Top, left to right: Mohammad Alizadeh, Kwanghun Chung, Areg Danagoulian, Ruonan Han. Bottom, left to right: Heather Kulik, Elsa Olivetti, Alberto Rodriguez, James Swan.
Eight faculty members, including an HST faculty member, have been granted tenure in five departments across the MIT School of Engineering.
Multimodal nanosensors (1) are engineered to target and respond to hallmarks in the tumor microenvironment. The nanosensors provide both a noninvasive urinary monitoring tool (2) and an on-demand medical imaging agent (3) to localize tumor metastasis and assess response to therapy. Credits: Image: Liangliang Hao
Shriya Srinivasan is honored for her surgical techniques which have provided a sense of touch to people with prosthetic limbs.
HST alum Lina Colucci, in her bedroom in 2006 and following IDEO’s User-Centered Design Methodology. Note the IDEO 3.0 sign on her bedroom wall. Photo credit: Jose Colucci.
HST MEMP alum Lina Colucci shares her journey founding a company following the advice of IDEO founder David Kelley to "work with your friends"
Engineers at MIT and Harvard have designed a prototype face mask that can diagnose the person wearing the mask with Covid-19 within about 90 minutes. The technology can also be used to design wearable sensors for a variety of other pathogens or toxic chemicals.
The sensor technology, developed by researchers at MIT and Harvard, including an HST faculty member, could also be used to create clothing that detects a variety of pathogens and other threats.
