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The Faces Behind the Science: Meet Some of Mass General Brigham’s Postdoctoral Researchers
During Postdoctoral Research Fellows Appreciation Week, we’re shining a spotlight on the talented scientists helping drive discovery across Mass General Brigham. Meet the postdoctoral researchers advancing our understanding of cancer, neuroscience, heart disease, and more while sharing the personal passions, experiences, and motivations that fuel their work both inside and outside the lab.
Researchers Unplugged: Meet the Researcher Tracking Prostate Cancer’s Escape Routes
As a postdoctoral research fellow in the Miyamoto Lab at Mass General Brigham, Buse Cevatemre Yildirim, PhD, studies tumor cells that circulate in the bloodstream to understand why advanced prostate cancer can become resistant to treatment. In this Researchers Unplugged Q&A, she shares her passion for cancer research, creative scientific storytelling, and life outside the lab.
Researchers Unplugged: Meet the Researcher Working to Detect Lung Disease Before It Starts
Meet the postdoctoral research fellow at who is studying the earliest signs of pulmonary fibrosis in people with a family history of the disease. Learn how her research could help detect lung disease sooner, improve patient outcomes, and advance new treatments, while getting to know the scientist behind the work.
Researchers Unplugged: Meet the Researcher Studying How the Timing of Our Meals Shapes Health
How does the timing of your meals affect your health? Meet Ioannis Lempesis, a postdoctoral researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital whose work examines how the body’s internal clock influences metabolism and could lead to new strategies for preventing obesity and diabetes.
Five Things to Know About Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome, the New Name for PCOS
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is now known as Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), a name change that is intended to better reflect the symptoms of the disease and reduce barriers to diagnosis.
Hip Fractures: What to Know About Prevention, Treatment and Recovery
Hip fractures are among the most serious injuries affecting older adults, often leading to loss of independence, reduced quality of life, and increased risk of death.
Past Prescriptions: How a Brigham and Women’s Hospital Team Helped an Orangutan With a Health Scare Back in 1985
Welcome to Past Prescriptions, your occasional trip down MGB Memory Lane! With more than 200 years of history across our academic medical system, there are lots of unique stories to be found in back issues of newspapers and archived hospital communications. This month we’re taking the MGB Delorean back to 1985, the year when the…
Researchers Unplugged: Meet Julia Billups, PhD, a Researcher Studying How Brain Fats May Shape Parkinson’s Disease
Meet the brain researcher who loves outings with her dog and husband and participating in her church community.
Congratulations to the 2026 Class of the Bridging Academia and Industry Education Program
This unique training program provides early stage academic investigators with the skills and resources to work translationally with industry.
Peeling Back the Layers: How Physiology, Curiosity and Mentorship Shape Dr. Romal Jassar’s Approach to Neonatal Care
Unlike most patients, newborns cannot voice what hurts. The clues rarely arrive in order, and answers are uncovered one layer at a time.