Collin Stultz named Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
Collin Stultz, professor of biomedical engineering in the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department, and a core faculty member for the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), has been named to the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program. Stultz, a practicing cardiologist at the Massachusetts General…
Read MoreFuture Founders Initiative aims to increase female entrepreneurship in biotech
MIT faculty, including an IMES faculty member, collaborate with members of the Boston-area biotech community to commercialize women’s discoveries and promote female entrepreneurship. The gender disparity in biotech really got Sangeeta Bhatia’s attention while she was on sabbatical. Bhatia had taken a year to focus on her startup biotech company,…
Read MoreBehind closed doors: Insight into stroke recovery
Researchers, including from MIT and IMES, used clinical samples to gain a rare view into stroke recovery in real-time. A stroke, like any traumatic event in the body, triggers an immune response and understanding this immune response is critical to improve patient outcomes and nominate new therapeutics. But immune responses…
Read MoreNew surgery may enable better control of prosthetic limbs
Reconnecting muscle pairs during amputation gives patients more sensory feedback from the limb, according to MIT researchers, including an HST alum and a current HST student. MIT researchers have invented a new type of amputation surgery that can help amputees to better control their residual muscles and sense where their…
Read MoreMetabolic mutations help bacteria resist drug treatment
A study by MIT researchers, including an IMES faculty member, suggests forcing bacteria to burn more energy could make them more susceptible to antibiotics. Bacteria have many ways to evade the antibiotics that we use against them. Each year, at least 2.8 million people in the United States develop an…
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