Alumni Spotlights | Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology

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.

For Julie Greenberg, a career of research, mentoring, and advocacy

The longtime academic leader of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology reflects on her time spent guiding students at the intersection of medicine and engineering.

Elazer R. Edelman, an HST alum, wins Founders Award from the Society for Biomaterials

The award is for those who have made long-lasting contributions to the biomaterials discipline.

Shriya Srinivasan, an HST MEMP PhD 2020 graduate research

Engineers, including an HST alum, develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity

Swallowing the device before a meal could create a sense of fullness, tricking the brain into thinking it’s time to stop eating.

Twelve with MIT ties elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2023

Five MIT faculty, including an HST faculty member, and three HST MD alumni, are honored for outstanding contributions to medical research.