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Transforming cancer treatments through bioinspired engineering and translation
February 4, 2026
Community
Dismantling the American research enterprise
January 5, 2026
Translation News
Unravel: from tools for studying pathogen tolerance to hope for rare disease patients
November 20, 2025
Translation News
How federal funds fuel life-saving innovation
November 20, 2025
Awards
Highly Cited Researchers 2025 honors nine Wyss members
November 17, 2025
Research Spotlights
Sustainable Futures: creating a healthy planet for all
November 6, 2025
Translation News
Crossing the barrier: Wyss Brain Targeting Program is delivering on its promise
October 22, 2025
Press Release
Human Organ Chip technology sets stage for pan-influenza A CRISPR RNA therapies
October 15, 2025
Press Release
Wyss Institute receives Wellcome Leap funding to develop first Human Organ Chip model for heavy menstrual bleeding
September 19, 2025
Press Release
Forging a novel therapeutic path for patients with Rett Syndrome using AI
July 2, 2025
Press Release
Precision oncology Organ Chip platform accurately and actionably predicts chemotherapy responses of patients suffering from esophageal adenocarcinoma
June 27, 2025
Press Release
Broad-spectrum coronavirus drug developed through AI-enabled dynamic modeling
June 12, 2025
Press Release
Wyss Institute at Harvard University announces appointment of Natalie Artzi to Associate Institute Director
May 29, 2025
Community
Killing science will strangle the economy
May 6, 2025
Community
Common Sense
April 25, 2025
Community
Could Trump’s War on Harvard Spell the End of U.S. Leadership in Science?
April 22, 2025
Press Release
Implantable biosensors get a major longevity boost
March 13, 2025
Community
Bringing the American Economic Flywheel to a Screeching Halt
February 13, 2025
Awards
ARPA-H-recognized iNode team seeks vital support to treat ovarian cancer with first-in-class implantable immune organs
January 30, 2025
Press Release
DARPA-ABC program supports Wyss Institute-led collaboration toward deeper understanding of anesthesia and safe drugs enabling anesthesia without the need for extensive monitoring
January 15, 2025
Awards
Wyss Institute’s iNodes team receives ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health award to advance the first implantable immune organs to treat ovarian cancer
November 12, 2024
Press Release
“Suspended animation” drug could aid organ transplantation and survival from traumatic injury
September 24, 2024
Community
Preventing pollution with bioinspired solutions
September 19, 2024
Press Release
Alzheimer’s drug may someday help save lives by inducing a state of “suspended animation”
August 22, 2024
Awards
Wyss Institute Research Collaboration Awarded ARPA-H Agreement to Develop Disease-Agnostic Immunotherapeutic RNA Platform
July 15, 2024
Translation News
Plastic Degradation Company, Breaking, Emerges from Stealth with Naturally-Derived Solution to Degrade Multiple Plastics with $10.5M in Seed Funding
April 17, 2024
Press Release
Empty “backpacks” activate the immune system against cancer
March 19, 2024
Translation News
Introducing the Wyss Lumineers Class of 2023
February 21, 2024
Press Release
Advancing precision diagnostics at the patient point-of-care
February 8, 2024
Research Spotlights
Announcing the 2024 “Faculty Focus” List
January 25, 2024
Press Release
A malaria drug treatment could save babies’ lives
December 19, 2023
Awards
Highly Cited Researchers 2023 honors 13 Wyss faculty members
November 15, 2023
Awards
Wyss Institute at Harvard University wins BARDA contract to leverage human Organ Chips to advance knowledge and drug discovery for broad range of health security threats
October 18, 2023
Press Release
Human Lung Chip leveraged to faithfully model radiation-induced lung injury
October 17, 2023
Press Release
Barrett’s esophagus modeled in a human Organ Chip
June 8, 2023
Press Release
Not all statins are created equal
May 9, 2023
Press Release
Attacking COVID-19’s moving antibody target
February 2, 2023
Translation News
Wyss Lumineers Class of 2022 announced
January 25, 2023
Translation News
Kraft Heinz partners with Wyss Institute to make sugar healthier
December 20, 2022
Press Release
Accelerating pathogen identification in infants and children with bloodstream infections
December 2, 2022
Press Release
