Past Events

The BRI is going bottled-water free! As it has been stated “more than 17 million barrels of oil are required to produce enough plastic water bottles to meet America’s annual demand for bottled water” and every year, 8 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean.  We hope as an institution and department to become more environmentally friendly. We encourage other departments to do the same! Please don’t forget to bring your filled reusable water bottles to all of our BRI events. Thank you.

The Executive Committee of the Brigham Research Institute (BRI) would like to invite you to attend the Associate Professor Meeting from 9:00 – 10:00 AM on Wednesday, July 14th.

The BRI’s overarching mission is to accelerate discoveries that improve human health; supporting strategies include fostering groundbreaking, interdepartmental, and interdisciplinary research, ranging from basic fundamental studies to clinical innovations.  We strive to provide a clear voice (internally and externally) for the entire BWH research community, raise the profile of research at BWH, develop mission-centric collaborations with external entities and engage the scientific community in fundraising.

We need your help, as research faculty and trainees, making sure that the BRI is working to address the needs and concerns of researchers across the institution.  These meetings provide opportunities for investigators from across BWH departments to meet with the BRI Executive Committee and provide feedback directly.

Once you have registered, we will send you a confirmation with the Zoom link.

If you have suggestions for discussion topics feel free to send them to us in advance by clicking here.

The Moonshot R&D Project is a new project to promote challenging research and development (moonshot) based on bold ideas that are not extensions of conventional technologies, aiming to create disruptive innovations originating in Japan. AMED will promote research and development to achieve the moonshot goal 7: “Realization of sustainable care systems to overcome major diseases by 2040, for enjoying one’s life with relief and release from health concerns until 100 years old”. We will hold a kick-off symposium to launch the five R&D projects of this program. We will introduce the society that this program aims for and the aims and contents of each project’s R&D in an easy-to-understand manner. In the panel discussion, the advisors will ask questions about each project to deepen the participants’ understanding.

We sincerely look forward to your participation.

Join the Brigham Research Institute (BRI) and the Office for Research Careers (ORC) at our virtual event to celebrate our research community and the 15th anniversary of the BRI! This virtual gathering is dedicated to researchers and research staff who find solutions to complex problems and generate a culture of innovation.

We will also recognize research staff nominated by their colleagues for contributing to the COVID recovery effort and excelling during the research lockdown this past summer. Additionally, we will acknowledge researchers who volunteered their time to serve on our BRI review committees. 150 research staff attendees will receive a digital gift card to show our appreciation!

Sunil Eappen, MD, Brigham Health interim President, will be announcing the recipients of the 2021 President’s Scholar Awards. These annual awards honor assistant or associate professors who have made noteworthy contributions in their field of research and who have exceptional potential. Each distinguished awardee will receive $100,000 per year for three years. We encourage you to join us in congratulating our three new outstanding scholars.

The recipients of the 9th Annual BRIght Futures Prize will be announced. Join us in a first look of the winning projects as we celebrate this exceptional achievement. The BRIght Futures Prizes support investigators across the Brigham Research Institute (BRI) as they work to answer provocative questions or solve grand problems in medicine.

We hope that you are able to join us to celebrate the accomplishments of you and your fellow researchers and research staff!

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the BRI inbox at bwhbri@partners.org.

This event will be recorded. 

WHO: Haley Bridger, Senior Science Communication Specialist, Office of Strategic Communication

WHAT: What Makes the News for Researchers

Have you ever wondered how newly published research makes headlines in The Boston Globe or gets coverage on the nightly news? Join senior science communication specialist Haley Bridger from the Office of Strategic Communication to find out what happens behind the scenes to help move research from the pages of a scientific journal into the media spotlight. Find out how to work with the Office of Strategic to increase the visibility of your research, ace an interview and more.

To ensure that women benefit equally from all medical advances.

Medical research and therapeutic development still do not account adequately for sex and gender differences, resulting in suboptimal outcomes for the health of women and society at large.

Our purpose is to convene an engaged multi-stakeholder group of experts across the bioscience ecosystem to share and celebrate recent advancements for the health of women. We will promote impactful discussions on gender equity in medicine to further advance the health of women through innovative translational research.

