HIRSCHHORN LAB
Boston Children's Hospital · Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard · Harvard Medical School
SELECTED MEDIA FEATURES
Yale Insights: Health & Veritas. How Genes Add Up (2026). [link]
The Genetics of Height. Harvard Medicine (2025). [link]
Victor Wembanyama has the keys to drive the NBA into a new era. NBA.com (2025). [link]
Obesity Prediction Could Be Guided by Genetic Risk Scores. The New York Times (2025). [link]
The genetics of height: Coming close to cracking the code. Boston Children’s Hospital (2022). [link]
Scientists Uncover Nearly All Genetic Variants Linked to Height. Harvard Medical School (2022). [link]
Midsummer Night's Science: The Eliana Hechter Memorial Lecture. Broad Institute (2018). [link]
Which Genes Make You Taller? A Whole Bunch Of Them, It Turns Out. NPR (2017). [link]
Scientists Discover the Genes That Decide How Tall You Are. Time (2017). [link]
Ten Years of Perspective on GWAS, with Joel Hirschhorn. Biologic Podcast (2017) [link]
New Genes Mean the Future of Obesity Treatment Could Get Personal. Time (2015). [link]
New Study Makes Great Strides in Understanding Human Height. Time (2014). [link]
Tall Tale: Scientists Unravel the Genetics of Human Height. Reuters (2014). [link]