We hope you will join us for the 55th Anniversary Celebration of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST) on Friday, November 7 and Saturday, November 8.
This exciting event provides the opportunity to re-connect with the HST experience and with the HST community. The Friday dinner at MIT will include a fireside chat with Sally Kornbluth, MIT President, and Alan Garber, Harvard University President, moderated by George Q. Daley, Dean of Harvard Medical School, and HST alum. Stay tuned to the HST 55th Anniversary page as more program details become finalized.
We encourage faculty and alumni to secure their seat now, registration will open for HST students in October. Please check your email for the registration link! If you have not received the registration link via your alumni or faculty listserv, please contact the planning committee at HST-55th [at] mit.edu (HST-55th[at]mit[dot]edu).
We are looking forward to celebrating with you!
Every year since 1974, MIT has honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and celebrated his extraordinary contributions to society with a community gathering.
The Institute’s next annual MLK celebration will take place on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, drawing its theme from a speech Dr. King delivered in Washington, DC, in February 1968. As he said then, “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
As we look forward to the celebration, we encourage you to nominate a member of the MIT community to receive a 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award.
This award honors members of our community who, in the spirit of Dr. King, lift us up, restore our hope and bring us together – whether they are students, alumni, staff or faculty, pursuing their goals as individuals or in groups.
Please use this form to submit your nomination on or before Monday, December 1, 2025.
Who is eligible?
MIT undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, staff and faculty are eligible for nomination for this award. Both individuals and groups, including living groups and student and professional associations, may be considered.
Service to the community is defined in the broadest sense and includes academic, research, religious and secular contributions in which integrity, leadership, creativity and positive outcomes are apparent.
For more information, please visit the MLK Leadership Awards website or write to mitmlkcelebration [at] mit.edu (mitmlkcelebration[at]mit[dot]edu).
*Originally published in MIT News.
Professor Ioannis Yannas, pioneer of regenerative medicine who invented artificial skin for the treatment of severe burns, dies at 90.A beloved member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering for nearly 60 years, Yannas helped saved the lives of thousands of burn victims through his research and innovation.
Professor Ioannis V. Yannas SM ’59, a physical chemist and engineer known for the invention of artificial skin for the treatment of severe burns, and a longtime member of the MIT faculty, died on Oct. 19 at the age of 90.
“Professor Yannas was a beloved and distinguished colleague, teacher, and mentor. The impact of his inventions, and his legacy on the field of bioengineering was immense,” says John Hart, the Class of 1922 Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Yannas, known to friends and colleagues as Yanni, held appointments in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST). His principal research interest throughout his career was the process of induced organ regeneration used to replace organs that are either severely injured or terminally diseased. His work also advanced the clinical use of collagen tubes to treat peripheral nerve injuries.
In 1969, when Yannas approached the late John Burke of Massachusetts General Hospital to collaborate, Burke took him on a tour of a children’s burn unit. “There was a great deal of human misery that was confronting me, and I felt I had to do something about it,” said Yannas in later interviews. In 1981, the pair announced their success: an amalgam of a silicone outer sheet over a scaffolding of molecular material drawn from cow tendon and shark cartilage. Offering protection from infection and dehydration, the scaffolding enabled healthy skin cells to grow. Their discovery would be transformative for the treatment of burn victims.
Their artificial skin, patented and now manufactured as Integra, is still widely used on patients with severe and extensive burns, and for other applications including some types of plastic surgery and the treatment of chronic skin wounds commonly suffered by people with diabetes. The groundbreaking advance, which was later recognized as the first example of organ regeneration in adults, had previously been considered impossible.
“Yanni’s boldness in attacking a wide array of medical problems, including spinal cord transection, in his investigations of applications of collagen-based implants, inspired others, including myself, to work toward solutions to devastating conditions such as blindness, stroke, and spinal cord injury,” says Myron Spector, professor emeritus of orthopedic surgery (biomaterials) at Massachusetts General Brigham and Harvard Medical School, and an affiliate of HST. Yannas and Spector created several MIT courses together, including 2.79 (Biomaterial-Tissue Interactions).