Event will be recorded.

Speaker: Dr. Robert Langer, Sc.D., Institute Professor at MIT

John P. Merrill, a leading pioneer in the fields of renal immunology and dialysis, was one of the key figures who led the world’s first successful kidney transplant in 1954 at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. In tribute to the life and legacy of Dr. Merrill, world-class scientists with exceptional, innovative, and transformative approaches to impactful research in the fields of transplantation, immunology, and bioengineering are invited to give presentations at the John P. Merrill Seminar series hosted by the Transplantation Research Center at BWH. For more information on the series, please contact Naima Banouni at nbanouni@bwh.harvard.edu.

The Executive Committee of the Brigham Research Institute (BRI) would like to invite you to attend the Assistant Professor Meeting from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM on Wednesday, June 2nd. 

The BRI’s overarching mission is to accelerate discoveries that improve human health; supporting strategies include fostering groundbreaking, interdepartmental, and interdisciplinary research, ranging from basic fundamental studies to clinical innovations.  We strive to provide a clear voice (internally and externally) for the entire BWH research community, raise the profile of research at BWH, develop mission-centric collaborations with external entities and engage the scientific community in fundraising.

We need your help, as research faculty and trainees, making sure that the BRI is working to address the needs and concerns of researchers across the institution.  These meetings provide opportunities for investigators from across BWH departments to meet with the BRI Executive Committee and provide feedback directly.

Once you have registered, we will send you a confirmation with the Zoom link.

If you have suggestions for discussion topics feel free to send them to us in advance by clicking here.

The Cardiovascular, Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders (CVDM) Research Center cordially invites you to participate in its 9th annual obesity incubator session. The goal of this session is to bring together BWH clinicians and researchers working in the fields of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease to address this challenging public health crisis by promoting cross-collaborative research efforts and stimulating new ideas for further investigation.

To promote vibrant scientific discussions, the plenary session will feature short talks by selected junior investigators in the field of obesity research, followed by a keynote presentation from Frank A.J.L. Scheer, PhD, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Director of the Medical Chronobiology Program (MCP) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Boston. Dr. Scheer’s work focuses on influences of the endogenous circadian system and its disruption—such as with shift work—on cardiovascular, pulmonary, and metabolic regulation and disease states, including hypertension, asthma, obesity and diabetes.

Kid and family friendly event!

Now is your exclusive chance to explore a COVID-19 research laboratory! Scientist, Dr. Sara Suliman and her team will take you on a guided tour of the lab itself, demonstrate how to put on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and run an experiment right before your eyes. Since the early days of the pandemic, our Mass General Brigham (MGB) researchers have dedicated much of their time to the MGB Center for COVID Innovation (MGB CCI). It was launched in 2020 to help coordinate, facilitate and rapidly develop diagnostic innovations that will help stop the spread of SARS-CoV2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, among patients, front line health care workers and the community. The lab you will be interacting with at the Cambridge Science Festival evaluates potential COVID-19 diagnostic technologies that help to consistently and accurately test whether someone is positive or negative for COVID-19.

Event is hosted by the Brigham Research Institute and MGB CCI Diagnostic Pillar. The event will be recorded and live captioned.

Agenda:

Introduction:

David Walt, PhD, Co-Director, MGB CCI

Sara Suliman, PhD, Principal Investigator (PI), MGB CCI Diagnostic Accelerator

Lab Tour:

Sara Suliman, PhD, Principal Investigator (PI), MGB CCI Diagnostic Accelerator

Q&A:

David Walt, PhD, Co-Director, MGB CCI

Sara Suliman, PhD, Principal Investigator (PI), MGB CCI Diagnostic Accelerator

Thank you to Dr. Suliman’s team (see names below) for their hard work.

