The MGH Research Scholars Award Program puts charitable donations directly to work supporting the sort of cutting-edge research that is a Massachusetts General Hospital tradition. The award lets outstanding investigators to pursue big ideas with no certain outcome but huge potential to impact lives of patients worldwide.
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Research Advisory Council: Committed Partners In Research
The council includes scientists, industry leaders and philanthropists who are determined to identify, encourage and support basic medical research with enormous potential to change and save lives.
Continuing a Tradition of Discovery
Part of the nation’s largest hospital-based research effort, the MGH Research Scholars Program seeks to extend Mass General’s unparalleled history as the birthplace of groundbreaking medical discoveries.
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How Do You Stop a Tumor?
Eston Research Scholar Andrea McClatchey, PhD, is pursuing a bold new strategy. Such researchers depend on supporters who are equally determined to change lives.
News & Events
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Realizing Dreams
When cancer threatened newlywed Angela Boylan’s hopes of having children, she turned to specialists at the Mass General fertility center for help.
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Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Teams Up with Mass General to Explore Genetics Behind the Disease
On Oct. 18 2012, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund (CAF) announced a gift of $5.4 million to Mass General to lead an unprecedented Alzheimer’s research project to explore the genetic factors that affect the brain and increase the risk of disease. This [...]
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A Gift For Others
After years in the suburbs, Peggy Scott is now a city person. She enjoys exploring new neighborhoods, riding her bike along the Esplanade and volunteering at Mass General. She is part of the ‘snow team.’ If someone cannot make a [...]
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Honorary Co-chairs Host MGH Campaign Celebration
In September 2012, John Henry and Linda Pizzuti Henry, honorary co-chairs of the $1.5 billion Campaign for the Third Century of MGH Medicine, hosted more than 400 key supporters at their Brookline home. The evening reception paid tribute to philanthropy’s [...]
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A New Vision for Critical Care
Mass General critical care clinicians want more people to leave the hospital stronger. Being able to offer new organs is one of their goals.
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Celebration of Sisters – A Tribute to Marjorie E. and Jane E. Lipson
November 3, 2013 - 11:30 am
The Babson Skating Center
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Opening Celebration for Termeer Center
Mass General Cancer Center Hosts Opening Celebration for Henri and Belinda Termeer Center for Targeted Therapies
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Fashion Runway the Perfect Platform to Raise Cancer Awareness
The Runway Ten fashion show on March 29, 2012, at Copley Place celebrated cancer survivors, who walked the runway with their physicians and nurses. The colorful show, hosted by Neiman Marcus for the Mass General Cancer Center, enabled the participants [...]
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The Exercise Effect
In search of innovative treatments, Mass General clinicians and researchers are trying to understand precisely how exercise benefits the human body.
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Seeds of Empathy
Many medical institutions talk about providing compassionate care. With empathy training, Mass General doesn’t leave it to chance.
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Toward a More Silent Hospital: All’s Quiet in Lunder
Three p.m. on the patient floor of a hospital is typically a noisy time. Nurses are changing shifts, physicians are arriving to see patients, pages are continually heard overhead and alarms are beeping. But on Lunder 9 — one of [...]
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Taking Charge
Years of standing and cutting hair damaged stylist Gregg D’Addario’s shoulders. A pair of surgeries fixed them but the medication he had to take afterwards bothered his stomach and left him groggy. Acupuncture allowed the 68-year-old Revere resident to reduce [...]
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Spotlight on Keith Lillemoe, MD
Keith Lillemoe’s first exposure to the practice of surgery was in the small, rural community of Aberdeen, S.D., where he grew up. He was impressed by a community surgeon’s meticulous devotion to his patients’ welfare. The surgeon’s skillful hands could [...]