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Gray was the first woman to lead a science or engineering department at MIT. Martha Gray, PhD, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), has been appointed as the Whitaker Professor in Biomedical Engineering, effective July 1. Martha is also a core faculty member at the Institute for Medical…

Using this diagnostic, doctors could avoid prescribing antibiotics in cases where they won’t be effective.

Stultz will leverage his research into machine learning and computer science, as well as his role as a practicing cardiologist Collin M. Stultz, MD, PhD, the Nina T. and Robert H. Rubin Professor in Medical Engineering and Science, has been named co-director of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and…

Researchers, including at IMES, will research ways to map immune systems and investigate how to make vaccinations most effective for pregnant patients and developing fetuses. Researchers, including Alex Shalek, associate professor of chemistry, MIT, and a core faculty member at IMES; Galit Alter, a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical…

Brown, and three other scientists, recognized for advancing statistical, theoretical analyses of neuroscience data The Gruber Foundation recently announced that Emery N. Brown, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience, and a core faculty member and investigator at the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES),…

Nine MIT researchers, including an IMES faculty member, were selected as finalists in the inaugural MIT Future Founders Initiative Prize Competition The MIT Future Founders Initiative Prize Competition, led by IMES core faculty member Sangeeta Bhatia, MIT Professor and President Emerita Susan Hockfield, and MIT Amgen Professor of Biology Emerita…

Following the successful development of vaccines against Covid-19, scientists hope to deploy mRNA-based therapies to combat many other diseases.

Innovative brain-wide mapping study shows that an “engram,” the ensemble of neurons encoding a memory, is widely distributed and includes regions not previously realized. A new study by scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT provides the most comprehensive and rigorous evidence yet that the mammalian…

Competitive seed grants launch yearlong investigations of novel hypotheses about potential causes, biomarkers, treatments of Alzheimer’s and ALS. Neurodegenerative diseases are defined by an increasingly widespread and debilitating death of nervous system cells, but they also share other grim characteristics: Their cause is rarely discernible and they have all eluded…

Faculty members, including at IMES, are recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes. Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. The School of Engineering periodically recognizes their achievements by highlighting the honors, prizes, and…