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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….

A chemical process called ELAST, developed at the lab of a core member of the IMES faculty, allows labeling probes to infuse more quickly, and makes samples tough enough for repeated handling. When there’s a vexing problem to be solved, people sometimes offer metaphorical advice such as “stretching the mind”…

Multi-institutional MassCPR initiative announces more than $16.5 million to support 62 Boston-area projects, including two headed by faculty at IMES. As the world grapples with the continuing challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, a multi-institutional initiative has been formed to support a broad range of research aimed at addressing the devastation…