“As we were talking about the content [for 2.79], Yanni proposed that we codify the cell behavior underlying the tissue response to implants,” explains Spector. “Within a short time, we laid out the plan for ‘unit cell processes’ to offer students a code to decipher the often inconceivably complex cellular processes that not only underlie the tissue response to implants, but that can guide the selection of the tools necessary to engineer medical devices and reveal their targets for treatment. This was all Yanni, taking a fundamental concept, the control volume used in chemical engineering to analyze systems, and applying it to cellular processes in the human body. I since use UCPs myself all the time.”
As a colleague serving as a collaborator in teaching and in research, Spector says Yannas was eager to help and to learn, bold in his thinking, smart in his choices, able to keep his eye on the goal, respectful of students as well as faculty and other colleagues, and selfless. “These are just the traits that we teach our students to look for when seeking the collaborators who are so necessary in science and engineering.”
Yannas was born on April 14, 1935, in Athens, Greece, where he completed his high school education at Athens College. He received a BA in chemistry at Harvard College in 1957, followed by an MS in chemical engineering from MIT in 1959. After a period of industrial research on polymers at W. R. Grace & Co., in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he attended Princeton University, where he completed an MS degree in 1965 and a PhD in 1966, both in physical chemistry. Yannas joined the MIT faculty immediately thereafter and remained at the Institute for the next 59 years until his passing.
For his discoveries in organ regeneration, Yannas was elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (1987), the National Inventors Hall of Fame (2015), and the National Academy of Engineering (2017). He was also elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering.
Further, he was the recipient of many prestigious awards including the Society for Biomaterials Founders Award (1982) and the Society’s Clemson Award for Applied Science and Engineering (1992). He was an author of numerous journal articles, and the sole author of the influential book, “Tissue and Organ Regeneration in Adults.”
Yannas’ work, and 2015 induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, was the subject of “Hope Regenerated,” a video produced by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. The film chronicles the development of Integra, which was initially characterized as a “failed experiment” but became a life-saving discovery that launched a new field of regenerative medicine.
“My father's relationship with MIT was deeply meaningful to him,” says Tania Yannas Kluzak. “He regarded MIT as the ideal partner in his life's work — pioneering lifesaving research in organ regeneration.”
Yannas was predeceased by his brother, Pavlos. He is survived by his two children, Tania Kluzak and her husband Gordon, and Alexi Yannas and his wife Maria; his grandchildren — Alexandra, Marina, Sophia, Philippos, and Nefeli; his sister, Elizabeth Sitinas; and many loving relatives and friends. A celebration of life will be announced at a later date.
Announcements will be updated regularly.
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Can you help promote HST by talking to prospective students?
Contact Laurie Ward (laurie [at] mit.edu (l)aurie [at] mit.edu (aurie[at]mit[dot]edu)) for talking points and promotional materials to distribute.
A link to an HST Programs Slide to include in your presentations can be found here.
Fall 2025 Topic: Healthcare Systems
The course provides a foundational overview of how health care is organized, delivered, financed, and accessed across diverse settings. Through expert guest speakers students will explore the structures and challenges of modern health systems—from hospital operations to global innovation models. Emphasis is placed on understanding how health technologies interact with economic, political, and social systems, equipping students with systems-thinking tools essential for impactful research and innovation.
November 13
Comparative Health Systems
Tim Ferris
November 20
Paying for Health: Insurance, Reimbursement & Cost Control
Andrew Lo
TBD
Hospital Operations & Decision Making
December 4
Future of Health Systems (potential topic) & Course wrap-up
Tim Ferris + TBD
If you have further questions, please contact the course coordinator Abigail Jackson at abigaimj [at] mit.edu (abigaimj[at]mit[dot]edu)
Are you a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or faculty member looking for a UROP for IAP and/or the Spring term?
MBG is excited to host our Fall 2025 Life Sciences UROP Mixer – connecting undergrads passionate about life sciences to labs interested in recruiting. Based on feedback from prior iterations, it's a great way for mentors to find students who are interested in the same projects. We will also provide dinner for all registered mentors!
If you are a grad student or postdoc interested in recruiting UROPs, please fill out the RSVP form linked here. The mixer will take place on Thursday, November 13 from 6:00-8:00pm in the Student Center 3rd floor Mezzanine Lounge.
Please do not hesitate to reach out to cartertr [at] mit.edu (cartertr[at]mit[dot]edu) with questions.
