Helen Zgurskaya and Valentin Rybenkov, researchers at the University of Oklahoma, are leading a five-year, $5.3 million project funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to find new ways to deliver lifesaving drugs directly into resistant pathogens.

Jiahe Zhang, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham, is the lead author of the paper published in Nature Neuroscience, “Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human allostatic-interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI.”

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, and Marta Bianciardi, PhD, of the Department of Radiology at Mass General Brigham are co-senior authors. Barrett is also affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham.

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed a novel biomaterial-based system that induces the formation of tertiary lymphoid-like structures, or TLSs. These immune cell clusters are increasingly linked to improved outcomes and treatment responses in cancer. Results of their study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 

Vaccination against COVID-19 helps reduce long COVID risk in adolescents after their first SARS-CoV-2 infection, a new study finds.