MEMP PhD students enrolled through MIT can work in the labs of any Harvard or MIT faculty member, including those at the many local institutions affiliated with Harvard and with MIT. They gain foundational knowledge from their chosen MEMP concentration area and the rest of their academic training, developing the rigorous engineering and quantitative skills needed to address pressing challenges in human health and medicine. Guided by their faculty advisors, students apply this expertise to original thesis research spanning a broad and interdisciplinary range of fields.
Current areas of thesis research include:
Research Area
| Description
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| Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Biomedical Research | Artificial Intelligence with biomedical/healthcare applications |
| Biomedical Imaging, Signal processing, and Inference | Imaging hardware, Computational imaging, Neuroimaging, Signal/image computer vision, Signal/image processing, Estimation |
| Biophysics and Fluid Dynamics | Biological physics & statistical modeling, Fluid and soft-matter physics, biological fluid dynamics |
| Extreme Environment and Space Medicine | Remote Area and Limited Resource Medicine, Pre-hospital Care, Space and Aviation Physiology, Human performance, Life support systems |
| Immunobiology and Infectious Diseases | Microbiology, Disease transmission, Microbial communities, Bacterial defense mechanisms, Epidemiology, Human Microbiome |
| Medical Devices and Healthcare Technology | Biomaterials, Sensing modalities, Biomedical electronics, Instrumentation, actuation |
| Molecular and Cellular Engineering | Molecular/genomic mechanisms/sensing, Engineered systems for diagnostics and therapy |
| Neuroscience and Neuro-engineering | The study and engineering of nervous systems in health and disease |
| Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering | Engineering human or animal cells, Tissues, or organs |
