Lots of possibilities for assaying live cells in/ex situ - track spatiotemporal dynamics in situ, measure biophysical and/or omic cellular features, link to functional outputs, and more! HST Broad Institute MIT Chemistry MIT IMES Ragon Institute Koch Institute at MIT Harvard Medical School

Are you registered for the 2021 AIDS Walk & Run Boston? Here's an AIDS Walk Boston fundraising tip: Lead by example! Make a self-donation to your fundraising goal to show your commitment, and share with your friends and family. Register today at walk.aac.org!

Ragon Member Gaurav Gaiha used his structure-based network analysis to help identify SARS-CoV-2 epitopes that may be good candidates for a T cell vaccine. Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Another reason to get vaccinated!

Congrats to Balazs Lab and Wilfredo F. Garcia-Beltran, MD, PhD on their #covid Cell paper on Moderna boosters! cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Great recognition for Xu Yu Ragon Institute, and her international team, from Annals of Internal Medicine-- their report characterizing an HIV cure was named one of the most influential papers of 2021! t acpjournals.org/journal/aim/be…

Congrats to Xu Yu, Mathias Lictherfeld and the rest of the Ragon Institute and broader team on their Cell publication on a roadmap for potential HIV cure! science.org/content/articl…

Booster needed to neutralize the fast-spreading variant weforum.org/agenda/2022/01… via World Economic Forum Congrats to Ragon Institute investigators Balazs Lab and Wilfredo F. Garcia-Beltran, MD, PhD on their cell paper showing that booster really helps against omicron!

Congrats to our talented technician Angela Zhang (and her mentor Xiaolong Li) on her first first-author publication on a new way to crystalize TCR! mdpi.com/2073-4409/11/3…. .

Wastewater data in Massachusetts from the MWRA looks like maybe the worst is passing, incredible increase and now drop in concentration of COVID RNA:

The Evavold lab is hiring a #postdoc. Come join us Ragon Institute and Harvard Medical School to add your diverse experiences to our goals of discovering new regulation in #metabolism, innate #immunity, and cell #death through #synbio and unbiased screens. partners.taleo.net/careersection/…

Paul Farmer, THE person who made health into a human right and inspired legions to take action, has died. The world weeps.

Great meeting Ragon Institute with AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh and Terry Ragon. Thanks for all AAAS does to promote science, MMed now as much as ever

Future home of ⁦Ragon Institute⁩ in the heart of Kendall Square and ⁦Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)⁩! Can’t wait for Q1 of 2024!

Congrats to Yu & Lichterfeld Labs @ Ragon Ragon Institute for a great opinion piece on #hivcure in Trends in Immunology this month-- time to reassess "latency" with real implications for cure strategies.

Let the holidays begin! Spectacular performance by the Ragon Institute choir at our Winter Holiday Party. Kudos to Choirmaster and NK cell maven Wilfredo Garcia-Beltran and the rest of the harmonious members!

Toured our new building ⁦Ragon Institute⁩ with the chairs of our SAB David Baltimore and John Wherry and our Scientific Director Facundo Batista. One year to opening!

The view from my current office of a corner of the new home of the ⁦Ragon Institute⁩—to be open and recruiting for early 2024. Can’t wait!