Richard Lee

By Alice McCarthy A research collaborative led by scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston discovered that exercise restarts an aged heart’s ability to make new heart cells, a process that usually ends by...

Special HSCI Award honoring the legacy of Kin Ping Lee (mother of William, JD | Thomas, MD | Richard, MD) HSCI is pleased to announce a special funding opportunity for up to three qualified postdoctoral fellows/non-ladder faculty currently working in HSCI...

Amy Wagers, Richard Lee, and Norbert Perrimon receive National Institutes of Health Director’s awards for innovative research Three scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have been honored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director...

Research in the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) Cardiovascular Disease Program centers on ten laboratories at Harvard University and its eight affiliated hospitals. Their shared goal is to develop new treatments for heart disease. “We’re interested in...

Cambridge, MA, June 16,2016 - The Harvard Stem Cell Institute, three of Harvard’s clinical affiliates, and a biopharmaceutical company have formed a unique collaboration to establish the Boston Autologous Islet Replacement Program (BAIRT) to accelerate a...

Lee Rubin, PhD, and Amy Wagers, PhD, (below) of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute provide more evidence that a protein known as GDF11 reverses signs of aging in mice. (Credit: B.D. Colen/Harvard University) Harvard stem cell researchers advance...

Recent research has shown that there are new cells that develop in the heart, but how these cardiac cells are born and how frequently they are generated remains unclear. In a study from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), researchers...

Two Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers — a stem cell biologist and a practicing cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital — have identified a protein in the blood of mice and humans that may prove to be the first effective treatment for the...