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To give employees ample time to celebrate the holidays with friends and family, the ӳ����ý will close from Monday, December 23, 2013 to Wednesday, January 1, 2014. It will reopen on Thursday, January 2, 2014.

Our websites, of course, will still be up and running during the closing, allowing researchers all over the globe to continue accessing data, software, tools, and more.

The ӳ����ý is pleased to announce the latest class of Merkin Institute Fellows. The ӳ����ý’s first endowed fellowship, the Merkin Institute Fellows program was established in 2012 by Dr. Richard Merkin to provides sustained support for some of the most promising and ambitious scientists pursuing bold research at the ӳ����ý. The 2013-2014 recipients represent three of the ӳ����ý’s fastest rising stars: Sangeeta Bhatia, John Doench, and Angela Koehler.

The Boston Globe has once again listed the ӳ����ý among the “” in Massachusetts. It is the fourth year in a row that the institute, which prides itself on its interdisciplinary community and collaborative spirit, has earned the honor, which recognizes workplace satisfaction.

For the last five years, scientists at the ӳ����ý have been helping generate a catalog of the trillions of microorganisms living on – and in – the human body. We now know that these passengers, collectively known as the microbiome, are not merely cargo; they have physiologic effects, both positive and detrimental, on their human hosts.