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The Next Wave of Meditation Research and Training

We believe that scientific research has only scratched the surface in exploring the potential of meditation. Most initial studies focused on using mindfulness for stress reduction and various clinical applications. The Meditation Research Program, led by Dr. Matthew D. Sacchet at Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General) and Harvard Medical School, aims further the field by pioneering new research and training on advanced meditation .

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Advanced meditation is deeper engagement with meditative practices that with time and mastery, produce refined states of mind and awareness. These include bliss states, insights into the mind, altruistic/compassionate mindsets and ultimately, enduring transformation. Such transformation may result in profoundly altering one’s relations to psychological suffering, desire and motivations and sense of self.

Advanced meditation enables fundamental potential for human flourishing . It promises to contribute to innovation and impact in many fields and domains including mental health, personal thriving and life meaning, wisdom development and consciousness exploration. Advanced meditation also impacts research in relation to psychedelics and more generally, altered states, artificial intelligence, sustained excellence and peak performance, among others.

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We currently have a nascent understanding of advanced meditation, with current meditation research focused on clinical applications of mindfulness. There has been limited scientific research on advanced meditation, it is still in the early stages of introduction to modern culture and life.

The Meditation Research Program’s vision is to lead with the best research and education on advanced meditation. This goal is achieved through our comprehensive multidisciplinary advanced meditation research and our development and implementation of advanced meditation training programs and resources.

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“ Advanced meditation holds significant and untapped opportunities to diminish suffering and help people flourish. […] Our work in the new wave of advanced meditation research is not just about coping with the stress of modern living. It could improve our understanding of and approach to the mind, mental health and well-being, allowing each of us to lead a more fulfilled, compassionate and ‘enlightened’ life .”

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With the award for up to $27 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a collaborative research project at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University will advance a disease-agnostic novel RNA therapeutic with the potential to treat diverse diseases, and to be effectively and rapidly deployable. By safely and naturally stimulating the "innate immune" system -; the body's first line of defense against disease-causing tumor cells and pathogens -; this approach has the potential to stimulate the immune system as a whole, including its more cancer cell and pathogen-specific "adaptive immune" responses. Its therapeutic effects in the body can significantly outlast the presence of the RNA drug itself, and potently synergize with other immunotherapies in patients suffering from various types of cancer and infectious diseases. 

"We are excited by the opportunity afforded by the ARPA-H award to develop new RNA-based therapeutics, advanced delivery vehicles, and manufacturing capabilities to provide patients with cancer and infectious diseases with new treatment opportunities. We have assembled an exceptional team that is eager to realize the potential of our proposed program," said Wyss Core Faculty member Natalie Artzi, Ph.D., who is the lead-investigator on the project with co-principal investigator and Wyss founding director, Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D. Artzi also is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Brigham and Women's Hospital and a Principal Research Scientist at MIT. 

ARPA-H is a federal funding agency established by the Biden Administration, which funds transformative biomedical and health research breakthroughs, rapidly translating research from the lab to applications in the marketplace. The ARPA-H award will allow the Wyss team to significantly accelerate and expand their efforts in order to advance the therapy towards an Investigational New Drug (IND) submission to the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

With its first focus on cancer as a disease target, the multidisciplinary Wyss team combines critical and highly complementary expertise in the areas of drug discovery, advanced  in vitro  and  in vivo  models for preclinical drug testing, innovative drug delivery, RNA nanotechnology, and next-generation RNA synthesis and manufacturing. After having significantly de-risked their disease-agnostic immunotherapeutic RNA therapy as a cancer treatment, the team will also validate its use for difficult-to-treat infectious diseases.

The ARPA-H project builds on a Duplex RNA technology pioneered by Ingber's team and leverages innovative drug delivery approaches that Artzi's group developed with a particular focus on programming the immune system, as well as an expansive array of human "Organ Chip" tissue culture systems advanced by Ingber's group that enable preclinical human drug testing. Artzi and Ingber are joined on the project by additional key investigators, including Wyss Director of Translational R&D Kenneth Carlson, Ph.D., a drug discovery and development specialist with extensive industry experience, who drove the development of the Duplex RNA, and Wyss Core Faculty member William Shih, Ph.D., who has developed DoriVac, a DNA origami platform that allows the precise and highly effective presentation of RNA drugs, cancer and pathogen-derived antigens , and immune activating adjuvants to the immune system. Shih and his team will provide their DNA nanotechnology approach as an additional drug delivery component to the project. Finally, the researchers will collaborate with Wyss start-up EnPlusOne Biosciences to harness the RNA solution company's novel enzymatic RNA synthesis and manufacturing capabilities that overcome key limitations of commonly used chemical RNA synthesis methods. 

