First-year MEMP HST student Jordan Harrod recounts 2018 InCube experience
As part of the ETH Entrepreneur Club’s InCube2018 hackathon, students around the world were challenged to imagine the “ambulance of the future” — all while living in a glass box. A team at MIT, including HST MEMP student Jordan Harrod, developed AugMedic, a system designed to help paramedics accurately identify…
Read MoreGeorge Chao, HST student, part of winning team at opioid epidemic innovation challenge
Over an activity-packed weekend in late September, doctors, government officials, public health experts, and other stakeholders in the fight against the national opioid addiction crisis came together to generate solutions with the potential for long-term impact, at the Empire State Opioid Innovation Challenge in New York City. Twelve teams competed…
Read MoreEven on standardized diet, gut flora change from day to day
Researchers are only beginning to understand how the gut microbiome – the vital community of microorganisms that live in our intestines – interacts with our bodies and the food we eat. For doctors and scientists, the challenge lies in predicting whether changes to gut microbes are associated with either disease,…
Read MoreAvilash Cramer wins first place in AAPM Young Investigators Symposium
Avilash Cramer, an HST MEMP doctoral candidate, was granted the John R. Cameron* Young Investigator award at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting. Avilash’s award was given for his presentation titled “A Stationary Computed Tomography Module Using Photocathode-Driven X-Ray Sources.” Avilash works in the lab of Dr….
Read MoreStudy: Cellular changes lead to chronic allergic inflammation in the sinus
Chronic rhinosinusitis is distinct from your average case of seasonal allergies. It causes the sinuses to become inflamed and swollen for months to years at a time, leading to difficulty breathing and other symptoms that make patients feel miserable. In some people, this condition also produces tissue outgrowths known as…
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