Congrats to Jon Jon Arizti Sanz sabeti_lab HST Medical Engineering PhD for the successful defense of his thesis “From Sample to Answer: Innovations in sample processing and CRISPR-based diagnostics for enhanced clinical translation and field deployment” 🎓 04.04.2024 1/12 🧵

Our study led by Harvard Medical School HST student Jiwoo Lee examines the overlapping and distinct lipoprotein features connected to common vascular disorders. Key insights include the role of small VLDL particles and TGs within HDL particles in ASCVD risk. ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

Pradeep Natarajan Harvard Medical School HST Jiwoo Lee Broad Institute MGH Cardiovascular Research Center Mass General Research Institute Mass General Heart CGM at MGH ATVB Council ATVB Early Career Committee AHA Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine Stunning !!!!!!!!!! natarajanlab.mgh.harvard.edu

Congratulations to J. W. Kieckhefer Professor Alex K. Shalek (Shalek Lab), the newly appointed Director of MIT IMES!

We proudly promote Natalie Artzi to its Core Faculty and appoint Di Feng as an Associate Faculty member. wyss.harvard.edu/news/wyss-inst…

Collin Stultz from MIT EECS and MIT IMES, is investigating how patients with cardiovascular disease could benefit from machine-learning techniques. betterworld.mit.edu/spectrum/issue…

We're excited that Alex Shalek (Shalek Lab )is the new Director of MIT IMES ! Thomas Heldt joins Collin Stultz as Associate Directors. IMES thanks Elazer Edelman (Harvard-MIT BMEC ) for his leadership MIT EECS HST MIT School of Engineering MIT Chemistry MIT Science bit.ly/4cohLkI

Congrats to the HST Academic Office Team MIT IMES for receiving the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Excellence Award for serving our community, one of the highest awards at MIT! Traci Anderson, Laurie Ward and Joe Stein! Well-deserved. bit.ly/3ysr8lH

We're excited to see everyone at central Graduate Student Orientation (including this great session from @MITLibraries)! If you're an incoming 2024 grad student, check your email and Engage account for all the details. 🥳 x.com/mitlibraries/s…

Alex Shalek, the J. W. Kieckhefer Professor in the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Sciences and MIT Chemistry, has been named the new director of MIT IMES news.mit.edu/2024/alex-shal…

My longtime executive assistant is retiring 😮 and we are looking for someone special to help run our team and support our bioengineering mission and lab culture. Please spread the word! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…

HST grad student Sayo Eweje is developing new technologies for delivering RNA and protein therapies directly to the body’s cells. “There are so many challenges in treating disease where the bottleneck ultimately comes down to delivery,” he says. mitsha.re/e5Kg50T8UnK

Happy birthday to MIT prof. Robert Langer, biotech expert & the world’s most-cited engineer. >1,400 patents. >1,500 papers. Co-founded Moderna & 40+ other biotech companies w/an estimated market cap of >$31 billion (Image: Boston Globe v/Getty Images). bit.ly/4e0Ansu

HST MD/PhD student Sayo Eweje seeks to develop new technologies for delivering RNA and protein therapies directly to the body’s cells. MIT IMES MIT School of Engineering Read more here: bit.ly/3Mr7h9J

Groundbreaking work by an outstanding Harvard Medical School HST MD-PhD student Sayo Eweje BIDMC Department of Surgery BIDMC

Professor Ellen Roche, an associate professor at MIT IMES and MIT MechE, is creating the next generation of medical devices to help repair hearts, lungs, and other tissues. news.mit.edu/2024/ellen-roc…

Happy National Student Parent Month! Each week this month OGE will feature a grad student parent. Check out @MIT_HST student Diana Grass, mom to two littles and passionate advocate for global health and equity in education! 💪🌎 ow.ly/h23b50TfNbM MIT IMES

In case you missed it: Marzyeh (MIT IMES,MIT EECS) and Alexander Gusev (Dana-Farber) comment on limiting bias in AI models for improved and equitable cancer care. Check it out: go.nature.com/3TdcndB

We know that bias is a major challenge for AI in health, so how can we make AI models fairer? In a paper for Nature Reviews Cancer, #JameelClinic PI Marzyeh & Dana-Farber's @alexandergusev discuss approaches to reducing bias in AI models for cancer: nature.com/articles/s4156…

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