A breakthrough in bacterial vaginosis treatment for women’s health
November 28, 2022
Awards
14 Wyss Faculty named Highly Cited Researchers in 2022
November 16, 2022
Press Release
Wyss researchers discover a new type of RNA that inhibits a broad range of viral infections
October 5, 2022
Translation News
Unravel Biosciences licenses Wyss Institute platform technology from Harvard and Tufts University to decode, model, and treat complex diseases
September 27, 2022
Translation News
The Wyss Institute’s 2022-2023 Validation Projects
September 12, 2022
Press Release
New portable diagnostic detects SARS-CoV-2 RNA and antibodies at the same time
August 8, 2022
Press Release
Don Ingber to Receive 2022 Award from Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science
August 2, 2022
Awards
Don Ingber awarded Animal Free Research UK’s Pioneer Medal
June 29, 2022
Translation News
Harvard Wyss Institute’s eRapid multiplexed biosensor technology licensed to StataDX to enable new diagnostics for neurological, cardiovascular, and renal diseases
June 24, 2022
Press Release
Modeling a devastating childhood disease on a chip
June 23, 2022
Press Release
To treat or to tolerate (pathogens), that is the question
June 16, 2022
Press Release
Fighting viruses is as easy as breathing
April 8, 2022
Press Release
The immune system is very complicated, but now, it’s on a chip
March 15, 2022
Translation News
Harvard Wyss Institute’s eRapid sensor technology licensed to Antisoma Therapeutics to facilitate infectious and immune disease and cancer diagnostics
March 7, 2022
Video/Animation
Giving old drugs new life…to save lives
February 17, 2022
Translation News
Cantex licenses intellectual property from Harvard University to develop repurposed drug identified by Wyss Institute to treat inflammatory lung diseases including COVID-19
February 23, 2022
Translation News
Wyss Lumineers Class of 2021 Announced
January 24, 2022
Press Release
Cystic fibrosis faithfully modeled in a human Lung Airway Chip
November 19, 2021
Awards
Wyss faculty members named top translational and highly cited researchers of the year
November 18, 2021
Press Release
A new tool for studying COVID’s impact on gut health
November 8, 2021
Awards
Harvard’s Wyss Institute Receives Funding Award from BARDA
September 24, 2021
Press Release
Predicting influenza virus evolution in a human Lung Airway Chip
September 20, 2021
Press Release
Wyss Institute announces Industrial Participant Program (IPP) to accelerate the development of urgently needed diagnostic capabilities
September 13, 2021
Press Release
eRapid: developing a multiplexed electrochemical diagnostic platform from the ground up
September 9, 2021
Press Release
Thinking without a brain
July 15, 2021
Press Release
Biomaterial vaccines ward off broad range of bacterial infections and septic shock
July 8, 2021
Translation News
Harvard’s Wyss Institute initiates industry partnership to facilitate brain-targeted drug delivery
June 10, 2021
Translation News
Harvard University licenses its nasal swab collection technology, developed at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School, to Mass. startup Rhinostics
May 4, 2021
Press Release
Human organ chips enable rapid drug repurposing for COVID-19
May 3, 2021
Press Release
Of mice and men and leveraging their different tolerance to pathogens
March 15, 2021
Translation News
Harvard’s Wyss Institute collaborates with GBS Inc. on the Wyss’ eRapid-based COVID-19 diagnostic to help curb the pandemic
February 17, 2021
Press Release
Detecting multiple sepsis biomarkers from whole blood – made fast, accurate, and cheap
February 12, 2021
Press Release
Wyss Founding Director Donald Ingber elected to the National Academy of Engineering
February 10, 2021
Awards
Don Ingber receives prestigious Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University
December 15, 2020
Translation News
Harvard’s Wyss Institute licenses its eRapid technology to The iQ Group Global to accelerate the development of COVID-19 diagnostics
November 30, 2020
Awards
Wyss Institute Celebrates Highly Cited and Top Translational Researchers
November 20, 2020
Translation News
Entrepreneurship in the era of COVID-19
November 17, 2020
Translation News
Harvard Wyss Institute’s nasal swab and toehold switch technologies licensed to Agile Biodetection to facilitate SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic efforts
