Philipp Simons named as 2018 Broshy Fellowship Recipient
Philipp Simons, a second year PhD student at Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), has been selected as 2018 Broshy Fellowship recipient. Philipp received $40,000 to develop his project, An All-Solid-State Glucose Micro Fuel Cell as an Implantable Power Source for the Human Body, with his advisor, Jennifer Rupp….
Read MoreRemembering Dr. Irving M. London, Founding Director of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program
It is with sorrow that we announce the death of Irving M. London, M.D., founding director of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. Dr. London’s life and accomplishments were recently celebrated on the occasion of his approaching 100th birthday by the HST community. We are very grateful that we were able to…
Read MoreArup K. Chakraborty awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Arup K. Chakraborty, the Robert T. Haslam Professor in Chemical Engineering and founding director of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. …
Read MoreProfessor Lydia Bourouiba featured on NPR’s Science Friday
In a Science Friday short film, “Breakthrough: Connecting the Drops,” Professor Lydia Bourouiba shows how she designs tests to study infectious disease transmission. First aired in April 2017, the video is one of a six-part series “Breakthrough: Portraits of Women in Science,” which Science Friday is releasing at select theaters nationwide in…
Read MoreIMES Professor Alex Shalek wins 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship
The Institute for Medical Engineering and Science’s Alex K. Shalek, is among the eight MIT researchers awarded with the 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship. Professor Shalek is the Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz Career Development Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Technology as well as an assistant professor of chemistry. Awarded annually…
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