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The Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences & Technology (HST) MEMP Student Diversity Ambassadors have won the 2019 MIT Bridge Builder Award, given to students and/or groups who have exhibited a solid commitment to celebrating the array of communities represented at MIT.

MIT engineers have designed tiny robots that can help drug-delivery nanoparticles push their way out of the bloodstream and into a tumor or another disease site. Like crafts in “Fantastic Voyage” — a 1960s science fiction film in which a submarine crew shrinks in size and roams a body to repair…

The Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology is proud to announce that faculty member Elliot Chaikof has won the 2019 Flance-Karl Award, accorded annually by the American Surgical Association. The award is given to one surgeon in the U.S. who has made a significant impact in translational research, having…

Claudia Elena Varela and Elise Chantal Wilcox, both students in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST), have been chosen as 2019 MIT Graduate Women of Excellence. Selected among 200 nominees for their first-rate leadership and service contributions to the MIT community, Varela and Wilcox will be honored…

In celebration of its first quarter century, the journal Immunity asked 25 principal investigators to share their views on how immunology research could evolve over the next 25 years.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2019 IDEA² Global program! Deadline is April 16, 2019. Open to postdoctoral trainees, graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, early-stage professionals, and those with limited opportunities to pursue their innovative projects, IDEA² Global provides one-on-one mentorship, innovation training, pitch-skills development, and international networking opportunities to aspiring healthcare…

Video game developer NCSOFT joins with MIT.nano to apply the language of gaming to technology research and education. A new collaboration between MIT.nano and NCSOFT, a video game development company based in South Korea, will seek to chart the future of how people interact with the world and each other…

The following press release was issued today by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. A group of academic institutions has granted a license for SHERLOCK™, the highly-sensitive, low-cost CRISPR-based diagnostic, for commercial uses in the developed world, while reserving rights to enable its broad use by organizations to serve…

Isha H. Jain, MEMP PhD ’17, and Kristin Knouse, HST MD ’18 and MIT Biology PhD ’17, are two of twelve recipients of the 2018 National Institutes of Health Director’s Early Independence Award. The award supports junior scientists who possess “the intellect, scientific creativity, drive, and maturity to flourish independently.”…

For her 20 years of dedication to cultivating a workplace that fosters diverse viewpoints and open collaboration, IMES Principal Research Scientist Mercedes Balcells-Camps has won a 2019 MIT Excellence Award for “Advancing Inclusion and Global Perspectives”. She will be celebrated alongside other MIT Excellence Award winners and Collier Medal recipients…