October 5, 2020
Press Release
Hydroxychloroquine does not inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection in preclinical models
August 26, 2020
Press Release
Getting under the skin of psoriasis
July 22, 2020
Research Spotlights
Biostasis Project Advances to Next Phase of Development
July 7, 2020
Press Release
Repurposing approved drugs for COVID-19 at an accelerated pace
June 16, 2020
Research Spotlights
Wyss-designed swabs enter human trials for COVID-19
April 28, 2020
Research Spotlights
“The world changed, so we changed with it”
April 7, 2020
Press Release
The Wyss Institute’s response to COVID-19: Beating back the coronavirus
April 6, 2020
Research Spotlights
Don’t hate your guts – heal them
February 10, 2020
Press Release
Human Body-on-Chip platform enables
in vitro
prediction of drug behaviors in humans
January 27, 2020
Press Release
Successfully predicting bone marrow failure caused by drugs, radiation, and disease
January 27, 2020
Press Release
Investigating the human intestinal mucus barrier up-close and personal
December 3, 2019
Press Release
A lifeline for leaky lung cells
December 2, 2019
Awards
Wyss Institute is proud to have 11 Highly Cited Researchers in 2019
November 25, 2019
Press Release
Moving diagnostics out of the lab and into your hand
November 11, 2019
Translation News
Liver-Chip Identifies Distinct Drug Toxicities in Human, Rat, and Dog Models
November 6, 2019
Press Release
Wyss Institute Joins Global Virus Network to Help Combat Viral Threats
October 24, 2019
Community
Wyss Symposium Offers Glimpse into the Future of Diagnostics
September 26, 2019
Research Spotlights
Thinner shells for delivering gentler therapeutic bursts
September 23, 2019
Research Spotlights
Overhauling diagnostics for better patient care
September 17, 2019
Translation News
Wyss Institute and Miraki Innovation Unveil BOA Biomedical to Reduce Sepsis Deaths
September 10, 2019
Press Release
Wyss Institute Faculty Curate “Selects” Exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
July 9, 2019
Press Release
Enhanced human Blood-Brain Barrier Chip performs
in vivo
-like drug and antibody transport
June 13, 2019
Press Release
Hansjörg Wyss, Harvard M.B.A. ’65, Gives Unprecedented Third Major Gift to Harvard to Support the Wyss Institute’s Mission to Develop and Commercialize World-Changing Technologies
June 7, 2019
Video/Animation
Saving the Planet with Robots, Microbes, and Nanotechnology
June 5, 2019
Press Release
Organ Chips Featured at Barbican Centre in London
May 16, 2019
Press Release
Human gut microbiome physiology can now be studied
in vitro
using Organ Chip technology
May 13, 2019
Press Release
Blurring the Line Between Science, Art, and Design
May 10, 2019
Press Release
Human microbiome metabolites tip the scale in intestinal
E. coli
infections
March 20, 2019
Research Spotlights
Harnessing Nature to Beat Cancer
February 28, 2019
Press Release
Platelet “Decoys” Outsmart Both Clots and Cancer
February 13, 2019
Awards
Wyss Institute Director Donald Ingber Wins Grand Challenge Funding from Cancer Research UK
January 23, 2019
Awards
Eight Wyss faculty among most highly cited researchers in 2018
December 18, 2018
Press Release
Harvard’s Wyss Institute commences multidisciplinary project to identify mechanisms and means to induce a state of suspended animation
December 17, 2018
Awards
Donald Ingber appointed to Friedrich Merz Guest Professorship at Goethe University
December 5, 2018
Awards
Sasan Jalili-Firoozinezhad honored with 2018 Lush Young Researcher award
November 19, 2018
Awards
FDA expands award to Wyss Institute for radiation treatment studies using Organ Chips
November 1, 2018
Research Spotlights
Fewer steps in the lab, one more leap for organs-on-chips
October 29, 2018
Research Spotlights
“Spanning the divide” between science and art
October 22, 2018
Awards
Wyss Institute Receives Grant from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
October 17, 2018
Community
9th Annual Wyss International Symposium: Molecular Robotics
September 28, 2018
Press Release
Taking the brain apart to put it all together again
August 20, 2018
Press Release
Kidney podocytes, all grown up
July 11, 2018
Research Spotlights
Human intestine on-a-chip: state-of-the-art and into the future
May 3, 2018
Translation News
Predicting side effects before they happen
May 1, 2018
Research Spotlights
Can molecular modeling go quantum?
