MIT class focuses on life lived on wheels
Once a year for two hours, a group of able-bodied students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology take to the streets of Cambridge and their campus halls in wheelchairs, a news post by Alyssa Meyers recently published in the Boston Globe described. During another two-hour class period, they walk around the…
Read MoreNew way to test antibiotics could lead to better drugs
Study finds bacterial response to drugs varies in different environments. MIT and Harvard University researchers have engineered E. coli cells that can be used to study how bacteria at an infection site respond to antibiotic treatment, allowing scientists to learn more about how existing antibiotics work and potentially help them…
Read MoreCall for Applications: MIT-GSK Gertrude B. Elion Research Fellowship Program for Drug Discovery and Disease
Introduction Massachusetts Institute of Technology and GlaxoSmithKline are pleased to announce a new initiative to support research at MIT. The MIT-GSK Gertrude B. Elion Research Fellowship Program for Drug Discovery and Disease will fund up to three selected Fellows to conduct post-doctoral research at MIT, with a goal of promoting…
Read MoreUsing machine learning to improve patient care
New CSAIL research employs many types of medical data, including electronic health records, to predict outcomes in hospitals. Doctors are often deluged by signals from charts, test results, and other metrics to keep track of. It can be difficult to integrate and monitor all of these data for multiple patients…
Read MoreHST student Shriya Srinivasan improves amputation process
MEMP student Shriya Srinivasan, studying in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program (HST), the degree-granting educational arm of IMES, is featured in the September-October 2017 issue of Harvard Magazine for her work to improve the process for performing amputations. “Today’s state-of-the-art prosthetic limbs are scientific marvels, designed with robotics and sensors that…
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