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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…

Award is part of a larger, multipdisciplinary team grant to study biophysics of tuberculosis transmission MIT Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba, an affiliate faculty member at the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), is part of a multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary team that received $16 million from the National Institutes…

A new deep learning algorithm trained to optimize doses of propofol to maintain unconsciousness during general anesthesia could aid anesthesiologists and augment monitoring, according to a new study. A new study by researchers at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), including an IMES faculty member, suggested the day may be…

Assistant Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi, an IMES  faculty member, explores how hidden biases in medical data could compromise artificial intelligence approaches. While working toward her dissertation in computer science at MIT, Marzyeh Ghassemi, wrote several papers on how machine-learning techniques from artificial intelligence could be applied to clinical data in order…

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…

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…