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PhD Fellowship
The Herchel Smith Fellowship recognizes truly exceptional PhD students pursuing research in the life sciences at Harvard. Incoming graduate students are recruited in collaboration with a HILS Ph.D. program. Each of the 13 Harvard life‑science PhD programs...
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2025 Symposium
From July 30 to August 1, 2025, Harvard had the pleasure of hosting the Herchel Smith Research Symposium for three vibrant days in Boston, MA. The event took place across both the Harvard University and Harvard Medical School campuses, welcoming over 50...
Lab Exchange Program
The Herchel Smith Graduate Exchange Scholar Program supports short-term (8-week) research exchanges between Harvard University and the University of Cambridge. Each year, up to two graduate fellows from each institution are awarded a stipend to cover...
About
Herchel Smith was born in the UK at Plymouth and became an undergraduate at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1942, where he read for the Natural Sciences Tripos. This he completed with distinction. His research interests in organic chemistry were...