Alumni in Greater China boost MIT’s PPE efforts
A six-week donation drive yields 15,000 N95 respirator masks and 1,000 medical gowns for use in Massachusetts hospitals. When coronavirus cases in Massachusetts began to increase in early March, the MIT community sprang into action. By late March, more than 50 MIT departments, labs, and centers had donated extra, unopened personal…
Read MoreHST MD student Jin K. Park shares his Dreamer story
DACA Isn’t What Made Me an American Being a Dreamer is. Jin K. Park, an MD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST), and a second-year medical student at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was the first Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient to win a…
Read MoreHST students received many awards, honors and fellowships this year
Several HST students received honors, fellowships and awards during the 2019-2020 academic year, including Constantine Tzouanas, an HST Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (MEMP) PhD student; and Mark Aurel Nagy, an HST MD student. The 2019-2020 academic year has been challenging, but rewarding, for students in the Harvard-MIT Program in…
Read MoreIMES director’s “new normal” is anything but
Covid-19 has upended routines across MIT. For professor and cardiologist Elazer Edelman, head of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), that’s meant there’s no such thing as a typical day. The following story originally appeared in MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/16/1002999/a-professors-new-normal-is-anything-but/ Since the covid-19 pandemic took hold in…
Read MoreMIT-Takeda program launches
Research projects, including some led by IMES faculty members, will harness the power of artificial intelligence to positively impact human health. In February, researchers from MIT and Takeda Pharmaceuticals joined together to celebrate the official launch of the MIT-Takeda Program. The MIT-Takeda Program aims to fuel the development and application…
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