"The Wyss Institute's ambition and ability to take on extraordinarily difficult challenges, and to mature promising early research discoveries all the way to real-world solutions that are prime for clinical stages, resonates well with ARPA-H's mission. We are excited and confident that our accomplished, highly multidisciplinary team will have a significant impact on future immune therapies and patients' lives with ARPA-H's tremendous support," said Ingber, who is also the  Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology  at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, and the  Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering  at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Origins and validation

The project began in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, when Ingber's group identified a novel, structurally distinct double stranded RNA molecule (Duplex RNA) that they showed prevents the replication of various potential pandemic respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2 in an animal model as well as MERS-CoV, and various influenza viruses in human lung tissues engineered in Organ Chips. It did so by stimulating an innate immune response involving a family of protective cytokines known as interferons (IFNs) without triggering potentially dangerous inflammation that occurs when the innate immune system is overactivated. As the molecular target for the Duplex RNA, the researchers identified the RIG-I protein, which normally responds to viral RNA molecules by inducing tissue-protective immune responses through the balanced activation of several gene-activating IFN pathways. 

IFN protein therapeutics have made their way into the clinic for the treatment of infectious diseases as well as certain cancers, and they also have been used to sensitize cancer cells to other forms of therapy, including chemo- and radiation therapy, as well as newer immunotherapies. However, "past therapeutic approaches, which administered a single concentrated dose of an individual manufactured IFN protein  via  injection, have often been unbalanced, as they strongly and selectively activate only one of many downstream pathways, and they had highly variable effects across patients and cancer types," said Carlson. "Our Duplex RNA approach induces the body's own innate immune response, resulting in a more balanced, highly beneficial activation of multiple types of protective IFNs with a significantly larger therapeutic window that we aim to broadly harness in this project."

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The Duplex RNA project was named a Wyss Validation Project in 2022, during which time the Wyss team further de-risked their novel approach as an infectious disease therapeutic by showing potent efficacy in a mouse model of COVID-19. Then, in a second Wyss Validation Project awarded in 2023 and coordinated by Ingber and Carlson, which also includes Artzi and Shih as investigators, they successfully pursued it as a potential cancer therapeutic. In the new ARPA-H project, they will leverage the powerful RNA delivery capabilities of Artzi's and Shih's groups along with the groundbreaking enzymatic RNA synthesis capabilities of EnPlusOne to optimize the Duplex RNA's stability and efficacy. They also will utilize human Organ Chip culture technology and preclinical animal models as highly relevant test beds. Importantly, findings obtained in human Organ Chip models, according of the 2022 FDA Modernization Act, can now be included in an IND submission to the FDA.

Delivery is key

Key for the project's success will be the team's ability to deliver an optimized Duplex RNA to the body's tumor-bearing or infected tissues. Artzi has pioneered multiple drug delivery systems that can be used to target therapies to specific sites and cells in the body, or effectively distribute them broadly. For example, her group's polymeric nanoparticles can increase the stability and loading of drugs, as well as drug uptake by cells, when compared to other delivery methods, and release their cargo in response to specific cellular cues. This enabled her team to create an immunotherapy that accumulates in immune and cancer cells, with the latter functioning as a depot – releasing the nanoparticles to innate immune cells in their vicinity, and activating them to generate a long-lasting anti-tumor immune response. 

While these nanoparticles are administered intravenously, another material-based delivery strategy developed in Artzi's group consists of polymeric microneedles that, applied as a patch, can be used to deliver drugs into subcutaneous layers of the skin. The team used these microneedle patches to administer a melanoma therapy in a mouse model, and to monitor local immune responses based on skin biomarkers collected by the patch. The utility of microneedles, including their safe and painless administration, also makes them an important future avenue to treat many more patients in clinically underdeveloped settings, allowing them to benefit from otherwise inaccessible therapies. 