The MIT Teaching + Learning Lab Grad Teaching Development Tracks are sets of short, interactive workshops intended for graduate students interested in improving their teaching skills while teaching at MIT or applying for faculty positions in the future.
The Subject Design Track is an online sequence of three workshops focused on course design. Participants will learn to build a course by first identifying goals and then organizing assignments and content to align with these goals. Over the course of the program, participants will develop a syllabus for a course of their choice with feedback from the instructor.
The application will be open from Monday, December 1 at 12pm through Sunday, December 7 at 11:59pm
Online Workshop Dates
Any graduate student is welcome to apply. Participants from previous workshop tracks have priority. After that, applicants are selected on a first-come, first-served basis.
To access the application and to learn more information about the program, please visit the Teaching + Learning Lab website.
f you have additional questions or encounter difficulty with the application, please contact Ben Hansberry.
Focuses on the key leadership capabilities needed in today's increasingly decentralized organizations: sensemaking, relating, visioning, and inventing. Through conceptual discussions, small group exercises, and self-reflection in a workshop setting, students examine a model of leadership, assess their leadership strengths and weaknesses, articulate their values and aspirations, and practice developing leadership capabilities in interaction with class members. Admission by application.
6-unit (P/F) graduate-level course that meets the Sloan leadership requirement.
Sections
Eligibility
Instructors
DEADLINE TO APPLY IS MONDAY, DECEMBER 8
Applications will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis through December 8. After that date, consideration will depend on space availability.
If you have any questions about the course, please contact the course TA Chen Liang at bjcliang [at] mit.edu (bjcliang[at]mit[dot]edu).
Take an IAP class or workshop with EAPS!
12.S594: Special Seminar in EAPS — Auditory Perception of Natural Data, Part I (Direct Sonification of Oscillatory Signals)
Instructor: Professor Ben Holtzman
Level: G (undergrads welcome, check with instructor)
Schedule: January 12-16, 2026; 2:00-5:00 pm
Units: 2
Most of the wave-like phenomena in nature are far outside of the range of our direct perception, above and below, in spatial and temporal scales. Data representing such processes comes from sensors with often sparse, incomplete information. Usually, as scientists, we look at these signals and then design processing schemes to make inferences. However, our visual perception is not necessarily optimized for extracting meaning from waves. Often, we can gain significant, complementary or deeper insight by listening to it. So why don’t we? Sonification is the process of turning data of any kind into an audible representation. Any oscillatory signal can be frequency-shifted into our audible range and played as a sound. Our auditory perception has better temporal resolution than our visual perception, and is particularly attuned to interpretation of dynamics, including cause and effect, forcing and response. Combining visual and auditory representations of data can help us understand complex spatial-temporal interactions among events.
In this short, project-based course, we will first provide methods for sonification of oscillatory data (in python), and discuss simple to increasingly complex implementations (filtering, time compression/expansion), and spatialized audio for listening to multiple sensors simultaneously. We will also discuss when these methods break down (for non-oscillatory, non-stationary data). During the first two class sessions, we will explain and illustrate these methods with some of our current work on the wide range of length and time scales of earthquakes in a range of settings (including volcanoes, geothermal heat mines, tectonic faults, and the laboratory). Most of the class (days 3-5) will be for student projects. Please bring ideas for your own datasets to sonify, from your research or otherwise, from any domain. I can also provide datasets. At the end of the week, everyone will present their sounds, explain the phenomenon, the sensing method, and the research questions being explored through their sonification, and discuss questions generated in the process of making and listening.
Asteroid Impact Alert! A Planetary Defense Simulation Workshop
(Non-credit | Open to all MIT students | Prerequisite: Basic Python coding ability)
An asteroid is on a collision course with Earth — can you help save the planet?
In this interactive IAP workshop, participants will simulate a real planetary defense mission: assessing asteroid impact risks, designing a spacecraft to deflect it, and calculating what happens if the mission fails. Along the way, you’ll explore orbital mechanics, impact physics, and spacecraft imaging — and maybe even avenge the dinosaurs.
Schedule:
Location: TBD
Lecturer: Dr. Saverio Cambioni
Format: Short lectures and collaborative coding exercises
No credit, no stress — just science, strategy, and saving the world. Sign up here.
If you have any question about these opportunities, please contact Ann Greaney-Williams at agreaney [at] mit.edu (agreaney[at]mit[dot]edu).