April 12, 2018
Press Release
A new model for an old killer
March 8, 2018
Press Release
The “architecture of life” described by computer modeling
March 8, 2018
Press Release
A gut reaction…on a chip
February 14, 2018
Press Release
True to type: From human biopsy to complex gut physiology on a chip
February 13, 2018
Awards
International team including Wyss scientists shortlisted for Cancer Research UK’s Grand Challenge
February 8, 2018
Press Release
Stop the clots, spare the coagulation
January 15, 2018
Press Release
Art advancing science at the nanoscale
October 18, 2017
Press Release
Lung cancer research gets a breath of fresh air
October 10, 2017
Community
Symposium on Therapeutic Organ Engineering
September 26, 2017
Community
The Wyss Institute Model
September 16, 2017
Press Release
Harvard’s Wyss Institute launches human Organ Chip project to model influenza virus infection and develop new therapies
September 13, 2017
Press Release
A new weapon for the war on cancer: a broad-spectrum circulating tumor cell capture agent for diagnostics
June 28, 2017
Press Release
A mechanical trigger for toxic tumor therapy
June 15, 2017
Press Release
Wyss Institute’s Organ Chips get smart and go electric
June 14, 2017
Press Release
Pulmonary Thrombosis-on-a-Chip provides new avenue for drug development
May 22, 2017
Translation News
Wyss Institute startup, Opsonix Inc., honored with prestigious Spinoff Award
May 15, 2017
Press Release
Engineering human stem cells to model the kidney’s filtration barrier on a chip
May 10, 2017
Translation News
FDA to evaluate Organs-on-Chips
April 11, 2017
Press Release
Wyss Institute’s human gut-on-a-chip goes viral
February 1, 2017
Press Release
Patching a gap in wound care
November 29, 2016
Community
+ultra. gestaltung creates knowledge
November 4, 2016
Press Release
Mimicking life-like cigarette smoke exposure and patient-specific responses in human lung airway chips
October 27, 2016
Press Release
‘Fixing’ blood vessel cells to diagnose blood clotting disorders
August 9, 2016
Press Release
How to diagnose systemic infections much more quickly and reliably
June 14, 2016
Press Release
Rapid retrieval of live, infectious pathogens from clinical samples
June 8, 2016
Press Release
Harvard’s Wyss Institute to lead multi-institutional project to uncover underlying causes of tolerance to infection
May 31, 2016
Press Release
Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 20, 2016
Press Release
Crossing a barrier in the study of neurological disease
March 1, 2016
Awards
Ingber receives the 2016 BMES Shu Chien Award
January 8, 2016
Press Release
Detecting when and why deadly blood clots form
January 6, 2016
Press Release
Two Wyss Institute core faculty named 2015 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine
December 23, 2015
Press Release
Modeling COPD and asthma in a human small airway-on-a-chip
December 21, 2015
Press Release
A cultural revolution in the study of the gut microbiome
December 14, 2015
Press Release
The Wyss Institute and the KeepSmilin4Abbie Foundation join forces towards early detection and treatment of anaphylaxis
December 7, 2015
Press Release
Drug-device combination opens potential new path to treat stroke
October 27, 2015
Translation News
Wyss Institute launches startup to commercialize new sepsis therapy
October 8, 2015
Research Spotlights
Aging and death may give an evolutionary advantage
September 10, 2015
Press Release
Harvard’s Wyss Institute improves its sepsis therapeutic device
August 20, 2015
Research Spotlights
