Outpouring of support from MIT’s worldwide community bolsters Institute’s COVID-19 response
Alumni and supporters look to MIT in time of crisis. Members of the MIT community living all over the world have reached out to offer support for the Institute’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting the creation of two new funds to support MIT’s efforts to help address the public…
Read MorePotential implications for reducing transmission of COVID-19
A new article by a faculty member at MIT and IMES holds promise for the prevention of and precautions around COVID-19 Lydia Bourouiba, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor, MIT and associate professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT and the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and…
Read MoreA new way to prepare graduate students to lead in tech
An advisory group comprised of MIT graduate students, including two HST MEMP PhD students, has led to a new graduate certificate in leadership. Before coming to MIT, Benjamin Lienhard focused most of his energy exploring fragile quantum states, dwelling in the world of nanotechnology and filling in gaps in the…
Read MoreUnderstanding the score: A dynamic interrogation of acute HIV infection
A new study by an IMES faculty member and his lab uses single-cell RNA sequencing to understand immune system dynamics after acute HIV infection. Alex Shalek, a core faculty member at the MIT Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), Pfizer-Laubach Career Development associate professor, MIT, and a Ragon associate…
Read MoreMIT community encouraged to respond to request for personal protective equipment
Area hospitals in need of PPE look to university labs and departments for donations. With a surge in COVID-19 cases anticipated in the coming days and weeks, frontline medical teams and hospitals are working to prepare. However, many area facilities have limited supplies of the personal protective equipment (PPE) they…
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