Immunotherapy for Cancer Treatment
This video describes a newer form of cancer treatment called immunotherapy that seeks to boost the patient’s immune system to fight back... Learn More
From the wings to center stage: How inflammation triggers a multitude of diseases – Longwood Seminar
Streamed live on April 18, 2017 Inflammation is one of the body’s first lines of defense against disease. But there is growing... Learn More
Speeding the Drug Development Process: Learning from Team Science and New Partnerships
A talk by George D. Demetri, MD, director, Ludwig Center at Dana-Farber/Harvard; associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; director, Center for... Learn More
Science Matters with Nancy Keating
Nancy Keating, associate professor of health care policy, studies cancer treatment from diagnosis to end of life care. This video is part... Learn More
A Better Ending : A new beginning for the end of life — Longwood Seminar
Talking about death with family members or health care providers can be frightening and uncomfortable, but these conversations are necessary. In this... Learn More
Science Matters with Felicia Knaul
Felicia Knaul, associate professor of global health and social medicine, works to improve cancer-related policies globally and especially in low and middle... Learn More
Same Cells, Different Fates
Researchers in the lab of Harvard Medical School Professor of Systems Biology Peter Sorger have discovered that the genetic identity of a... Learn More
Unraveling the Mysteries of Aging
Research conducted by David Sinclair and colleagues shows that, in mice, treatment with the NAD precursor NMN mitigates age-related DNA damage and... Learn More
Entosis: A Cell-in-Cell Invasion and Death Process
When human cells wander in suspension, free of their normal attachments, many of them launch invasions into their neighbors. These “homeless” cells... Learn More
Found in Translation: The Tale of the Cancer Drug Bortezomib (Velcade)
The story of the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib, or Velcade, ended happily, if not where anyone expected, when a collaborative effort to reverse... Learn More
Panning for Therapeutic Gold: Cancer Genetics — Longwood Seminar
The end of 2011 marked the 40-year anniversary of President Nixon declaring the War on Cancer. Though a cure has not yet... Learn More
Timing Cancer Treatment
Researchers led by members of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School had been studying how silencing MDMX, an oncogene,... Learn More
What Cancer Cells Don’t Want Us to Know
A talk by Galit Lahav, PhD, associate professor of systems biology, Harvard Medical School. Moderated by Freda C. Lewis-Hall, MD, DFAPA, executive... Learn More
Invaders in Action: Ovarian Cancer Cells Bully Their Way Through Tissue
A team led by Joan Brugge, the Louise Foote Pfeiffer Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, recently shed light on... Learn More
Talks@12: Immunotherapy: An Answer to Cancer?
Advances in immunotherapies for cancer have spawned new treatments that trigger the immune system to attack the tumor, delivering dramatic benefits to... Learn More
An Answer to Cancer? Using the immune system to fight cancer — Longwood Seminar
Oncologists are turning to a novel form of therapy to combat cancer: retraining or reengineering the immune system to quash tumor growth.... Learn More