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Mass General Brigham ‘Research Wrapped’ for 2024

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Highlighting a year of research milestones from across the system

In 2024, Mass General Brigham investigators led the way in research advancements and discoveries.

Experts from across our academic medical centers and specialty hospitals played key roles in many of the biggest medical news stories of 2024. With over 85 Highly Cited Researchers™, publications from this year, especially in basic and foundational research, may lay the groundwork for breakthroughs in the decades ahead.

Check out some highlights of the Year in Research below.

21,500+ scientific papers

published throughout the year

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$2.66 billion

in research operations funding

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737 patents received

for new innovations in research

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Six members of the INCIPIENT Team, two in lab coats, in front of a museum exhibit about cancer treatment.

March 13, 2024: Members of the Mass General Cancer Center INCIPIENT team that conducted the first trial of CAR-T therapy for glioblastoma at Mass General Brigham.

Three women posing beside an MRI machine, with one woman sitting on the MRI bed.

June 20, 2024: Yakeel Quiroz, PhD (left), shown here working with research participant from a large Colombian family with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease, helped to identify a gene variant that can stave off early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

A young girl in a blue shirt that says OCD Walk, standing beside a banner for the OCD Walk.

July 24, 2024: Julia Hum, a Mass General Brigham patient, received an innovative course of treatment with deep brain stimulation, which helped her overcome a near decade-long fight with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

People in evening clothes pose on a grand staircase in front of a huge window at Harvard.

September 28, 2024: The Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (MADRC) celebrated 40 years of research.

Two women in evening clothes pose with their Fierce 50 trophy.

December 5, 2024: Susan Slaugenhaupt, PhD, accepts the Fierce Biotech Fierce 50 award on behalf of the Mass General Research Institute.

A bowing man presents the Nobel Prize to a second man as the audience gives a standing ovation.

Five women posing in fromt of a doorway that's decorated for Christmas, with a presidential flag beside them and a stunning pink merry-go-round made of glass ornaments in the room behind them.

December 11, 2024: Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc (second from right), executive director of the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and others at the first-ever White House Conference on Women’s Health Research.

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