News & Highlights

One Avocado a Day for Heart Healthy Benefits
November 7, 2019 | New research from Penn State suggests that eating one avocado a day may help keep "bad cholesterol" at bay.
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Optimizing Healthy Weight among Children
October 31, 2019 | Newly funded projects engage community partners to leverage existing federal and local policies to prevent obesity.
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Five Questions with . . . Course Instructor Thomas Michel
October 17, 2019 | Our new series features profiles of our faculty inside and outside the classroom.
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Communicating with Legislators
October 3, 2019 | How a data-driven approach to disseminating scientific evidence to legislators may help.
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In Focus: From the Clinic to the Laboratory
October 2, 2019 | Harvard Catalyst's Models of Disease Boot Camp offers a bridge between two worlds.
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Training the New Scientists of Aging
October 1, 2019 | In collaboration with their Center for Clinical and Translational Science, the Mayo Clinic launches a first-of-its kind geroscience training program.
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Predicting Risk of Heart Failure for Diabetes Patients with Help from Machine Learning
September 26, 2019 | A new study, partially supported by Harvard Catalyst, unveils a new, machine-learning derived model that can predict, with a high degree of accuracy, future heart failure among patients with diabetes.
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The Microbiome in Human Health and Disease
August 19, 2019 | Harvard Catalyst awards pilot funding for five projects that investigate the role of the microbiome in human disease.
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