Richard Cohen: Pioneering biomedical research and education at MIT for half a century
The physician, scientist, and professor has made influential contributions to the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology since it began 50 years ago. Richard J. Cohen, the Whitaker Professor in Biomedical Engineering in the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) and a faculty member in the Harvard-MIT…
Read More3 Questions for: Emery N. Brown
Long before Emery N. Brown chaired Massachusetts General Hospital’s recent 175th anniversary celebration of the first public demonstration of ether anesthesia, he was thinking deeply about how far anesthesiology has come and could still go. Anesthetic drugs act on the brain, but the field has barely explored the innovations that…
Read MoreWhen should someone trust an AI assistant’s predictions?
Researchers, including at IMES, have created a method to help workers collaborate with artificial intelligence systems. In a busy hospital, a radiologist is using an artificial intelligence system to help her diagnose medical conditions based on patients’ X-ray images. Using the AI system can help her make faster diagnoses, but…
Read MoreThree with MIT ties, including an HST student, win 2022 Churchill Scholarships
HST student James Diao, and seniors David Darrow and Tara Venkatadri, will pursue master’s programs at Cambridge University. MIT seniors David Darrow and Tara Venkatadri have been selected as 2022 Churchill Scholars and will embark on a year of graduate studies in the U.K. starting next fall. James Diao, a…
Read MoreEvery Pore on Your Face Is a Walled Garden
A close examination of human skin found that each pore had a single variety of bacteria living inside. A study co-authored by MIT researchers—including Tami Lieberman, a core member of the IMES Faculty— finds each pore on the human face holds a different variety of Cutibacterium acnes bacteria. “Each person’s…
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