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School of Engineering first and second quarter 2020 awards

August 7, 2020

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…

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An automated health care system that understands when to step in

August 7, 2020

 

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…

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New design principle could prevent catheter failure in brain shunts

August 3, 2020

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…

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Real-time data for a better response to disease outbreaks

July 24, 2020

The startup Kinsa, founded by an HST graduate, uses its smart thermometers to detect and track the spread of contagious illness before patients go to the hospital. Kinsa was founded by MIT alumnus Inder Singh MBA ’06, Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST) SM ’07, in 2012, with…

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Exhaled biomarkers can reveal lung disease

July 21, 2020

Specialized nanoparticles create a “breath signal” that could be used to diagnose pneumonia and other infectious or genetic diseases. Using specialized nanoparticles, MIT engineers have developed a way to monitor pneumonia or other lung diseases by analyzing the breath exhaled by the patient. In a study of mice, the researchers…

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Alumni in Greater China boost MIT’s PPE efforts

July 16, 2020

A six-week donation drive yields 15,000 N95 respirator masks and 1,000 medical gowns for use in Massachusetts hospitals. When coronavirus cases in Massachusetts began to increase in early March, the MIT community sprang into action. By late March, more than 50 MIT departments, labs, and centers had donated extra, unopened personal…

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How MIT built its own Covid-19 testing trailer

July 14, 2020

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…

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HST students received many awards, honors and fellowships this year

July 8, 2020

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…

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HST MD student Jin K. Park shares his Dreamer story

July 8, 2020

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…

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IMES director’s “new normal” is anything but

July 2, 2020

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…

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