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Our Team

We are a computational genomics and bioinformatics group in the Division of Genetics and Genomics at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. We are also affiliated with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Alice is a faculty member of the Harvard Bioinformatics and Integrative...

Application for Faculty Affiliation

Affiliation with the Division Over 100 Harvard faculty are affiliated with the Harvard Medical School Division of Nutrition. Faculty Affiliates and their Trainees working in nutrition enjoy the following benefits: Personal Profile Page on this website Ability to highlight descriptions of important...

Research

Overview Our lab studies the role of endothelial cells and pericytes in vasculogenic and/or angiogenic diseases. We have three main areas: (1) vascular tumors (infantile hemangioma) and (2)vascular malformations (e.g., capillary malformation), (3) endothelial to mesenchymal transition (EndMT) in...

Endothelial to Mesenchymal Transition in Heart Valves

We study endothelial plasticity in cardiac valves and how this relates to the ability of valves to adapt to both normal and pathologic events. We showed that valve endothelial cells (VECs) from aortic, pulmonic and mitral valves can recapitulate processes that occur during valve development - e.g...

Lab Members

Joyce Bischoff, PhD Principle Investigator Joyce Bischoff received an A.B. in chemistry from Duke University and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Washington University School of Medicine. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. She joined the Surgical...

History

Founding of the Department Harvard's Department of Nutrition was founded in 1942 as a result of a generous grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Initially, it was located in the Department of Biochemistry in Harvard Medical School, but it was administered in the School of Public Health. In 1946...

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is comprised of Division of Nutrition faculty and help guide the division in fulfilling its mission. Christopher Duggan, MD, MPH, Director Elsie M. Taveras, MD, MPH, Associate Director

HSPH Nutrition Seminars

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Department of Nutrition holds a weekly Monday Nutrition Seminar Series every Monday from 1:00 to 2:00 pm throughout the academic year. The talks are varied, but they highlight the many different aspects of cutting-edge research that is currently being...

Longwood Nutrition Seminars 2018 - 2019

Click HERE for PDF of program Click on a blue title to view a Webcast video of the lecture. October 2, 2018 Rethinking Obesity: Bending the Growth Curve of an Unforgiving Disease Webcast video available. Lee M. Kaplan, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Director, Obesity...