Braida was internationally known for his hearing impairment research Louis Braida, the Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), died September 2. He was 79. Braida was a principal researcher in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and a faculty member…

Finlayson will soon begin a medical residency in Pediatrics and Clinical Genetics at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the University of Washington Sam Finlayson’s path to becoming a medical professional grew out of a series of health struggles—his own, as well as that of a beloved family member. “My interest in…

Brown, and three other scientists, recognized for advancing statistical, theoretical analyses of neuroscience data The Gruber Foundation recently announced that Emery N. Brown, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience, and a core faculty member and investigator at the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES),…

Award is part of a larger, multipdisciplinary team grant to study biophysics of tuberculosis transmission MIT Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba, an affiliate faculty member at the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), is part of a multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary team that received $16 million from the National Institutes…

Dr. Zapol is remembered by the HST and IMES community for his generosity in spending time with students, and for his enthusiasm in introducing MIT graduate students to clinical and translational research. Warren M. Zapol, MD, 79, the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) emeritus Anesthetist-in-Chief (from 1994 to 2008), the Reginald…