Future cancer therapeutics could coax tumor cells back to normal
July 14, 2015
Press Release
Human organs-on-chips named Design of the Year 2015
June 22, 2015
Translation News
Emulate Announces Strategic Collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation to Use Organs-on-Chips Platform to Better Predict Human Response in Drug Development Process
June 18, 2015
Press Release
Re-booting the human gut
June 16, 2015
Press Release
Rethinking aging and life span
June 15, 2015
Video/Animation
Environmental Impact: Redefining Our Understanding
March 20, 2015
Press Release
Organs-on-Chips acquired by MoMA
March 4, 2015
Press Release
Organs-on-chips secure a bid for Design of the Year 2015
February 19, 2015
Awards
Ingber honored by American Heart Association
November 8, 2014
Press Release
Bioinspired coating for medical devices repels blood and bacteria
October 12, 2014
Press Release
Blood-cleansing biospleen device developed for sepsis therapy
September 14, 2014
Translation News
Wyss Institute’s technology translation engine launches ‘Organs-on-Chips’ company
July 28, 2014
Press Release
Wyss Institute Founding Director Don Ingber to deliver 2014 Graeme Clark Oration
June 3, 2014
Press Release
Bone marrow-on-a-chip unveiled
May 5, 2014
Press Release
New shrinking gel steers tooth tissue formation
March 5, 2014
Press Release
Manufacturing a solution to planet-clogging plastics
March 3, 2014
Press Release
Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award: EUR 30,000 for international scientists
January 10, 2014
Press Release
Novel noninvasive therapy prevents breast cancer formation in mice
January 1, 2014
Press Release
Measuring life’s tugs and nudges
December 9, 2013
Community
Science Driven Technology: The Final Frontier
November 4, 2013
Translation News
Harvard’s Wyss Institute and AstraZeneca Announce Collaboration on Organs-on-Chips for Drug Safety Testing
October 16, 2013
Research Spotlights
Gut-, Kidney-, Heart-, on-a-chip ready to serve as disease models, drug testbeds
September 6, 2013
Press Release
Harvard’s Wyss Institute to use ‘Organ-on-a-Chip’ microdevices to evaluate therapies for lethal radiation exposure
August 12, 2013
Press Release
Lifelike cooling for sunbaked windows
July 30, 2013
Research Spotlights
Softening tissue to breathe easier
April 30, 2013
Awards
Global spotlight
April 1, 2013
Press Release
Wyss Institute awarded DARPA contract to further advance sepsis therapeutic device
March 25, 2013
Translation News
Wyss Institute and Sony DADC Announce Collaboration on Organs-on-Chips
March 18, 2013
Awards
Society of Toxicology honors Don Ingber
March 10, 2013
Press Release
Wyss Institute’s Lung-on-a-Chip wins prize for potentially reducing need for animal testing
February 26, 2013
Press Release
Wyss Institute Models a Human Disease in an Organ-on-a-Chip
November 7, 2012
Awards
Don Ingber and Wyss Institute win World Technology Awards
October 24, 2012
Press Release
Two Wyss Institute Core Faculty Elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
October 15, 2012
Press Release
Harvard’s Wyss Institute Develops Novel Nanotherapeutic that Delivers Clot-Busting Drugs Directly to Obstructed Blood Vessels
July 5, 2012
Community
Don Ingber discusses “radical innovation” at the 2012 World Science Festival
June 6, 2012
Awards
Wyss Institute Research Honored at the Massachusetts Life Science Innovation Day 2012
May 31, 2012
Press Release
New Microdevice Enables Culture of Rare Circulating Tumor Cells from Blood
April 24, 2012
Community
Got Purified Milk?