New Winter Session Offering: Global Nutrition in Action (NUT 223)
Connecting students to the frontlines of global nutrition
Most courses give you the theory. This course takes you further.
In Global Nutrition in Action (2.5 credits), you will connect directly with the organizations and practitioners designing and implementing today’s most innovative nutrition programs around the world. We’ll spotlight real-world case studies on pressing challenges for programs in the areas of maternal malnutrition, infant and young child feeding, cash transfers, nutrition-health packages, and agriculture-based interventions. You’ll hear directly from leaders at NGOs and multilateral agencies—professionals who are shaping how global nutrition is practiced every day.
Instructor:
Sheila Isanaka, ScD
Associate Professor of Nutrition
Departments of Nutrition and Global Health and Population
What makes this course unique?
Why take this course?
If you want to move beyond academic theory and see how nutrition programs actually work in the field—with all their complexity, tradeoffs, and constraints—this course will give you that experience. You’ll gain insight into the challenges of implementation, sharpen your ability to analyze program design, and build a network of practitioners and peers who share your commitment to global health and nutrition.
Enrollment is limited to 15 students to ensure meaningful engagement with faculty, peers, and guest experts. There are no prerequisites, and the course is open to students from all backgrounds with an interest in global health and nutrition. Open for cross-registration for graduate students.
If you have further questions about the course, please contact the instructor at sisanaka [at] hsph.harvard.edu (sisanaka[at]hsph[dot]harvard[dot]edu).
MIT Bootcamps are immersive educational experiences focused on innovation and entrepreneurship. They are collaborating with the NIH/NIDA to put on a program focused on substance use disorder (SUD), called SUD Ventures.
There is an opportunity for students, and others, to be participants of the program. Additionally, there are a number of webinars coming up regarding this topic.
If you’d like to learn more, please contact MIT Bootcamps director Hanna Adeyema at hadeyema [at] mit.edu (hadeyema[at]mit[dot]edu) to discuss potential collaborations.
MIT Health Community Wellness serves all members of the MIT community, regardless of insurance coverage.
Our programs and resources give you the health and wellness tools you need to thrive at MIT.
This year, the MIT community is adapting to new ways of taking care of ourselves and others. If you’d like to connect with your community, stay active, sleep better, relieve stress, and more, Community Wellness at MIT Medical can help you find wellness programs that fit your needs.
View all Community Wellness classes here.
The Writing and Communication Center offers free one-on-one professional advice from communication specialists with advanced degrees and publishing experience. The WCC can help you further develop your oral communication skills and learn about all types of academic and professional writing.
WCC Individual Consultations
During these consultations, you can work on your written or oral projects with WCC instructors who can guide you at all stages of your communication process.
WCC has prepared a series of workshops on style, literature review writing, and other topics. You can register for our offerings through this link.
For more information on WCC programs, check the WCC website.
Our Mission
The Teaching + Learning Lab (TLL) partners with MIT educators, staff, and administrators to create a reflective educational environment where students are academically challenged, actively engaged, and personally supported.
Find information on upcoming TLL programs, speakers, workshops, etc. here.
Upcoming Grad Teaching Tracks
Grad Teaching Development Tracks are sets of short, interactive workshops intended for graduate students interested in improving their teaching skills while teaching at MIT or applying for faculty positions in the future.
Find more information on the Teaching Tracks here.
For any questions about programs and resources available to graduate students through the TLL, contact Ben Hansberry, Assistant Director for Graduate Student Teaching (bhansber [at] mit.edu (bhansber[at]mit[dot]edu))
Subscribe here to the TLL Newsletter.
Harvard Catalyst works with Harvard University’s schools and affiliate academic healthcare centers to build and grow an environment focused on team science – where discoveries are rapidly and efficiently translated to improve human health. We catalyze research across all clinical and translational domains by providing investigators with opportunities such as pilot funding, free resources such as biostatistics consultations, training and mentoring programs, and numerous courses. To facilitate communication, collaboration, and data collection, our informatics team develops a range of open-source tools available to the community within Harvard University and beyond.
Information on courses and training through Harvard Catalyst can be found here.
A calendar of Harvard Catalyst events can be found here.
Subscribe to the Harvard Catalyst Newsletter here.
Information about the Harvard i-lab and it's upcoming events and activities can be found here.