We will pursue both delivery routes for the disease-agnostic Duplex RNA therapy and, together with William Shih's group, also explore their integration with DNA origami technology, which can function as a precision instrument to fine-tune and enhance the presentation of the Duplex RNA to RIG-I sensor proteins within cells. Our ultimate goal is a disease-agnostic innate immune therapeutic platform that effectively synergizes with other immunotherapies, enabling a much larger proportion of patients to be treated with them across a much larger range of cancer and infectious diseases." Natalie Artzi, Ph.D., lead-investigator on the project 

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The Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR) course trains registrants on how to effectively and safely conduct clinical research. The course focuses on the spectrum of clinical research and the research process by highlighting biostatistical and epidemiologic methods, study design, protocol preparation, patient monitoring, quality assurance, ethical and legal issues, and much more.

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Provide an overview of basic biostatistical and epidemiologic methods involved in conducting clinical research.

Describe the principles involved in the ethical, legal, and regulatory issues in clinical human subjects research, including the role of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs).

Describe principles and issues involved in monitoring patient-oriented research.

Describe the infrastructure required in performing clinical research and the steps involved in developing and funding research studies.

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Dr. Zajicek is a board certified pediatrician and pediatric clinical pharmacologist who currently serves as Program Director of the Office of Clinical Research Education and Collaboration Outreach at the National Institutes of Health.
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Dr. Lisa M. Cordes is an Oncology Clinical Pharmacy Specialist and Educator for the National Institutes of Health. In her current position, she provides clinical and protocol support to the Genitourinary Malignancies Branch and the Clinical Pharmacology Program of the National Cancer Institute, and is co-director of the Principles of Clinical Pharmacology course.
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Laura Lee Johnson, Ph.D. is the patient focused drug development liaison and the division director for the Office of Biostatistics at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). She specializes in design, logistics, implementation, and analysis of research studies of all sizes and in measurement tool and endpoint development. Prior to working at the FDA she spent over a decade at the U.S. National Institutes of Health working on and overseeing clinical research and research support programs.
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Dr. John Gallin served as the National Institutes of Health's Associate Director for Clinical Research and Chief Scientific Officer of the NIH Clinical Center from 2017-2023. He has published more than 365 articles in scientific journals and has edited two textbooks – "Inflammation, Basic Principles and Clinical Correlates" (Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, 1999, now in 3rd edition) and "Principles and Practice of Clinical Research" (Academic Press, now in 4th edition, 2018). Dr. Gallin is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the National Academy of Medicine, and he is a Master of the American College of Physicians.

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Clinical researchers today need strong grant-writing skills to get their high-impact research projects approved and funded. Yet effective writing techniques typically aren’t taught in medical school, leaving many researchers struggling to create opportunities to further their work. That’s why the Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Medical Education’s Global Clinical Scholars Research Training program fills in the gaps to strengthen participants’ skills in this area and equip them with a valuable competitive edge to move the field forward.  

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Global Clinical Scholars Research Training is a year-long certificate program designed for clinicians and clinician-scientists to provide them with advanced research training to accelerate their careers in exciting directions and prepare them to lead teams across a range of healthcare settings. This includes a strong focus on grant-writing skills, since this is such a critical part of a clinical researcher’s success, according to Djøra Soeteman, PhD, MA, a research scientist affiliated with the Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who serves as co-director of the program.

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Scholars enrolled in the program complete a mentored capstone project that consists of writing a grant proposal for research funding, which provides them with a real-world opportunity to put their learnings into action. As part of the capstone, each scholar submits a brief pitch of their idea, as well as a plan on how they will achieve it. These pieces are used to build the proposal itself. Harvard faculty members work with students to help them hone the writing and framing of their ideas to make them most likely to be effective, Soeteman says.  

She adds that some Global Clinical Scholars Research Training scholars have been able to get their capstone grant proposals approved and funded, which has been exciting to watch.

