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Biomedical Sciences & Engineering
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Working at the cutting edge of engineering and medicine, our goal is to understand complex biological systems and engineer systems that solve important biological problems.
Biomedical Sciences and Engineering -
This summer has seen three new career development chairs appointed within the EECS faculty: Kevin Chen, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Mengjia Yan. Meet the new chairs here. -
July saw two new chair appointments within the department’s leadership. Please join us in congratulating Asu Ozdaglar and Joel Voldman on their accomplishments, and learn more about the new chairs here.MTL, RLE, InfoSys, ApplPhysDev, Biomed, Systems, Theory, bio-EECS, Connections, Multicore -
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Murray Eden, Emeritus Professor in Electrical Engineering at MIT, passed away on August 9, 2020, in Tucson, AZ. He was one week shy of his 100th birthday. -
Specialized nanoparticles create a “breath signal” that could be used to diagnose pneumonia and other infectious or genetic diseases. -
PhD student Geeticka Chauhan draws on her experiences as an international student to strengthen the bonds of her MIT community. -
Engineers design nanoparticles that stimulate the immune system, helping it to attack tumors. -
The new technique could help doctors determine whether patients are at risk from elevated pressure. -
Thanks to their work, doctors can now look at living tissue in new ways to diagnose eye disease, cancer, and other serious illnesses faster and more accurately. -
Ingestible electronic devices could monitor physiological conditions or deliver drugs. -
Cloud-based platform assists in managing, sharing data facilitates research. -
Measuring enzyme levels could help doctors select appropriate treatments. -
New technique offers precise manipulation of when and where genes are targeted. -
Engineers program human cells to store complex histories in their DNA. -
EECS senior Ava Soleimany talks about being captain of the women’s tennis team, leadership, and her research in synthetic biology. -
Collaboration has created a pioneering new graduate university in Russia, says project director. -
Senior Neerja Aggarwal reflects on her love for theater, ultimate Frisbee, and her journey to electrical engineering -
Dedicated researcher was a circuits expert developing a retinal implant to help the blind see. -
Low-power chip processes 3-D camera data, could enable wearable device to guide the visually impaired. -
Combining MRI and other data helps machine-learning systems predict effects of neurodegenerative disease. -
MIT researchers team up with Boston Medical Center and Philips to test a noninvasive way to measure intracranial pressure. -
System can convert MRI scans into 3D-printed, physical models in a few hours. -
Researchers find pathway that controls metabolism by prompting fat cells to store or burn fat. -
Sensors, memory switches, and circuits can be encoded in a common gut bacterium. -
Sangeeta Bhatia, member of the EECS faculty, of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and has teamed with researchers at the University of California at San Diego to create a new way to detect cancer that has spread to the liver by using probiotics — providing a way for earlier detection of cancers such as colon and pancreatic that typcially metastasize to the liver. Read more.
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