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Harvard Design Magazine covers how faculty, students, and practitioners use play to generate knowledge, engage community, and rethink urban design. The magazine features MOOT City, an urban planning game developed by Gorata Kgafela during her doctoral research in Botswana for her Doctor of Design degree at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

A research team out of Kit Parker’s lab at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has developed a way to create customizable synthetic blood vessel grafts in minutes using a focused rotary jet spinning technology. The research has the potential to make time-sensitive medical treatments faster and more personalized.

Harvard Magazine’s Q&A with Leonardo Riella, the HMS Harold and Ellen Danser Associate Professor of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, on the advancement of xenotransplantation. Reilla discusses what the research and medical teams learned from the first successful kidney transplant using a genetically engineered pig kidney developed by eGenesis, a company founded by HMS Professor George Church and former HMS postdoctoral fellow Luhan Yang with support from the Wyss Institute.

Connie Cepko reflects on four decades of advancing efforts to prevent or treat vision-threatening disease. The Cepko Lab is highly translational, advancing research with support from the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator and by collaborating with industry, resulting in over 40 inventions from the lab.