Please join us for the 2025 MIT Club of Boston BioSummit, "Innovation at the Intersection of AI and Life Sciences: TechBio and MedTech Frontier"!
The MIT Club of Boston’s BioSummit on AI in Healthcare creates a collaborative space where professionals across disciplines come together to explore how technology is transforming drug development, patient care, and the broader health ecosystem.
Hosted in partnership with the MIT Department of Biology, this year’s biosummit is uniquely positioned at the intersection of academia, industry, and policy. It brings together MIT faculty, pharmaceutical and biotech leaders, startup innovators, and policymakers to exchange ideas, spark innovation, and build meaningful connections.
Within Boston’s HealthTech ecosystem, the BioSummit offers a rare opportunity to engage directly with the leaders shaping the future of AI in life sciences from foundational research to real-world implementation.
Thursday, November 13 from 1:30-5pm in the Koch Biology Building (Building 68), Rooms 180/181 (31 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139)
To view the full agenda, please visit the event website here.
Please join us for the next session of the Health Systems Initiative (HSI) Lunch Seminar Series:
AI Agents: Accelerants for Drug Discovery & Commercialization
This session will explore how AI agents are impacting the pharmaceutical landscape from initial drug discovery to successful commercialization. Attendees will gain insights into the practical applications of these intelligent systems and their potential to overcome long-standing challenges in bringing novel therapies to patients faster.
Wednesday, November 12 from 11:30am-1pm in E62-450
Register at Sloan Groups. Zoom option available!
Speakers:
Tim Sun, MBA
Tim has 10+ years of experience at Google bringing AI technologies to market. He currently works on the Cloud Go-to-Market team, partnering with leading Biotech companies on using AI to accelerate drug discovery and commercialization. Tim graduated from Sloan with an MBA in 2014. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two kids.
Harison Hong, MD, MBA
Harison Hong is a physician-executive with over 10 years of biopharma leadership experience across global and US commercial strategy and drug launches. He has led multiple successful launches, including Dupixent ($14Bn) and Nemluvio, and currently serves as Executive Director, Brand Lead for navenibart at Astria Therapeutics. A board-certified physician and 2014 Sloan MBA graduate, he is particularly interested in how AI is transforming drug commercialization and accelerating patient access. He is also passionate about traveling and soccer and he lives with his wife and son in Newton.
If you have any questions about this event, or have any dietary concerns, please contact Lisa Maloney at lmaloney [at] mit.edu (lmaloney[at]mit[dot]edu).
Imagine a future where breakthroughs in health sciences and semiconductors converge to accelerate discovery, transform medicine, and deliver personalized care at scale. This November, join the world’s leading minds in health sciences and semiconductors for a one-day symposium that will redefine what’s possible in healthcare innovation.
You’ll be part of a dynamic community of clinicians, researchers, investors, and industry pioneers. Together, we’ll explore the latest advances, tackle the toughest challenges, and chart new pathways from research to real-world impact. The afternoon features high-energy sessions with renowned clinicians, top researchers, and venture experts, designed to ignite collaboration and inspire action.
Date: November 20, 2025
Time: Registration at 9:30 AM | Program begins at 10:00 AM
Location: The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Merkin Building, 415 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142
Why attend:
View the agenda and register now here!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Please join us for the November session of our TLL Speaker Series!
Compass: An Experiment in Collaboration
Last spring, the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) launched the pilot of its new multidisciplinary offering, 21.01 Compass Course: Love, Death, and Taxes: How to Think–and Talk to Others–About Being Human. The course is designed to expose students with the tools of the humanities and social sciences to consider persistent moral and social questions central to the human experience, ultimately guiding them in shaping the kind of humans they want to be and the society they wish to help create.
Compass is the result of a multi-year collaboration involving over 30 faculty from 19 departments, led by a core SHASS team and a student advisory board. Members of the Compass team, including Lily Tsai, Adam Albright, Emily Richmond Pollock, and Leela Fredlund, will discuss the challenges and rewards of large collaborations. They will show how collaborative design resulted in a Compass pedagogy that highlights the unexpected results of multidisciplinary conversations and fosters faculty vulnerability through the teaching of unfamiliar topics, transforming the class into a true collaboration between faculty and students.
Thursday, November 13 at 3pm via Zoom
All are welcome! Please register via Zoom.
