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GEARS is an excellent forum in which to practice refining your scientific story. If as a presenter you would like feedback on your talk, contact one of the organizers in advance and we'd be happy to provide it. We're big fans of David Stern's advice on how to give a good scientific presentation.

Outreach

We engage with the broader scientific community to foster a supportive environment for all scientists to find mentors specific to their interests. We engage students, postdocs, and faculty of the Greater Boston Area to improve scientific training at every stage, both inside and outside of the...

MD and DMD Students

IT Services Orientation Complete the HMS IT Services Orientation Course on Canvas

Advanced Graduate Education

IT Services Orientation Complete the HMS IT Services Orientation Course on Canvas Teaching and Learning Platforms Get to your Course: CanvasAccess your course schedules, required reading material, videos, communications, quizzes and tests in the Canvas learning platform. Participate in Web Meetings...

Subinternship Program

The Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Offers two options for 4th year clerkship opportunities. We offer an Adult Orthopaedics Clerkship which is a collaboration among Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospitals. The clerkship is designed to...

Research

The Kahn Lab is investigating the mechanism of insulin action and its alterations in insulin resistant states, including type 2 diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome. There are 3 major areas of research: 1) Insulin action and insulin resistance. In this area we have projects focusing on the...

Insulin action - Mechanisms of insulin resistance

Differential signaling by insulin and IGF-1 receptors Differences in downstream signaling (IRS proteins/PI 3-kinase) Signaling by unoccupied insulin receptor Cellular and whole animal analysis using KO and KI mice Signaling in unusual tissues, e.g. the gut and brain

Jan Heng, PhD

Current Title/Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School Staff Scientist II, BIDMC Director, Detection Unit, Precision Medicine Core, Harvard Institute of RNA medicine (HiRM)/BIDMC Member, Cancer Research Institute, BIDMC (Translational Therapeutics) Member, Dana Farber...

Managing Expectations: From the Editor-in-Chief

Recent advancements in refractive surgery technology have rapidly expanded options for patients with vision impairment due to myopia, hyperopia, or astigmatism. Currently, about 600,000 people have laser vision correction each year, and this volume largely correlates with consumer confidence and...