Thanks to you and your generous support, our MGH Research Scholars are accomplishing extraordinary things each day. Together, we’re taking new discoveries as far as we can, as fast as we can — toward new possibilities in disease prediction, prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
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Ingrid Bassett, MD, MPH, Weissman Family MGH Research Scholar 2018-2023, has been selected as a co-principal investigator of RECOVER, a national effort to understand, prevent and treat long COVID — symptoms such as brain fog, fatigue, muscle pain, shortness of breath and others that persist long after SARS-COV-2 infection.
Dr. Bassett is helping to lead a consortium of six Boston-area hospitals in a collaborative effort to learn more about long COVID’s effects across diverse patient populations. Read more.
Olivia Okereke, MD, MS,
Terry and Jean de Gunzburg MGH Research Scholar 2021-2026, has been named inaugural director of the MGH Psychiatry Center for Racial Equity and Justice. The center will support the department’s goals of creating an antiracist culture, increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion, and creating structural solutions to core challenges.
Dr. Okereke is a researcher in the fields of Alzheimer’s disease and mental health in aging. She was the senior author on a recent study examining the impact of geography, race and ethnicity on late-life depression severity in a large cohort of US adults.
Read more.
Reducing the Tragic Toll of Opioid Overdoses in Boston’s Homeless Population
Travis Baggett, MD, MPH,
MGH Research Scholar 2021-2026, was the senior author of a recent study looking at trends in overdose deaths in Boston’s homeless population over the past two decades.
The study identified a sharp rise in overdose deaths due to synthetic opioids and polysubstance use (the use of opioids along with another substance such as cocaine) and highlights the need to improve access to evidence-based treatments for opioid use disorder in this vulnerable population.
Read more.
Untangling the Negative Feedback Loop Between Cardiovascular Disease and Bone Marrow Function
A team led by
Matthias Nahrendorf, MD, PhD,
Richard Moerschner Endowed MGH Research Institute Chair in Men's Health and
Weissman Family MGH Research Scholar 2014-2019, recently published a study showing that cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes remodeling of the bone marrow’s vascular niche, leading to altered functioning and an overproduction of white blood cells.
These additional white blood cells increase inflammation in the body and further increase the risk of negative CVD outcomes. New strategies to reduce white blood cell population could improve outcomes in CVD patients, Nahrendorf and colleagues write.
Read more.
Research Institute Advisory Council Leaders Honor a Mass General Legend
Two Massachusetts General Hospital volunteer leaders from different eras — Charles Sanders, MD, former chair of the Mass General Research Institute Advisory Council, and David Altshuler, MD, PhD, current Council chair — have joined philanthropic forces to name an MGH Research Scholar title in memory of former hospital president and chair of the Board of Trustees, John Endicott Lawrence.
Learn more about their efforts and meet
Laurence Rahme, PhD, MSc,
John Lawrence MGH Research Scholar 2020-2025, who is developing new strategies for antibiotic-resistant infections.
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