About the Speakers:
Lily L. Tsai is the Director and Founder of the MIT Governance Lab (MIT GOV/LAB) and the Ford Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as well as the former Chair of the MIT Faculty. Her research focuses on accountability, governance, and political participation in developing contexts, particularly in Asia and Africa. In 2014, she founded MIT GOV/LAB, a group of social and behavioral scientists and design researchers who develop and test innovations in citizen engagement and government responsiveness. By focusing on how and why citizens become active in engaging their governments, Tsai aims to bridge researcher and practitioner communities by developing learning collaborations that can respond to governance challenges using empirical evidence in real time. Tsai has written two books, When People Want Punishment: Retributive Justice and the Puzzle of Authoritarian Popularity, and Accountability Without Democracy: Solidarity Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China, as well as articles in The American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies,Political Behavior, Comparative Politics, and World Development.
Emily Richmond Pollock is an Associate Professor of Music. Emily’s research focuses particularly on conservatism, the historicization of modernist musical value, operatic institutions, and the relationship between modern musical style and convention. Emily joined Music and Theater Arts in 2012 and regularly teaches 21M.011 Introduction to Western Music and courses on opera, the twentieth century, and the symphonic repertoire, as well as the Advanced Seminar for music majors. She is currently the music major advisor and has served in the past as a Burchard Faculty Fellow and as an advisor to first-years and music concentrators. She remains an active amateur oboist, performing with the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra and the Mercury Orchestra.
Adam Albright received his BA in linguistics from Cornell University in 1996 and his Ph.D. in linguistics from UCLA in 2002. He was a Faculty Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 2002-2004, and is currently a Professor at MIT. His research interests include phonology, morphology, and learnability, with an emphasis on using computational modeling and experimental techniques to investigate issues in phonological theory. Other interests include: Yiddish phonology and morphology; Lakhota phonology and morphology (and many other topics in Lakhota); and the proper treatment of historical change within Optimality Theory.
Please visit the Teaching + Learning Lab website to learn more about this seminar as well as our upcoming events and programs!
The first Irwin M. Arias, M.D. Symposium was held in 1991, and the theme of the event was – as it remains today – Bridging Basic Science and Liver Disease.
This unique one-day program brings together hundreds of leading biomedical scientists and physicians from across the globe and is designed to bridge the remarkable advances in basic biology and engineering with the understanding of liver diseases and their treatment. Research presented over the past 34 years has led to advances in the diagnosis and treatment of virtually all liver diseases in children and adults.
This year’s Annual Irwin Arias Symposium, with a theme of ‘building bridges’ within and beyond the liver research community, and spanning across academic, clinical, and translational research teams, will be held in person at the Broad Institute on Tuesday, December 2.
The full-day program will include 12 prominent speakers, a trainee poster competition over lunch, the opportunity for junior scientists to deliver 3 minute ‘Microtalks’ as part of the main program, and a wine and cheese reception. We are also offering a hybrid option so that distant attendees will be able to watch the program live, from anywhere in the world.
The 2025 symposium will be offered both in-person and virtually. In-person attendees will benefit from a poster session and networking opportunities with plenary speakers and other attendees. Breakfast, lunch, and a networking reception will also be provided to in-person attendees.
We welcome participation from researchers at every stage of their careers, and invite them to share perspectives from their academic, industrial, and clinical research settings. Trainees who are interested in presenting a micro-talk (in-person or virtually) or poster (in-person only) should submit an abstract with their registration.
**October 31, 2025 is the deadline for abstract submissions for the Poster competition (and consideration for a trainee Microtalk invitation).
We hope you will register today. Our partners at the American Liver Foundation have worked with sponsors to enable the program to be provided free of any charge to all academic attendees.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact reasearch [at] liverfoundation.org (research[at]liverfoundation[dot]org).
We look forward to making this the most engaging Arias Symposium yet!
We are excited to announce the 23rd Annual HBS Health Care Conference, a student-run conference at Harvard Business School with 600+ attendees each year. The healthcare ecosystem is at a pivotal moment. From scientific breakthroughs to digital innovation to global shifts in policy and funding, the way care is delivered, financed, and experienced is being redefined.
This year’s theme—“Catalyzing Healthcare’s Next Chapter”—calls for bold innovation and concrete action. Expect a full day of keynotes, panels, and networking with leaders driving the transformation of healthcare.
