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Founding of the Department: The roots of Harvard’s program in Nutrition run from the 1940s. Harvard's Department of Nutrition was founded in 1942 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Initially, the department was located in the Department of Biochemistry at Harvard Medical School, but it...

The Division is lead by Dr. Chris Duggan and he is assisted by Associate Director, Dr. Elsie Traves.

Program Manager: Coral Rudie Administrative Support: Barbara Ainsley

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We study a family of endocytic adaptor proteins called epsins, which are central to a number of important diseases in humans, including atherosclerosis, diabetes, cancer, and obesity. We have developed novel conditional mouse strains that have aided in the detailed characterization of epsins and...

Faculty development publications about our programs (selected) Branch WT, Chou CL, Farber NJ, Hatem D, Keenan C, Makoul G, Quinn M, Salazar W, Sillman J, Stuber M, Wilkerson LA, Mathew G, Fost M. Faculty development to enhance humanistic teaching and role modeling: A collaborative study at eight...