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MIT to launch Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
Based in School of Engineering but spanning all of MIT, IMES will be led by Arup K. Chakraborty.
In an email to the MIT community on Wednesday, Provost L. Rafael Reif and Vice President for Research and Associate Provost Claude R. Canizares announced the establishment of a new Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) at MIT.
Reif and Canizares wrote that IMES intended to serve as a focal point and platform for research and education in medical engineering and science at MIT is expected to formally launch on July 1.
The creation of IMES follows from last May's recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee to Explore Options for the Structure of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) Efforts at MIT.
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