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Two former Yale postdocs are now working side‑by‑side at Harvard Medical School to solve difficult questions in medicine. Ruth Franklin, assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology, studies how the immune system works to promote lung repair and prevent diseases such as cancer and fibrosis. Ruaidhri Jackson, assistant professor of immunology, is discovering new proteins that could provide more insight into cancer, autoimmunity, and infection biology. They lead neighboring labs that

A month before starting medical school, Claire Brown was diagnosed with cancer. The MD-PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology - HST Program was already passionate about cancer research. Living through the disease underscored the importance of the work. “I would really like to actually take an idea all the way from its inception to bringing it into the actual clinic and seeing it change people’s lives,” Brown said. Brown looks forward to spending more time in the hospital a