Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES)

Grant to fund nanotech therapies for traumatic brain injuries

May 10, 2013

MIT’s Sangeeta Bhatia is part of the research team funded by the $6 million DARPA grant.

Also labeled: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Health effects, Koch Institute, Awards, honors and fellowships

Making sense of medical sensors

April 19, 2013

Computer scientists and electrical engineers are devising algorithms that look for useful new patterns in data produced by medical sensors.

Also labeled: Engineering Health, Machine learning, Medical data mining, Medical devices, Signal processing, Medical sensors

Students have engineering on the brain

April 2, 2013

MIT class offers student teams a chance to create business ventures based on neurotechnology research.

Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Biomedicine, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Neuroscience, Biomedical engineering, Neurotechnology, Engineering Health

Study offers new way to discover HIV vaccine targets

March 21, 2013

Ragon Institute researchers develop a method to identify weak points in viral proteins that could be exploited for vaccine development.

Also labeled: Chemistry and chemical engineering, Health care, HIV/AIDS, Physics, Proteins, Ragon Institute, Vaccination, Vaccines, Gag protein

Practicing medicine at the nanoscale

March 11, 2013

New approaches to drug delivery offer hope for new, more targeted treatments.

Also labeled: Cancer, Chemistry and chemical engineering, Drug delivery, Engineering Health, Implantable medical devices, Koch Institute, Materials science, Materials Science and Engineering, Nanoscience and nanotechnology, RNA interference, Layer by layer assembly

How the brain loses and regains consciousness

March 4, 2013

Study reveals brain patterns produced by a general anesthesia drug; work could help doctors better monitor patients.

Also labeled: Anesthesia, Brain and cognitive sciences, Electroencephalogram (EEG), Health, Health care, Health sciences and technology, Propofol, Neuroscience

Sterilizing with the sun

February 26, 2013

Solar concentrating system could replace fuel-powered or electric devices in remote villages.

Also labeled: Alternative energy, Biomedical materials, D-Lab, Development, Energy, Engineering Health, Mechanical engineering, Medical devices, Students, Health, Health care

Bringing a new perspective to infectious disease

February 8, 2013

Enlisted in the fight against HIV, MIT engineers and scientists contribute new technology, materials and computational studies.

Also labeled: Engineering Health, Biological engineering, Chemistry and chemical engineering, HIV/AIDS, Immunology, Materials Science and Engineering, Medicine, Ragon Institute, Research, Koch Institute

MIT students create new medical devices

January 30, 2013

Precision machine design class links doctors with students to find ways of meeting pressing medical needs for new technology.

Also labeled: Engineering Health, Entrepreneurship, Graduate, postdoctoral, Health, Health care, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Mechanical engineering, Medical devices, Undergraduate, Mechanical design, Students

Big medical data

January 25, 2013

At the intersection of medicine and computer science, researchers look for clinically useful correlations amid mountains of information.

Also labeled: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Artificial intelligence, Big data, Medical data mining, Engineering Health, Computer science and technology, Health care, Health sciences and technology, Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

New material harvests energy from water vapor

January 10, 2013

Polymer film could be used in artificial muscle and to power micro- and nanoelectronic devices.

Also labeled: Chemistry and chemical engineering, Energy, Koch Institute, Faculty, Graduate, postdoctoral, Health sciences and technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Materials science, Materials Science and Engineering, Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), Nanoelectronics, Nanoscience and nanotechnology, Polymers, Research

Tiny tools help advance medical discoveries

January 8, 2013

MIT researchers are designing tools to analyze cells at the microscale.

Also labeled: Biological engineering, Diagnostic devices, Mechanical engineering, Metamaterials, Microfluidics, Nanoscience and nanotechnology, Biomedicine, Engineering Health, Health, Health care, Health sciences and technology, Medicine, Membranes, Imaging, Lab-on-a-chip, Cancer, Cells, Tumors, Optogenetics, Graduate, postdoctoral, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Research

The health-insurance markets of the (very near) future

January 2, 2013

Policymakers must address ‘tension’ between competition and ease of use.

Also labeled: Economics, Health care, Insurance, Personal finance, Health, Policy, Politics, Engineering Health

New technology may enable earlier cancer diagnosis

December 16, 2012

Nanoparticles amplify tumor signals, making them much easier to detect in the urine.

Also labeled: Cancer, Computer science and technology, Diagnostic devices, Electrical engineering and electronics, Health, Health sciences and technology, Koch Institute, Nanoscience and nanotechnology, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Research

Tissue engineering: Growing new organs, and more

December 14, 2012

Research could lead to better ways to heal injuries and develop new drugs.

Also labeled: Health sciences and technology, Disease, Liver, Tissue engineering, Liver disease, Cancer, Kidney disease, Biological engineering, Health, Health care, Medicine, Transplantation, Engineering Health

Taking the sting out of medical tape

October 29, 2012

New adhesive comes off quickly, sparing infants’ delicate skin from damage.

Also labeled: Chemistry and chemical engineering, Health, Health care, Materials science, Adhesives, Health sciences and technology, Medical tape