Saturday, November 15 at Harvard Business School (Klarman Hall)
Highlights include:
Meet the entrepreneurs building tomorrow’s healthcare solutions!
Featured speakers include:
To learn more about the conference's schedule of events or if you have any questions and would like to get in touch with the organizers, please visit the HBC Health Care Club's website.
The AHLI Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) solicits work across a variety of disciplines at the intersection of machine learning and health. CHIL 2026 invites submissions focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) techniques that address opportunities and challenges in health, which we view broadly as including clinical healthcare, public health, population health, and beyond.
Authors are invited to submit 8-10 page papers (with unlimited pages for references) to one of 3 tracks: Models and Methods, Applications and Practice, or Impact and Society. Each track is described in detail below.
Important Dates
Tracks & Topics
For more information on the scope of each track, submission details and guidelines, and contact information, please visit the Call for Papers page on our website or reach out to us at chil [at] ahli.cc (chil[at]ahli[dot]cc).
We look forward to reading your submissions!
Many rare disease patients today still face long "diagnostic odysseys" and low diagnosis yields. The accurate clinical interpretation of rare and novel variants remains a major barrier to diagnosis and treatment.
Currently, clinicians and researchers approach variant analysis very differently. Most clinical genetics insights originate from basic research, yet functional genomics researchers often lack the clinical context necessary to design models that accurately reflect real patient phenotypes. Conversely, clinicians either have limited awareness of genetics or struggle to find researchers with relevant expertise for their patients’ conditions.
BridgeRD aims to address this disconnect by:
BridgeRD2025 is excited to host a variety of opportunities to learn, collaborate, and brainstorm solutions to challenges in studying and treating rare disease:
Wednesday November 12 from 9am-3pm at both the Whitehead Institute and Online
We invite clinicians, clinical variant scientists, basic science researchers, and AI scientists to accelerate efforts to functionally characterize rare variants, improve clinical care, and drive the field forward.
Practicing clinicians, trainees, and academic and industry professionals are welcome to share their insights and explore potential cross-disciplinary initiatives for accelerating the diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases.
Please join us to see how cutting-edge science and research collide to tackle rare diseases head-on!
The “40th Annual Critical Issues in Tumor Microenvironment: Angiogenesis, Metastasis and Immunology” course, directed by Professor Rakesh K. Jain, will continue to offer the best in critical analysis of what is currently known about the tumor microenvironment, including lectures covering: angiogenesis, metastasis, immunology, metabolism, microbiome, chronobiology, cancer-neuroscience, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies, and integrating physical sciences, and AI in oncology. The faculty is internationally recognized. They will present their latest findings from their clinics and laboratories.
The goal of this course is to highlight key gaps in present knowledge of cancer and outline future directions for research at the bench and in the clinic.
The course will return to a four-day in person format in Boston, MA from November 10-14, 2025.
Learning formats will include didactic lectures, trainee-led Q&A and group discussions. The faculty will encourage an open discussion and will provide critical comments on challenges and future opportunities in research in cancer and in establishment of novel therapy approaches and biomarkers to guide treatment.
The aim of this course is to analyze and synthesize the most up-to-date findings. Our faculty will present valuable information in a systematic and comprehensive framework, along with a critical review of various measurement techniques. This course is dedicated to helping to improve clinical translation of this knowledge and competence, leading to improved cancer treatment.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary, we have added a special Trainee-focused 5th day to our course where the course participants will have the opportunity to present scientific posters, followed by a roundtable discussion session on career guidance for junior scientists, clinicians, and engineers.
For comprehensive information about this course, including faculty, schedule, location, and pricing, please visit the 40thCritical Issues in Tumor Microenvironment: Angiogenesis, Metastasis and Immunology website
We are happy to offer a discount of 50% off to Harvard and MIT affiliated scholars. In addition, Harvard will provide an additional tuition discount of 10% for groups of 5, and 20% discount for groups of 10 or more. Please contact tuccello [at] mgh.harvard.edu (tuccello[at]mgh[dot]harvard[dot]edu) for the discount codes.
We look forward to having you join us for the 40th Anniversary of this course!
A calendar of upcoming events is available here.
