Alumni Spotlights | Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology

Three questions for Thomas Heldt: Leveraging insights to enable clinical outcomes

Thomas Heldt, associate director of IMES, and a core faculty member, describes the impact of his research on clinical outcomes.

License plates of MIT

Custom plates display expressions of scholarship, creativity, and MIT pride among Institute affiliates.

HST MD grad Alaleh Azhir’s mission: exploring and improving health care delivery for women

Her goal is to investigate how health conditions may present differently by gender, and how to devise more effective treatments for women accordingly.

HST MEMP grad Carmen Martin Alonso looks ahead to a bright future as a medical researcher

Awarded a provisional patent for her work on liquid biopsy “priming agents,” Martin Alonso hopes to soon be the founding scientist of a start-up.

Inside the Operating Room: Doctors Test a Revolutionary Brain-Computer Implant

A Wall Street Journal piece focused on efforts to commercialize brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, and the involvement of two HST alums. An operation that temporarily implanted a BCI in a patient, moves it one step closer toward becoming a standard of care.