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In addition to sharpening their grant-writing abilities, scholars strengthen essential research skills and knowledge in several areas, including leadership, advanced statistical tools, and research ethics. This deep dive into these areas prepares participants to develop and manage their research plans when they graduate from the program.  

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A deeper understanding of statistical analyses : Scholars are introduced to statistical software and computing methods to empower them to analyze their own data and put it into the right context. This advanced familiarity allows researchers to work closely with statisticians to guide the process and to ultimately be able to produce manuscript-quality figures and graphs to support their work. “Ideally, you want to do those statistical analyses yourself—or at least know what kind of options exist—so you can explain exactly what you want. This advanced knowledge gives students the confidence to do their own research, to write papers, to present at conferences, and to hold leadership positions in clinical research,” Soeteman stresses.

Recognizing the hallmarks of high-quality research : Scholars will get an in-depth look at the elements of high-quality research and will learn to critically assess research findings they are reading or reviewing to see how they measure up to the expected standards. Such insights can help scholars better interpret clinical findings while also taking a more critical view of their own work.

The value of building and leveraging important connections : One of the struggles researchers often face is forming important connections in order to build a team to support their efforts. “Scholars often want to conduct research at their institute or at their hospital, but it’s difficult to set up a research study like a clinical trial or an observational study in your own center if you’re the only one working on it,” Soeteman explains. Global Clinical Scholars Research Training provides a valuable forum through which participants can meet other, like-minded professionals and form relationships that they can build on to move their efforts forward.

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While some clinical researchers who want to boost their research and grant proposal writing skills may be worried about juggling the demands of the program with their family and work commitments, Soeteman points out that, although this may be a challenge, the concern is usually unfounded. In fact, she says that all the scholars somehow find a way to manage their responsibilities and school quite successfully. She credits this to the tremendous motivation most participants demonstrate, coupled with the commitment from the faculty and staff to support each person’s journey. A strong camaraderie among students also helps everyone stick together and support one other throughout the year. In addition, upon completion of the program, graduates often stay in touch with their classmates and other experts they met through the program and share advice, support, and networking. This can even lead to new opportunities to work together on high-impact research studies and other projects that are advancing our understanding of healthcare.

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“Scholars are often motivated to start doing research—or to keep going on existing efforts—because they get inspired through the program,” Soeteman says. She adds that by combining the knowledge they gain in the Global Clinical Scholars Research Training program over the course of the year with their newfound effective grant-writing abilities, scholars are well positioned to develop their careers as clinical researchers and as leaders, helping them to ultimately drive innovation and achieve better outcomes.

The next Global Clinical Scholars Research Training program begins this October and the application deadline is September 11, 2024.

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    Harvard Medical School offers a wide range of postgraduate medical education for physicians, researchers and other health care providers. Drawing upon the world-class HMS faculty, programs, and courses are designed to help you advance in your career as health care professionals and stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in medical research and clinical practice.

  11. Research Departments, Centers, Initiatives and more

    Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Division of Nutrition. ... HiTS: the Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science . HMS Celiac Research Program. Harvard University Center for AIDS Research. HMS Division of Emergency Medicine.

  12. Global Clinical Scholars Research Training

    Designed for clinicians and clinician-scientists in both the United States and abroad, our Global Clinical Scholars Research Training program provides advanced training in health care research and methods. Using a blended learning model that incorporates online tools, live virtual seminars, and dynamic workshops, the curriculum is focused on enhancing your ability at every stage of the ...

  13. Foundations of Clinical Research

    The Foundations of Clinical Research program is designed for professionals holding an MD, MBBS, MB Bch, PhD, DMD, DDS, PharmD, DNP, BSN, DPT, OTD, RD, PA, or equivalent degree. The program is specifically designed for those with an interest in and aptitude for clinical research who are interested in gaining the skills and knowledge to advance their career aspirations in investigation.

  14. HMS Celiac Research Program

    Founded in 2013, the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Celiac Research Program is a collaborative effort of Harvard-affiliated hospitals including the Celiac Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) and the Boston Children's Hospital Celiac Disease Program (BCH).

  15. Harvard University Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research

    Summer Scholars is a Harvard Medical School summer internship program for motivated undergraduates with a strong interest in pursuing graduate studies focused on molecular mechanisms in biology. The program offers students the opportunity to gain experience in hands-on laboratory research; to interact with faculty, postdoctoral fellows ...

