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More than three decades of research by Doug Melton, Catalyst Professor and co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, led to the launch of Semma Therapeutics and the development of a potential new treatment for Type 1 diabetes that uses stem cells to make healthy insulin-producing cells that can be transplanted into patients. The Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator supported the research that led to the launch of Semma Therapeutics out of the Melton Lab.

A collaborative research team led by Mikhail Lukin, co-director of the Quantum Science and Engineering Initiative and a professor at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, published research on a new system that addresses the challenge of quantum error correction. QuEra Computing, a startup company spun out of Lukin’s lab, is collaborating with the research team to advance these discoveries.

A lab at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health received industry-sponsored research and aims to translate discoveries about a protein that helps regulate metabolism and inflammation into novel therapeutics for obesity, heart disease, and age-related illnesses.