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Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering, including IMES faculty, receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence.

Laura Lewis, a core member of the IMES faculty, describes how her research focus came to encompass developing methods to analyze neuroimaging data, and why she has a particular interest in applying these methods to the study of sleep, and its importance for a healthy brain.

Twelve researchers, including a member of the IMES faculty, are selected as finalists for 2023-24 MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition to support female entrepreneurs in biotech.

The advance makes it easier to detect circulating tumor DNA in blood samples, which could enable earlier cancer diagnosis and help guide treatment.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers thinks health AI could benefit from some of the aviation industry’s long history of hard-won lessons that have created one of the safest activities today.

Associate Professor and IMES faculty member Lydia Bourouiba and artist Argha Manna take readers through a series of discoveries in infectious disease.

The diagnostic, which requires only a simple urine test to read the results, could make lung cancer screening more accessible worldwide.

The awards are for those who have made long-lasting contributions to the biomaterials discipline.

MIT Koch Institute researchers Daniel Anderson, who is also IMES faculty, and Ana Jaklenec, plus 11 MIT alumni, are honored for inventions that have made a tangible impact on society.

These compounds can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that causes deadly infections.