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Designed and assembled by experts from across the Institute, including with help from IMES, the facility should enable testing of up to 1,500 people a day. In mid-March, in response to the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic, MIT Medical quickly set up testing tents where essential workers and others who remained on…

Several HST students received honors, fellowships and awards during the 2019-2020 academic year, including Constantine Tzouanas, an HST Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (MEMP) PhD student; and Mark Aurel Nagy, an HST MD student. The 2019-2020 academic year has been challenging, but rewarding, for students in the Harvard-MIT Program in…

DACA Isn’t What Made Me an American Being a Dreamer is. Jin K. Park, an MD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST), and a second-year medical student at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was the first Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient to win a…

Covid-19 has upended routines across MIT. For professor and cardiologist Elazer Edelman, head of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), that’s meant there’s no such thing as a typical day. The following story originally appeared in MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/16/1002999/a-professors-new-normal-is-anything-but/ Since the covid-19 pandemic took hold in…

Research projects, including some led by IMES faculty members, will harness the power of artificial intelligence to positively impact human health. In February, researchers from MIT and Takeda Pharmaceuticals joined together to celebrate the official launch of the MIT-Takeda Program. The MIT-Takeda Program aims to fuel the development and application…

Data-informed efforts, partly led by IMES, are contributing to the Institute’s ramp-up strategy. As MIT continues to consider and refine options for the fall, two questions stand out: how to safely and responsibly welcome people back into the Institute’s physical spaces, and how to ensure the MIT community can excel…

Suggested design could make it easier to divide air flow for Covid-19 patients in emergencies when no other options are available.

A technique developed by MIT researchers, including an HST student, paves the way for more energy efficient, 3D microprocessors. Carbon nanotube transistors are a step closer to commercial reality, now that MIT researchers have demonstrated that the devices can be made swiftly in commercial facilities, with the same equipment used…

MIT engineers have now come up with a way to boost the effectiveness of one type of cancer immunotherapy. They showed that if they treated mice with existing drugs called checkpoint inhibitors, along with new nanoparticles that further stimulate the immune system, the therapy became more powerful than checkpoint inhibitors given alone.

A group of HST students have found an effective and innovative way to use their talents to battle the serious threats of the pandemic to healthcare workers on the frontlines. The Covid-19 pandemic crisis has forced many people around the world into jobs and tasks they never imagined themselves doing….