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One of the great benefits of studying life sciences through HILS is the student’s ability to use facilities throughout the University.
Many of the facilities listed under one heading are used by faculty members—and students—from across Harvard’s various Schools. For example, the Microchemistry and Proteomics Analysis Facility, located in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, is used by Medical School faculty and graduate students. They are listed separately for convenience.
Harvard provides graduate students in the life sciences with superlative facilities to conduct cutting-edge research, including:
The Medical Area in Boston comprises one of the most concentrated areas of scientific research facilities in the United States. About half of the Medical School faculty is based in pre-clinical departments on the Medical School Quadrangle.
Core facilities include:
Many faculty have their laboratories at some of the world’s premier medical research facilities, located throughout the greater Boston area, including:
Research institutes and centers include:
Core facilities include:
Harvard Core Facilities
Core Facilities (“Cores”) are shared central laboratories, each capable of performing a specific set of experimental functions that enable investigators to perform experiments more efficiently and at a more affordable cost. Cores thus facilitate research activity by providing resources and services that are beyond the means of most individual labs. Harvard is fortunate to have a world-class array of these important resources, some of which are shown above.
HILS has assembled a comprehensive reference inventory of University-wide Core Facilities that are of interest to life sciences PhD students. This listing is formatted as an excel spreadsheet, and is searchable using excel search and sorting tools.
Each Core lab observes its own set of policies and procedures; be sure to contact each Core's administrative staff to confirm its fit with your research interest and your access to it.
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.
The HILS network encompasses a wide geographical area in the Boston region, from labs at the Massachusetts General Hospital near Charles Street to the McLean Hospital campus facilities in Belmont. Luckily, there are a variety of subway trains, buses, and shuttles available to facilitate travel from one location to another.
We have compiled a list of HILS network transportation options which will keep you pointed in the right direction.
University-Wide Core Facilities Inventory
Predoctoral Fellowship Database
Transportation Options Between Facilities