Movement-enhancing exoskeletons may impair decision making
As engineers make strides in the design of wearable, electronically active, and responsive leg braces, arm supports, and full-body suits, collectively known as exoskeletons, researchers at MIT are raising an important question: While these Iron Man-like appendages may amp up a person’s strength, mobility, and endurance, what effect might they…
Read MoreAlex K. Shalek named 2018 Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research
Alex K. Shalek, Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Assistant Professor, has been named one of five 2018 Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research. This program is a partnership between The Pew Charitable Trusts and The Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust to support promising early career scientists whose research will accelerate discovery and advance…
Read MoreMartha Gray received 2018 Program Award for a Culture of Excellence in Mentoring
The IMPACT Program, a Health Sciences & Technology-HMS/MIT Program, is a recipient of the 2018 Program Award for a Culture of Excellence in Mentoring (PACEM) at Harvard Medical School. IMPACT is housed in IMES and co-led by Martha Gray (MIT) and Deborah Burstein (BIDMC). Emery Brown is a co-PI on…
Read MoreMEMP PhD Student, Or Gadish, received 2018 Goodwin Medal Award
Each year, MIT awards the Goodwin Medal to a Graduate Teaching Assistant or Instructor (G) who has performed above and beyond the norm, and whose teaching efforts can truly be characterized as “conspicuously effective.” This award was established in memory of Harry Manley Goodwin, the first dean of the graduate…
Read MoreInaugural class of MIT-GSK Gertrude B. Elion Research Fellows selected
Jay Mahat from the Sharp Lab at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Benjamin Mead from the Shalek Lab at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Nicholas Struntz from the Koehler Lab at the Koch Institute, and Sarvesh Varma from the Biological Microtechnology and BioMEMS Group at the…
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