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Cambridge, MA – October 10, 2017 – A collaborative effort by a team of researchers from three institutions including the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge and Washington University in St. Louis provided an early glimpse of how microbial communities in the gut – known collectively as the gut microbiome – are…

Cambridge, MA – October 5, 2017 – A research team led by the Forsyth Institute today received a $5.4 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pursue revolutionary research of microbes living in the mouth and within the human body. The research has the potential to accelerate work in diverse fields, including medicine, synthetic biology,…

Cambridge, Mass – August 28, 2017 – The Forsyth Institute, a world leader in oral health research, today announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Wenyuan Shi as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer of the Institute effective September 1, 2017. “Dr. Shi’s creativity, vision and drive will help reinvigorate Forsyth in…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 13, 2017 – On Thursday, June 1st, The Forsyth Institute hosted its fourth annual fundraising event, Discover Forsyth: A Taste & A Toast To Good Health, to raise awareness surrounding the importance of oral health research. The event attracted over 230 oral health advocates and philanthropists. Forsyth honored local philanthropic relations director Sharon Driscoll…

The Forsyth Institute honors Dr. Satcher with Forsyth’s Icon Award for his commitment to eliminating health disparities for underserved groups at the annual “Discover Forsyth: A Taste & A Toast to Good Health” event CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 30, 2017 – The Forsyth Institute welcomes Dr. David Satcher, 16th Surgeon General of the U.S., to the institute on…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 1  – A team of scientists from The Forsyth Institute and the Dasman Diabetes Institute in Kuwait have found that metabolic diseases, which are characterized by high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and obesity — leads to changes in oral bacteria and puts people with the disease at a greater risk for…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., December 19, 2016 – New research from The Forsyth Institute explores the way white blood cells regulate inflammation in patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). While inflammation can play a protective role against injury and infection, when prolonged, it can lead to health problems such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, blindness, chronic kidney…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec.14  – Sjögren’s syndrome is the second most common autoimmune disease affecting four million Americans—yet treatments are limited due to a lack of knowledge about its causes. A new study from the Forsyth Institute is helping to shed light on what happens in the development and the life cycle of the disease. This…

Oral health research can tell us a great deal about overall health. Learn more in the article published in the Washington Post. 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., August 17, 2016 –Staphylococcus aureus is a common colonizer of the human body. Although, one quarter of the U.S. population live with the bacteria and never get sick, having S. aureus present in the nostrils is a risk for infections that range in severity from mild skin to life- threatening MRSA infections. Research from the Forsyth…