ability to grow and develop without experiencing pain or fractures. However, skeletal dysplasias and disorders of bone mineralization disrupt healthy bone accrual […]
Alon Peltz, M.D., M.B.A. – 2025
Alon Peltz, M.D., M.B.A. Assistant Professor of Population Medicine Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute Harvard Medical School Linkedin Globe Twitter Socioeconomic Inequities in RSV Immunization and Population-based Outcomes Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a common respiratory infection that typically occurs between the late fall and early spring. Every year in the U.S., there are more […]
Emily Heikamp, M.D., Ph.D. – 2025
Emily Heikamp, M.D., Ph.D. Instructor in Pediatrics Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Linkedin Globe Twitter Targeting Chromatin Regulators in NUP98-rearranged Acute Myeloid Leukemia Pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a blood cancer with a poor prognosis. Many types of AML are driven by cut-and-paste errors called chromosomal rearrangements that join parts of two different genes to […]
Amy O’Connell, M.D., Ph.D. – 2024
Amy O’Connell, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Boston Children’s Hospital Linkedin Globe Twitter Postnatal Exposure to Hyperoxia Causes Maladaptation of the Premature Intestine Premature infants frequently develop intestinal problems, ranging from milder problems like not tolerating their feedings from time to time, to developing a severe and often deadly disease called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). […]
Novalia Pishesha, Ph.D. – 2024
Novalia Pishesha, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Boston Children’s Hospital Linkedin Globe Twitter Nanobody-based Immunotherapy for Modulating Inflammation in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (sJIA) is a serious condition that not only causes joint pain in children but can also lead to widespread inflammation and severe complications, like macrophage activation syndrome (MAS), […]
Judith Kempfle, M.D. – 2024
Judith Kempfle, M.D. Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Linkedin Globe Twitter Characterization of Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Neurofibromatosis Type 2 Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2) is a rare genetic condition where non-cancerous Schwann cell tumors develop along the balance portion of the hearing and balance nerve in both inner ears. […]
Emilia Favuzzi, Ph.D. – 2024
Emilia Favuzzi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Yale University Linkedin Globe Twitter Impact of Early Life Immune Challenges on Brain Wiring Understanding what impacts the development of a child’s brain is critical for the health of children because the brain controls all aspects of their physical, cognitive, and emotional growth. The brain is not […]
Jeeyun Chung, Ph.D. – 2024
Jeeyun Chung, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University Linkedin Globe Twitter Targeting Lipid Dysregulation in Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia The goal of this proposal is to investigate the role of lipid storage compartments in our cells, known as lipid droplets (LDs), within motor neurons, to understand how they contribute to the […]