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Statistical model defines ketamine anesthesia’s effects on the brain

October 14, 2021

Neuroscientists at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital, including an IMES faculty member and an HST student, develop a statistical framework that describes brain-state changes patients experience under ketamine-induced anesthesia. By developing the first statistical model to finely characterize how ketamine anesthesia affects the brain, a team of researchers at MIT’s…

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Toward a smarter electronic health record

October 14, 2021

An AI-enhanced system enables doctors to spend less time searching for clinical information and more time treating patients. Electronic health records have been widely adopted with the hope they would save time and improve the quality of patient care. But due to fragmented interfaces and tedious data entry procedures, physicians…

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Lydia Bourouiba elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)

October 13, 2021

Lydia Bourouiba, an affiliate faculty member at IMES, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) by the APS Council of Representatives, a prestigious recognition by her peers for outstanding contributions to physics. Bourouiba, who is an associate professor, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering, and MIT Mechanical…

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Making medical magic

October 5, 2021

If you’re ever in need of a replacement valve in your heart, Ellen Roche has got you covered. Roche is an Associate Professor at MIT’s Institute of Medical Engineering and Science and the Department of Mechanical Engineering; she’s devoted to teaching the next generation of medical engineers and inventors. She’s…

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HST alum receives 2022 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science

September 28, 2021

Harris Wang, HST MEMP PhD 2011 graduate, receives a special prize for creative promise in biomedical science. Harris Wang, HST Medical Engineering Medical Physics (MEMP) PhD 2011 graduate, and an assistant professor at Columbia University in the Department of Systems Biology, is the recipient of a 2022 Vilcek Prize for…

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Using AI to facilitate diagnosis

September 13, 2021

New research from an IMES-based lab shows that AI can be utilized to speed up the process of interpreting intravascular imaging for diagnosis of  coronary disease Intravascular imaging is a useful catheter-based system giving physicians images of diseased vessels deep inside the body. But it is an invasive form of…

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Jordan Harrod: Brain researcher and AI-focused YouTuber

August 30, 2021

This HST MEMP PhD student uses machine learning as a tool for studying pain and consciousness — and as subject matter for her popular videos. Scientist, writer, policy advocate, YouTuber—before Jordan Harrod, an HST Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (MEMP) PhD student—established her many successful career identities, her first role…

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Laurence Young, professor emeritus of astronautics and renowned expert in bioastronautics, dies at 85

August 24, 2021

A pioneer in the science of humans in space, he launched the HST bioastronautics program, and is remembered for far-reaching impact on his field and the people closest to him. Laurence R. Young ’57, SM ’59, ScD ’62, the Apollo Program Professor Emeritus of Astronautics and professor of health sciences…

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Professor Emeritus Lawrence Frishkopf, expert in communications biophysics, dies at 90

August 16, 2021

Longtime EECS and HST faculty member was known for his work on the biophysics of auditory systems. Lawrence Frishkopf, MIT professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science, died on June 25, one day before his 91st birthday. An area chair in the department, Frishkopf was affiliated with both the…

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New device can diagnose Covid-19 from saliva samples

August 10, 2021

The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Engineers at MIT (including at IMES) and Harvard University have designed a small tabletop device that can detect SARS-CoV-2 from a saliva sample in about an hour. In a new study,…

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