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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...

CABIP

Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging and Photonics studies the interaction of light with biological tissue on the microscopic and macroscopic scale. Scientists at the Center work at the interface of biophotonics, bioengineering and cancer biology, with a particular emphasis on: scattering of...

Book Chapters

Perelman LT, Modell MD, Vitkin EI and Hanlon EB. Chapter 9. Light Scattering Spectroscopy: From Elastic to Inelastic. In: Tuchin V, editor. Coherent-Domain Optical Methods for Biomedical Diagnostics, Environmental and Material Science. Bristol and Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing; 2004...

Raising Awareness

Do these patients sound familiar? “I’ve worn glasses and contacts for years. My ophthalmologist never mentioned LASIK could be another option.” “Ten years ago, one of my friends had LASIK and she ended up with severe dry eye. I’m not sure I’d want to take the risk.” Precision technology enhances...