Congrats to
#MGRI
Image Contest finalist Julie McDonald
@jlmcd_
! Love the creative title, the cells really do look like eggs! Learn more about Julie's image and the other finalists:
The MGH Research Scholars program was created to provide forward-thinking researchers with the unrestricted funding they need to take their work into new and uncharted territories.
We are pleased to announce the 2020 class of
#MGH
Research Scholars!
Our celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation week continues with a profile of Michael VanElzakker, PhD, who is studying brain imagery to help patients with chronic fatigue syndrome
#NPAW2018
@MBVanElzakker
Meet
@lauren_orefice
! She recently became an assistant professor in genetics at
@harvardmed
and is an
@MGHMolBio
researcher studying the underpinnings of touch hypersensitivity to help people with
#ASD
and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
#MGRI
Have you noticed
How many tweets
Now have really short sentences.
And lots of space between each line of text?
We wanted to try it out.
We love research.
We think the research that happens at Mass General is really cool.
And we love to help promote it.
That is all.
Using advanced imaging technologies, researchers been able to identify some of the major highways in the brain that signals travel along. But the side roadsโthose smaller connections that canโt be visualized yetโremain a mystery.
@nastasiayendiki
Today is Ether Day!
On October 16, 1846, the first successful public demonstration of the use of ether for surgical anesthesia was performed at
@MassGeneralNews
, making pain-free surgery possible.
Read more:
#ether
#Anesthesia
Jane Claflin was part of the
#MGH
community for 50+ yrs, and was devoted to supporting
#WomenInScience
. While we are deeply saddened by her passing, we celebrate her invaluable contributions and will continue to honor her and her memory through the Claflin Distinguished Scholars.
Congrats to
#MGRI
Image Contest finalist Caroline Magnain
@CMagnain
! The creative combination of art and science is so cool! Learn more about Caroline's image and the other finalists:
Someone created a Peep representation of
#MassGeneral
's Ether Dome for a sceince-themed Peep contest and it won an honorable mention! We did not submit this entry ourselves, but we wish we had. Suggestions for next year?
#MGRI
@MassGeneralNews
@MGHSurgery
Even before birth, environment matters.
A motherโs exposures in pregnancy impact not only the mother, but also the placenta and the developing fetus, with potential short- and longer-term consequences.
Read how the
@EdlowLab
is researching just that:
Natalia Rost, MD, MPH, will lead a major NIH-funded national network (DISCOVERY) to address post-stroke cognitive impairment and dementia in the US. The $39M grant is the largest U19 award received by
#MassGeneral
@nsanar
@MassGeneralNews
@NINDSdirector
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a new imaging protocol for
#ALS
patients that could make it easier to test new treatments and identify early signs of the disease:
#ALSawareness
Join us this Thursday at 8:00am for Harvard Medical Grand Rounds featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci discussing the Public Health and Scientific Challenges of
#COVID19
.
The
@harvardmed
flag is at half mast today to honor the life of Robert Moir, PhD, an HMS/Mass General Alzheimer's researcher. Dr. Moir died last month at 58 from glilbastoma. We're proud to join them in recognizing his memory.
@MGHNeuroSci
@MGHNeurology
@MassGeneralNews
A big thank you to Phillip and Susan Ragon for their generous donation of $200 million, the largest single gift in
#MassGeneral
history, to support the
@ragoninstitute
, whose researchers have been working tirelessly to prevent and cure HIV/AIDS.
#MGRI
"It also has the largest hospital-based research program; over 1,200 clinical trials are conducted at any given time, and in 2016โ17 topped the Nature Index list, publishing more articles in โhigh-impactโ journals than any other hospital in America"
#MGRI
๐
Drumroll....
We have a winner!!! Congratulations to Adam Viens of
@mgh_id
@MassGeneralCRM
and
@MGHCancerCenter
and to all the finalists who will soon be on display in Building 149! Names and photos to follow!
Solve M.E. is pleased to announce 7 research studies funded by the Ramsay Program in 2019. Welcome to the 30+ investigators and collaborators who will help grow ME/CFS research over the next year! To learn more and meet the researchers, visit:
#RamsayGrant
Imagine being able to detect cancer in the blood up to 10 years before patients are diagnosed. In the
@FadenLab
at
@MassEyeAndEar
and
@massgeneralnews
, researchers are working to make this a reality for some patients.
Read more:
The unsung heroes of the hospital's response to the COVID-19 are all the staff members who keep the institution going--police and security, food service workers, housekeeping and too many more to mention. We are so appreciative of everything they do!
We've launched
#COVID
FAQ sessions to our employees on the front lines. As the most
#diverse
part of our workforce, ensuring sessions are conducted in multiple
#languages
& culturally sensitive is key. Here, Dr. Sam Slavin speaks in
#haitiancreole
Thrilled to share with y'all that I'm hiring 3 new full-time folks to join our research team here at Mass General Hospital / Harvard Med!๐ฅณ
Please share widely with your talented friends & colleagues! โจ Job postings in the thread below.
