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Microbes that safely break down antibiotics could prevent opportunistic infections and reduce the spread of antibiotic resistance, according to MIT researchers, including at IMES. Antibiotics are life-saving drugs, but they can also harm the beneficial microbes that live in the human gut. Following antibiotic treatment, some patients are at risk…

Colleagues lauded the HST Academic Program Manager for her 41 years working on behalf of the program, students Patricia “Patty” Cunningham, who retired recently, was honored with a celebration of her 41 years with the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST). Joining while a junior in college, she…

At 50-year mark, HST embarks on broad curriculum reform Sanjat Kanjilal, an infectious disease physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and now a Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty member, graduated from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program in 2010. While still a student in 2005, Kanjilal took the…

Pierre Galletti Award recognizes contributions to neural signal processing, anesthesiology advances The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering announced today that it is awarding its highest honor this year to Emery N. Brown, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Health Sciences & Technology in The Picower Institute…

Koch Institute Image Award 2022 winners included an image from the Van Vliet Lab, including Mingyu Yang, an HST MEMP PhD student The Koch Institute Image Awards celebrate the extraordinary visuals that are produced through life sciences and biomedical research at MIT. This year, one of the awardees include an…

A new methodology simulates counterfactual, time-varying, and dynamic treatment strategies, allowing doctors to choose the best course of action. When it comes to treatment strategies for critically ill patients, clinicians want to be able to consider all their options and timing of administration, and make the optimal decision for their…

The following piece first appeared in MIT Technology Review: Art and Sandy Reidel say the personal connections they have made at MIT inspire their ongoing support for the Institute, specifically for programs that instill leadership skills in students. “MIT is an incredible collection of wonderful individuals,” Art says. “We support…

The following staff profile appeared in a recent issue of the School of Engineering newsletter, The Infinite. I am an Academic Program Manager with the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST). Patty Cunningham joined the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST) as a junior in college….

In stepping down as co-director of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, Brown will work to develop a new center for anesthesiology research. Emery N. Brown—the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and of Computational Neuroscience at MIT, an MIT professor of health sciences and technology, an…

A computational study by MIT researchers, including an HST student, shows that dozens of mutations help the virus’ spike protein evade antibodies that target SARS-CoV-2. A new study from MIT suggests that the dozens of mutations in the spike protein of the Omicron variant help it to evade all four…