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With computer models and lab experiments, researchers, including a member of the IMES faculty, are working on a strategy for vaccines that could protect against any influenza virus. Each year, the flu vaccine has to be redesigned to account for mutations that the virus accumulates, and even then, the vaccine…

InfiniteMD, co-founded by an HST alumnus, virtually connects patients with leading medical specialists to give advice on treatment plans, diagnoses, and more. Earlier this year, a little girl was struggling with a neurological condition that caused her to have 20 to 30 seizures a day. Her parents were working with…

A member of the IMES affiliate faculty is announced as award’s first recipient for work in cancer diagnosis and drug synthesis. For more than 100 years Nobel Prizes have been given out annually to recognize breakthrough achievements in chemistry, literature, medicine, peace, and physics. As these disciplines undoubtedly continue to…

MIT researchers have always been drawn to urgent, life-or-death problems. The pandemic is keeping them busy, including two affiliated with IMES. This story was originally published in MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/18/1006213/tackling-covid/ As covid-19 spread across the globe, killing hundreds of thousands and wreaking economic havoc, the MIT community took on…

New book for the general public by the founding director of IMES explains how novel viruses such as SARS-Cov-2 emerge and how we can fight them. Since the novel coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 emerged late last year, it has been virtually impossible to consume any news without encountering stories about the virus…

The company Health at Scale, co-founded by two HST alumni and an MIT professor, uses machine learning to improve outcomes for individual patients. The health care system today largely focuses on helping people after they have problems. When they do receive treatment, it’s based on what has worked best on…

Transitioning to graduate or medical school is a challenge ­– doing so during a pandemic, even more so. This year’s incoming Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST) class will be facing that challenge, as many will be among the Harvard and MIT students taking classes remotely to begin…

Faculty members, including at IMES, recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the past two quarters. 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…

Machine learning system from researchers at MIT CSAIL and IMES can look at chest X-rays to diagnose pneumonia — and also knows when to defer to a radiologist. In recent years, entire industries have popped up that rely on the delicate interplay between human workers and automated software. Companies like…

MIT researchers, including IMES faculty members, propose a design aimed at overcoming a major challenge in hydrocephalus catheters — clogging — by leveraging catheter geometry. For medical professionals treating hydrocephalus — a chronic neurological condition caused by an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), resulting in pressure on the brain…