Introducing: โโCiencia en tu Idiomaโโ, a new podcast created by
#MGRI
to share conversations about science and medicine in Spanish!
In the first episode, we chat with
@EJFloresMD
about the importance of having multilingual research information available.
Researchers from the lab of
@ytquiroz
@MGHPsychiatry
@MGHNeurology
& colleagues compared the cognitive profiles of children who have an AD variant in the presenilin-1 gene and who are destined to develop early-onset dementia by their 50s.
Congrats to
#MGRI
Image Contest finalist
@MichaelDatko
! Have you ever seen an MRI machine so mesmerizing?! Learn more about Michael's image and the other finalists:
It's finally here! The exhibit displaying the
#MGRI
Image Contest finalists was installed today in Building 149 of CNY! Thank you to the team that helped make this happen and to the scientists who shared their
#research
with us!
#sciencetwitter
@MassGeneralNews
@MGHMartinos
.
@TarjS
is a postdoc in the lab of
@dalygene
at
#MGH
. Singh is working with a large global team of scientists to compare the exomes of people with and without
#schizophrenia
to identify genetic differences in specific genes that contribute to risk:
Congrats to
#MGRI
Image Contest finalist Joshua Tam! Who knew a sebaceous gland could look so magical? Learn more about Joshua's image and the other finalists:
Today is Ether Day! It is celebrated here every year to recognize the first use of ether as an anesthetic, which took place at MGH on October 16, 1846. Learn more about the ether dome and
@MassGeneralNews
history in this
@washingtonpost
piece!
โThe question with buprenorphine diversion is how you best reduce its nonprescribed use โ and the answer is probably expanding access to treatment.โ -
@DrSarahWakeman
of
@MGHMedicine
#MGRI
Congrats to
#MGRI
Image Contest finalist
@SepulcreLab
! Such a unique and beautiful way to visualize brain connectivity! Learn more about Jorge's image and the other finalists:
Thank you to everyone who entered our
#MGRI
#Halloween
Costume Contest, all the entries were great! This year's winner is...
@MBVanElzakker
and his team in the
#VagabondLab
! Read the paper that inspired this awesome
#science
-themed costume:
Several
#MassGeneral
researchers aided in the creation SurgiBox, an inflatable operating room designed to make surgeries safer when there is no access to a traditional operating room.
@GeococyxVelox
@MassGeneralNews
#HeartMonth
spotlight: Hanna Kim Gaggin, MD. Dr. Gaggin's research focuses on precision medicine to develop personalized, effective treatments for heart disease. Read more about her in part 2 of our series:
@HannaGaggin
@MGHHeartHealth
@MassGeneralNews
Congrats to
@LironBarPeled
from
@MGHCancerCenter
on receiving the Howard M. Goodman Fellowship for his innovative research into deciphering the role of reductive stress in cancer!
Read more about the research:
.
@WiS_MGHMartinos
was created to generate thoughtful conversation about
#gender
and cultural gaps in
#science
while providing tools and a safe environment to achieve gender
#equity
. Check out our post to get to know the people behind it all!
@MGHMartinos
To the Doctors,
Nurses,
Pharmacists,
Dentists,
Medical personnel,
EMTs,
Police officers,
Firefighters,
Grocery store workers,
Custodians,
Postal workers,
Delivery drivers,
Bus drivers,
Train conductors:
Weโll wait to start
Until you reach the finish.
While we couldn't celebrate with the usual in-person festivities, we are taking this time to reflect on and celebrate the advancements made so farโfor the
#LGBTQ
+ community in MA and around the worldโand find ways to continue spreading messages of compassion. Happy
#PrideMonth
!
Best Birthday ๐ฅณ gift ever!! I Matched ๐ฅน๐ช๐ Grateful for everyone I have met in this journey. This is for my parents, brothers, grandpas, husband, parents-in-law, mentors and friends. Thank you for pushing me up. WE MADE IT!
#Match2023
Researchers from the
@MGHCancerCenter
and colleagues have developed two new high-throughput systems that allow the study of DNA repair kinetics and the recruitment of DSBs in a 384-well plate format.
@CellReports
@MostoslavskyLab
A new study from
@FaustmanLab
has found that a decades-old generic vaccine for tuberculosis can lower blood sugar levels to near normal in patients with type 1
#diabetes
:
Holiday lights of the brain!
This week's image of the week is Convergence, Glioblastoma by Toshiro Hara, PhD!
Department: Molecular Pathology
PI: Mario Suvร , MD, PhD
Category: A Closer Look
Equipment/scale: Confocal microscopy, 20x