April 11, 2012
Press Release
Harvard’s Wyss Institute Creates Living Human Gut-on-a-Chip
March 27, 2012
Press Release
Researchers Develop “Smart” Nanotherapeutics that Deliver Drugs Directly to Pancreas
January 12, 2012
Press Release
Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber Receives 2011 Holst Medal
December 16, 2011
Press Release
Inspired by Insect Cuticle, Wyss Researchers Develop Low-Cost Material with Exceptional Strength and Toughness
December 13, 2011
Press Release
Discovery of Mechanical Mechanism in Embryo Formation Could Lead to New Approach for Organ Engineering
October 24, 2011
Community
Buildings Inspired by Nature: Inventing the Future Built Environment
October 11, 2011
Community
FDA/NIH Visit to Wyss InstituteÍs Longwood Site Underscores Focus on Regulatory Science
October 11, 2011
Press Release
Wyss Institute Awarded Grant from DARPA to Develop Bioinspired Sepsis Therapeutic Device
September 28, 2011
Press Release
Wyss Institute’s Lung-on-a-Chip Named Finalist for 2011 INDEX: Design for Life Award
June 9, 2011
Community
Donald Ingber, pioneer of organ-on-a-chip technology, to speak at Imperial College London
May 18, 2011
Research Spotlights
Using no-frills paper to create inexpensive 3D cell culture
April 11, 2011
Press Release
Harvard’s Wyss Institute Receives Multiple Honors for Innovative Organ-on-Chip Technologies
March 11, 2011
Press Release
Wyss Institute Experts to Share Cutting-Edge Research in Bio-inspired Building Materials at International Architecture Symposium
March 2, 2011
Press Release
Founding Director of Harvard’s Wyss Institute Elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
February 4, 2011
Awards
Lung-on-a-Chip ranks among year’s best research/top stories
January 24, 2011
Translation News
Agilent Technologies and Harvard’s Wyss Institute Announce Collaboration to Advance Burgeoning Discipline of Biologically Inspired Engineering
November 8, 2010
Press Release
Harvard’s Wyss Institute Welcomes Swiss Delegation
October 29, 2010
Community
Wyss founding director translates nature’s teachings at PopTech 2010
October 20, 2010
Press Release
Wyss Institute Awarded $3.3 Million from NIH-FDA to Develop “Heart-Lung Micromachine” for Drug Safety Testing
October 4, 2010
Community
Wyss founding director shares lessons from nature at opening of Parisian exhibit on cellular design
September 22, 2010
Press Release
Don Ingber joins National Space Biomedical Research Institute’s Board of Directors
July 7, 2010
Press Release
Living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip: A potential drug-testing alternative
June 24, 2010
Press Release
Researchers create self-assembling nanodevices that move and change shape on demand
June 20, 2010
Press Release
Wyss Founding Director Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of In Vitro Biology
June 7, 2010
Press Release
ASIP Award Lecturer Donald Ingber to Discuss Mechanobiology
April 25, 2010
Press Release
The book of life can now literally be written on paper
October 19, 2009
Press Release
Dr. Donald Ingber cited for outstanding achievements
October 5, 2009
Community
Ingber: Dartmouth Medical School Class Day Lecture
June 13, 2009
Research Spotlights
Ingber: Ecological Urbanism
May 1, 2009
Community
Ingber: Lecture on U.S. R&D Agenda on Capital Hill
March 2, 2009
Video/Animation
Egg Carton Analogy: How wounds heal and tumors form
May 14, 2006
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