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Two new fellows will join labs at HMS-affiliated hospitals beginning spring 2026.
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Former Bertarelli-funding investigator published paper on successful gene therapy treatment of deafness in humans
Zheng-Yi Chen, an investigator previously funded by the Bertarelli research program, is part of a team that has achieved successful gene therapy treatment of deafness in human patients! His paper, describing delivery of the OTOF coding sequence with dual...
Bertarelli 2022 Symposium Understanding and Conquering Pain
The 2022 Bertarelli Symposium at Harvard Medical School brought together an international group of experts to discuss new findings on the causes of acute and chronic pain and examine potential new strategies for treatment. View AGENDA for more details; a...
Publication in Nature Neuroscience
A new paper, "Correlations enhance the behavioral readout of neural population activity in association cortex" was published in Nature Neuroscience. Read more.
Publication in Nature
Paper published in Nature Journal July 2020 by postdocs partially funded through the Bertarelli Foundation: Structure and flexibility in cortical representations of odour space
Meet our new Bertarelli Fellows
Bertarelli Fellows are conducting research on the HMS quad or HMS-affiliated labs. https://bertarelli.hms.harvard.edu/education.
Bertarelli Fellows are first authors on published papers
Two former Bertarelli Fellows in Daniel Polley's lab, Charles-Henri Vila and Sandra Romero, both published first author papers in peer-reviewed journals based on their work in the Bertarelli Program. Vila's research was published in the Journal of Neural...
Bertarelli Foundation Video on HMS Collaborative Grants
The Bertarelli Foundation has awarded four collaborative research grants focused on understanding and treating some of the most devastating sensory disorders, including deafness, blindness and pain. View video on Neuroscience for Sensory Disorders.
Corey paper on the dimeric structure and physiology of the TMC1 channel was selected for Neuron's Best of 2017-2018.
David Corey and Jeffrey Holt paper, TMC1 Forms the Pore of Mechanosensory Transduction Channels in Vertebrate Inner Ear Hair Cells, was selected for Neuron’s Best of 2017-2018. The choices were made based on the most accessed papers in the year from Oct...
New published paper with support from the Bertarelli Program: Improved TMC1 gene therapy restores hearing and balance in mice with genetic inner ear disorders
Authors: Carl A. Nist-Lund, Bifeng Pan, Amy Patterson, Yukako Asai, Tianwen Chen, Wu Zhou, Hong Zhu, Sandra Romero, Jennifer Resnik, Daniel B. Polley, Gwenaelle S. Géléoc, & Jeffrey R. HoltAbstract: Fifty percent of inner ear disorders are caused by...
Scientific American Article Out of the Silence: Gene Therapy Tackles a Common Birth Defect: Deafness by Dina Fine Maron
Hearing loss is one of the most common birth defects, and genetic flaws are frequently the cause. After false starts, researchers are making progress toward treating deafness with gene therapy. This in-depth piece explores the latest research in gene...
Announcing Bertarelli Collaborative Awards for Sensory Disorders
The Bertarelli Foundation has awarded collaborative research grants to four teams of scientists representing Harvard Medical School its affiliated teaching hospitals, and the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology in Basel, Switzerland, all...