AI for Healthcare and Life Sciences

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December 1, 2025

MIT scientists debut a generative AI model that could create molecules addressing hard-to-treat diseases

BoltzGen generates protein binders for any biological target from scratch, expanding AI’s reach from understanding biology toward engineering it.

October 15, 2025

Helping scientists run complex data analyses without writing code

Co-founded by an EECS alumnus, Watershed Bio offers researchers who aren’t software engineers a way to run large-scale analyses to accelerate biology.

MIA 10-Year Anniversary Celebration

🥳 You’re invited – please join us on Friday, October 17 for our MIA 10-Year Anniversary Celebration!  📅 Friday, October 17 📍 Broad Institute – 300 Binney St. (2110 – Charles) ✍️ Register

October 7, 2025

AI maps how a new antibiotic targets gut bacteria

MIT CSAIL and McMaster researchers used a generative AI model to reveal how a narrow-spectrum antibiotic attacks disease-causing bacteria, speeding up a process that normally takes years.

September 25, 2025

New AI system could accelerate clinical research

By enabling rapid annotation of areas of interest in medical images, the tool can help scientists study new treatments or map disease progression.

Yunha Hwang

Assistant Professor, shared appointment with Department of Biology, Samuel A. Goldblith Career Development Professor of Applied Biology, [AI+D]

yunha@mit.edu

617-258-7676

Office: 68-370A

August 29, 2025

MIT researchers develop AI tool to improve flu vaccine strain selection

VaxSeer uses machine learning to predict virus evolution and antigenicity, aiming to make vaccine selection more accurate and less reliant on guesswork.

Schmidt Center – MIT EECS Colloquium: Context in AI Research: Focus on Healthcare by Katherine Heller

Schmidt Center – MIT EECS Colloquium: Context in AI Research: Focus on Healthcare by Katherine Heller Tuesday, September 9, 20254:00 – 5:00 pm (refreshments at 3:30 pm)Broad Institute (Merkin Building,

August 22, 2025

3Qs: Caroline Uhler on biology and medicine’s “data revolution”

Caroline Uhler is Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Engineering; Professor of EECS and in IDSS; and Director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she is also a core institute and scientific leadership team member. Next year, she’ll deliver a sectional lecture to the International Congress of Mathematicians at their annual congress in Philadelphia, a high honor.

August 11, 2025

Building a lifeline for family caregivers across the US

Ianacare, co-founded by Steven Lee ’97, MEng ’98, equips caregivers with the resources, networks, and tools they need to support loved ones.