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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Cells taken from patients at the time of diagnosis who later developed severe COVID-19 show a muted antiviral response, study finds Over the past 18 months, researchers have learned much about COVID-19 and its viral cause, SARS-CoV-2. They know how the virus enters the body, coming in through the nose…