Ellen Roche named W.M. Keck Career Development Professor
IMES Core Faculty Member Ellen Roche has been appointed W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering at MIT. Currently an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and at IMES, as well as the Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz Career Development Professor, Roche, originally from Galway, Ireland, has merged medicine and engineering…
Read MoreDr. Judith Richter, co-founder of The NIR School of the Heart, speaks at uplifting lunch for women of IMES
IMES was privileged to receive Dr. Judith Richter, co-founder of The NIR School of the Heart and co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the cardiovascular firm Medinol, on May 30 for a visit and lunch geared toward the women of IMES and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology…
Read MoreEECS honors three IMES faculty members for excellence in teaching
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), during its recent EECS Celebrates 2019 ceremony, presented three IMES faculty members with the Burgess (1952) & Elizabeth Jamieson Prizes for Excellence in Teaching, recognizing outstanding teaching happening alongside first-rate research. Thomas Heldt, W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering…
Read MorePainting a fuller picture of how antibiotics act
Machine learning reveals metabolic pathways disrupted by the drugs, offering new targets to combat resistance. Most antibiotics work by interfering with critical functions such as DNA replication or construction of the bacterial cell wall. However, these mechanisms represent only part of the full picture of how antibiotics act. In a…
Read MoreStructure of T cell epitopes a decisive factor in natural HIV control, study finds
Researchers apply network theory to HIV protein structure, uncovering a vital link between connectivity and protective immune response. In 2017, nearly 37 million people were living with HIV worldwide, according to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Current treatments for the virus, which becomes AIDS in its most…
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