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Lee Gehrke, Hermann L. F. von Helmholtz Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, and a member of the core faculty at the Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), has been named to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. Gehrke, who is also…

Jeff Behrens’s research shows that it can be an uphill battle for life science startups to raise adequate capital The Covid-19 pandemic has vaulted life sciences and biotech companies into the spotlight, highlighting the importance of funding vital research in order to develop new vaccines, medical treatments and therapies. With…

A conversation between the MIT Office for Graduate Education (OGE) and Laurie Ward, graduate administrator for HST, to discuss what HST is doing for students seeking funding opportunities. MIT’s decentralized structure provides departments with many freedoms, one of which is the ability to offer, promote, and celebrate graduate fellowships however…

State grants approval for Institute to help in vaccinating approximately 50,000 students, employees, affiliates, and dependents. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has approved MIT’s request to serve as an employer-based distributor of the Covid-19 vaccine. The designation means that as sufficient doses of the vaccine become available over the coming months,…

A collaboration between the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), MIT.nano, MIT Mechanical Engineering and the Clinical Research Center (CRC) has led to an IAP course this week (Jan. 26-28) called Technology for human monitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic – MIT’s approach. The class, with three modules explaining…

Facility within MIT.nano offers equipment and capabilities for visualizing data, creating immersive environments. The MIT.nano Immersion Lab, MIT’s first open-access facility for augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) and interacting with data, is now open and available to MIT students, faculty, researchers, and external users. The powerful set of capabilities is…

Ellen Roche, the W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering, and assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering, MIT, and a core faculty member at IMES, was awarded a Single Ventricle Research Fund Award from Additional Ventures for a research proposal focused on “A Multifaceted Approach to Understanding and Optimizing Single…

A diverse group of researchers, including at IMES, is working to turn new discoveries about the trillions of microbes in the body into treatments for a range of diseases. The microbiome comprises trillions of microorganisms living on and inside each of us. Historically, some researchers have guessed at its role…

At any given moment in the human body, in about 30 trillion cells, DNA is being “read” into molecules of messenger RNA, the intermediary step between DNA and proteins, in a process called transcription. Scientists have a pretty good idea of how transcription gets started: proteins called RNA polymerases are…

As cases increased worldwide this spring, mechanical engineers, including researchers affiliated with IMES, developed solutions to help slow and stop the spread of the coronavirus. An air of uncertainty descended on MIT’s campus in early March. Whispers and rumors about campus closing down swirled in the hallways. Students convened en…