Women in Science Archives

How One Mass General Brigham Surgeon Is Making Training Safer During Pregnancy

By Randy Young | May 15, 2026

Erica Rangel is an advocate for female surgeons working to balance the dual demands of career and family.

By Brian Burns | June 24, 2025

The awards provide investigators with $60,000 for two years to assist in maintaining their research efforts while caring for a young family.

How Shannon Tessier, PhD, and the team at the Perfusion Lab are studying heart reanimation, to increase potential donor hearts available.

By Brian Burns | July 29, 2024

The Claflin awards were established at Mass General to recognize and support women researchers during a critical time in their careers.

For more than a century after it was established in 1873, Mass General’s School of Nursing helped to grow the field of nursing in the US.

How Andrea Edlow, MD, MSc and her team are studying immunization during pregnancy, and its role in maternal and fetal health.

Mass General Researcher Caroline Mitchell, MD, MPH, discusses the barriers to studying women’s health topics.

Mass General Suzanne Koven, MD, MFA, discusses her recent perspective looking at the limited options medical residents who wish to get pregnant have.

By Siddharth Valecha | March 28, 2023

In this Q&A, we pick the brain of Dr. Lans about her latest research article, Health Literacy in Orthopedic Surgery: A Systematic Review.

Erin Morrissey is running the Boston Marathon to support Mass General for Children and pay back the kindness she received as a patient.