New Science Fellowships Web Page
HILS has just launched a comprehensive new web page which lists funding resources available to our enrolled life sciences PhDs.  Because HILS PhDs have access to a wide array of 'outside' predoctoral science fellowship funds (e.g., from non-Harvard funding sources), we've compiled a directory of them on the HILS website--sortable by alphabet, interest group, application date, and PhD study stage.  These non-Harvard resources can be used to help support--or even augment--the University's financial aid package, and we encourage you to look them over. 

Questions About HILS? 

If you need more information about the Harvard Integrated Life Sciences initiative, don’t hesitate to contact HILS Dean John McNally (jmcnally@fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-0616) or HILS Staff Assistant Matt Wallace (hils@fas.harvard.edu, 617-495-9500)

A Love Story: Hadar Malca

If there’s one thing that graduate students can count on: Life happens, even when you’re in the middle of your PhD program.

Hadar Malca, a third-year PhD candidate in molecular and cellular biology (MCB), is a new mom. So she’s been on maternity leave for a few months and returns to the lab this spring.

She’s learned firsthand that Harvard and its faculty are determined to support their young scholars and scientists in any way possible, and Hadar speaks fondly of the support she’s received from her program and, especially, from her PI or principal investigator, Nicole Francis, an assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology. “She helped me during my pregnancy, telling me not to worry [about the work] when I wasn’t feeling well,” says Hadar. “She was really sensitive." (read more)

Because groundbreaking research in the life sciences is now more interdisciplinary than ever, Harvard has created the Integrated Life Sciences (HILS) Graduate Program.  HILS integrates 12 graduate programs across 4 Harvard faculties, and oversees all PhD education in the life sciences.

To learn more about HILS click here.