Sujata Chalise, Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pokhara University, Nepal, Research Assistant, MGB CCI Diagnostics Accelerator

Esmarline J. De León Peralta, Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, Research Technician, MGB CCI Diagnostic Accelerator; Research Engineering Technician, MGH Wellman Center for Photomedicine

Zakary Ganhadeiro, Candidate for Bachelor of Science of Cell & Molecular Biology, Northeastern University; Research Assistant, MGB CCI Diagnostics Accelerator

Sally Zhou, Candidate for Bachelor of Science, Northeastern University; Research Assistant at MGB CCI Diagnostics Accelerator

The Executive Committee of the Brigham Research Institute (BRI) would like to invite you to attend the Professor Meeting (Follow-up to February’s Meeting) from 9:00 – 10:00 AM on Monday, April 12th.

The BRI’s overarching mission is to accelerate discoveries that improve human health; supporting strategies include fostering groundbreaking, interdepartmental, and interdisciplinary research, ranging from basic fundamental studies to clinical innovations.  We strive to provide a clear voice (internally and externally) for the entire BWH research community, raise the profile of research at BWH, develop mission-centric collaborations with external entities and engage the scientific community in fundraising.

We need your help, as research faculty and trainees, making sure that the BRI is working to address the needs and concerns of researchers across the institution.  These meetings provide opportunities for investigators from across BWH departments to meet with the BRI Executive Committee and provide feedback directly.

Once you have registered, we will send you a confirmation with the Zoom link.

If you have suggestions for discussion topics feel free to send them to us in advance by clicking here.

The BRI is going bottled-water free! As it has been stated “more than 17 million barrels of oil are required to produce enough plastic water bottles to meet America’s annual demand for bottled water” and every year, 8 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean.  We hope as an institution and department to become more environmentally friendly. We encourage other departments to do the same! Please don’t forget to bring your filled reusable water bottles to all of our BRI events. Thank you.

The Executive Committee of the Brigham Research Institute (BRI) would like to invite you to attend the Instructor Meeting from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM on Tuesday, April 6th. 

The BRI’s overarching mission is to accelerate discoveries that improve human health; supporting strategies include fostering groundbreaking, interdepartmental, and interdisciplinary research, ranging from basic fundamental studies to clinical innovations.  We strive to provide a clear voice (internally and externally) for the entire BWH research community, raise the profile of research at BWH, develop mission-centric collaborations with external entities and engage the scientific community in fundraising.

We need your help, as research faculty and trainees, making sure that the BRI is working to address the needs and concerns of researchers across the institution.  These meetings provide opportunities for investigators from across BWH departments to meet with the BRI Executive Committee and provide feedback directly.

Once you have registered, we will send you a confirmation with the Zoom link.

If you have suggestions for discussion topics feel free to send them to us in advance by clicking here.

On Wednesday, March 10 at 4:00 pm ET, the Harvard AI in Healthcare Group and the Harvard Health Innovation Network are hosting Commercializing AI in Healthcare. This webinar features an expert panel of Harvard alumni and industry leaders, from entrepreneurs to engineers, discussing the latest applications of AI and machine learning set to accelerate healthcare. Featured speakers include:
Mark Homer, Renee Yao, Iksha Herr and Wardah Inam.  
Register Here

The Executive Committee of the Brigham Research Institute (BRI) would like to invite you to attend the Postdoc Meeting from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM on Wednesday, March 10th. 

The BRI’s overarching mission is to accelerate discoveries that improve human health; supporting strategies include fostering groundbreaking, interdepartmental, and interdisciplinary research, ranging from basic fundamental studies to clinical innovations.  We strive to provide a clear voice (internally and externally) for the entire BWH research community, raise the profile of research at BWH, develop mission-centric collaborations with external entities and engage the scientific community in fundraising.

We need your help, as research faculty and trainees, making sure that the BRI is working to address the needs and concerns of researchers across the institution.  These meetings provide opportunities for postdocs from across BWH departments to meet with the BRI Executive Committee and provide feedback directly.

Once you have registered, we will send you a confirmation with Zoom link.

If you have suggestions for discussion topics feel free to send them to us in advance by clicking here.

This event will be recorded. 

WHO: Tomas Maira-Litran, PhD and Jinjun Shi, PhD

WHAT: Science Behind mRNA Vaccines