Sloan Foundation grant supports research on mass transit-microbiome link
[ Winter 2013 ] As a key player in the National Institutes of Health’s Human Microbiome Project, HSPH’s Curtis Huttenhower helped identify and analyze the more than 5 million microbial genes that exist in the human body—in the stomach and the mouth,…
HSPH’s Curtis Huttenhower honored by President Obama
Curtis Huttenhower, assistant professor of computational biology and bioinformatics in the Department of Biostatistics at HSPH, was one of 96 researchers named by President Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the…
Human microbiome project outlines powerful new methods for cataloging and analyzing microbes that play role in health and disease
For immediate release: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 Boston, MA — New studies led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers have helped identify and analyze the vast human “microbiome”—the more than five million microbial genes that exist…