  16. Student Research

    NIH Medical Research Scholars Program; Fulbright US Student Program; ... Harvard Medical School Tosteson Medical Education Center, Suite 347 260 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115 Phone: 617-432-2750 [email protected]. Hours: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Monday - Friday In-person Office Hours:

  17. Global Clinical Scholars Research Training

    Designed for clinicians and clinician-scientists in both the United States and abroad, our Global Clinical Scholars Research Training program aims to enable scholars to expand their knowledge and sharpen their skills in clinical research.Using a blended learning model that incorporates online tools, in-person seminars and dynamic workshops, the curriculum is focused on enhancing your ability ...

  18. Medical Research Courses

    This Harvard Medical School one-year, application-based certificate program provides advanced training in health care research and methods. $14,900 - $15,900. Register by Sep 11. Browse the latest Medical Research courses from Harvard University.

  19. Meditation Research Program

    The Meditation Research Program, led by Dr. Matthew D. Sacchet at Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General) and Harvard Medical School, aims further the field by pioneering new research and training on advanced meditation. Join us on this transformative journey into the evolving science and practice of advanced meditation.

  20. Five Harvard Medical School Faculty Named HHMI Investigators

    Five researchers from Harvard Medical School have been named among 26 new HHMI Investigators by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).. Get more HMS news here. HHMI supports investigators to do research that radically changes our understanding of how biology works, pushing the boundaries of basic biological and biomedical sciences and working across scientific disciplines in a wide range ...

  21. How to Find A Medical School That Leads to a Research Career

    A good biomedical research program should have a nurturing environment for students to learn and grow, says Pius N. Nde, associate professor and director of the Ph.D. program in the department of ...

  22. Search

    Medical Sociology (16) Methods for Policy Research (100) Organizational Behavior (4) Political Analysis (56) Dissertation Committee Member expand_more. A Jay Holmgren (1) Alan Zaslavsky (36) ... Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy 8 Story Street, Suite 380 Cambridge, MA 02138 .

  23. Legal Studies

    Harvard Medical School Harvard Radcliffe Institute Harvard School of Dental Medicine ... Explore and understand the world with Harvard In Focus is a curated examination of Harvard's research, scholarly work, and community. Recent topics include: ... VIEW ALL PROGRAMS Legal Studies. Copy link Undergraduate Program

  24. People

    Rachelly Normand. e-mail:[email protected] Rachelly is a post-doctoral associate in the lab, co-mentored with Dr. Chloé Villani from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute. Rachelly leads a few single cell atlas projects including thyroid gland atlas, blood cell atlas and COVID cell atlas of blood and tissues.

  25. A Treatment for Loneliness

    A groundbreaking study in the July 2012 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine found that 43 percent of older adult participants reported feelings of loneliness. That study further indicated that people 60 years and older who reported struggling with loneliness faced an increased risk of mortality compared with participants who do not ...

  26. HCP Study Receives the 2024 AcademyHealth Publication of the Year Award

    Dr. Kannan M.D. is a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School's Department of Health Care Policy and a physician in the Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care at Massachusetts General Hospital. ... This has included studies of payment reform, health care prices, Medicare Advantage, employer programs, and changes in provider ownership. Facebook ...

  27. The A.R.T. Institute at Harvard University

    The A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University was established in 1987 as a training ground for professional theater. A two-year, graduate-level program, the Institute was created with an understanding that students can best prepare for a life in the performing arts by immersing themselves in the work of a professional ...

  28. ARPA-H funding boosts Wyss Institute's RNA therapeutic project

    With the award for up to $27 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a collaborative research project at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at ...

  29. Courses in Clinical Research

    Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health and medical research. The NIH website offers health information for the public, scientists, researchers, medical professionals, patients, educators, and students.

  30. Global Clinical Scholars Research Training

    Clinical researchers today need strong grant-writing skills to get their high-impact research projects approved and funded. Yet effective writing techniques typically aren't taught in medical school, leaving many researchers struggling to create opportunities to further their work. That's why the Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Medical Education's Global Clinical Scholars Research ...