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On Wednesday, May 26, the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST) held its second online graduation ceremony and celebration. ​Accustomed by now to doing everything­—from learning to celebrating—online, the stellar class of 2021 graduates of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST) participated in the program’s…

For the first time, researchers, including the associate director of IMES, were able to observe, in extra-fine detail, how neurons behave as consciousness shuts down. When you are awake, your neurons talk to each other by tuning into the same electrical impulse frequencies. One set might be operating in unison…

The two chemical engineers, including the IMES founding director, are awarded MIT’s highest faculty honor. Two distinguished MIT chemical engineers, Arup K. Chakraborty and Paula Hammond, have been named Institute Professors, the highest honor bestowed upon MIT faculty members.

Design of miniature optical systems could lead to future cell phones that can detect viruses and more. In work that could someday turn cell phones into sensors capable of detecting viruses and other minuscule objects, MIT researchers, including a principal research scientist from the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science…

Researchers, including an IMES faculty member, have developed a new type of adhesive that works in wet environments and hardens when a voltage is applied to it. A team of researchers, including a core faculty member at IMES, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has developed a device…

Alex K. Shalek, a core faculty member of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), an associate professor of Chemistry, and an extramural member of The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, has been honored with an Avant-Garde (DP1 Pioneer) Award from the National Institute for…

Single-cell analysis of autopsy samples from COVID-19 patients shows how the lungs repeatedly tried, and failed, to repair themselves. Scientists from several hospitals and research centers, including from the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), have shown what happens in individual cells of patients who died of COVID-19….

With synthetic biology and AI, Jim Collins takes on this pandemic—and the next In late January, just as he was stepping on stage to tape a TED video in New York, Jim Collins learned that the new respiratory virus discovered in Wuhan, China, was infectious in asymptomatic people. “I turned…

International study reveals gut bacteria from people in industrialized societies swap genes at much higher rates. Thousands of different bacterial species live within the human gut. Most are beneficial, while others can be harmful. A new study from an MIT-led team has revealed that these bacterial populations can remake themselves…

A leader in thermodynamics, heat transfer, cryopreservation of biomaterials, and energy conversion, Cravalho shaped thermodynamic and biomedical education at MIT, and was a past associate director of HST. Ernest “Ernie” Cravalho, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT, passed away on Tuesday, April 13, at the age of 82. Cravalho…