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Future topics will be similar to the previous Brainmap season, with some talks on Optogenetics, MR-PET, BOLD physiology, ultra-high field MRI, multimodal integration, contrast agents, and many more exciting topics! Unless otherwise noted, seminars (webinars) are held on Wednesdays at noon.
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The application for OGE Conference Grants is now open for students in search of funding for conferences they will either be presenting or serving as a panelist at from January 1, 2026 – March 31, 2026.
The start date of the conference or the first day the student is presenting/paneling must fall within this time frame.
Students can learn more about the process, evaluation criteria, and eligibility requirements here.
The deadline to apply is Saturday, November 15! Students can apply directly for these grants here.
Decisions for these grants will be made by December 1, 2025.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Kevin F O'Brien at kobrien1 [at] mit.edu (kobrien1[at]mit[dot]edu)
The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics (ELSCE) invites applications from graduate students who are writing dissertations or are engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics, especially ethical issues in architecture, business, education, government, law, medicine, public health, public policy, and religion.
The Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellowship program is a residential fellowship that supports younger scholars as they undertake projects which will impact the way ethics is considered in their various fields. The program is currently co-directed by Kelsey Berry and Quinn White.
ACTIVITIES
Graduate Fellows are expected to devote their time to an approved course of research and study and to participate in a weekly seminar, where they workshop papers and dissertation chapters and discuss research problems and strategies common to the study of practical and professional ethics. In addition, Graduate Fellows are expected to take part in the wider intellectual life of the Center.
This Fellowship is residential. Fellows are expected to be in residence in the Boston area at least four working days per week during the term and work from the Center’s office space at least three days per week, excluding travel for conferences and meetings.
ELIGIBILITY
Fellows must be (a) enrolled in a Harvard doctoral program; (b) enrolled in or a recent graduate of a Harvard professional degree program that does not require a doctoral dissertation for a career in that field (such as law or medicine); or (c) a full-time, academic year visitor to Harvard, who is hosted by a Harvard graduate program, but is still enrolled in a graduate program at another university and has no competing academic or professional commitments during the fellowship year. Please note that to qualify under section (c), the applicant must already have an arrangement in place with a Harvard graduate program; this is not intended to accommodate those who hope to make such an arrangement at a later date.
All course requirements and general examinations must be completed before the start of the fellowship year. Students taking a full or partial course load in either semester of the fellowship year are ineligible.
The Center seeks applicants who have excelled in their fields of specialization, have demonstrated an interest in questions of value that cut across disciplinary boundaries, and who are likely to make significant contributions to teaching and scholarship in practical and professional ethics. Some successful applicants will have a strong background in moral philosophy or political thought; others will be grounded in public policy or professional practice.
DEADLINE TO APPLY IS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 AT 11:59PM
Please complete our online application form and upload the following documents in PDF format by November 22, 2025, when prompted:
In addition, applicants should arrange for two letters of recommendation. Although the application is due on November 22, we offer a grace period for letters of recommendation. Recommenders must submit their letters via the online form by December 6, 2025.
The application system will automatically request letters from the recommenders you include on your application form using the email address you provide, but you should follow up with them as well. It is the applicant's responsibility to confirm that you have provided the correct email address for your recommender. It is also the applicant's responsibility to verify that both letter have been submitted before the deadline. If your recommender has difficulty submitting the letter through our application system, please have them email it to us at ethics_fellowships [at] fas.harvard.edu (ethics_fellowships[at]fas[dot]harvard[dot]edu).
Passing along information about a new STEM tutoring and mentorship program at the Ragon Institute! The STEM Scholars program serves high school students in Cambridge, in collaboration with the Cambridge Housing Authority. Mentors will be paired individually with a student for weekly tutoring and mentorship sessions through the fall and early winter (October - late January). If you’re interested in learning more, please sign up at this link!
Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) Mini Grants
Looking to spread some kindness at MIT? MindHandHeart's RAK Mini Grants are now open for applications! Whether it’s for your coworkers, lab group, or house, you can receive up to $250 for your small kindness project—any time of the year! Apply today, and let’s make our community a little brighter.
Do you know anyone looking to improve communication skills: speaking and listening? Visit a Toastmasters Club. The members of Toastmasters Clubs of MIT are happy to help students practice.
"Toastmasters is a fantastic way to improve your presentation skills! I personally learned a great deal from the MIT club and highly recommend it." -- Gwen Acton, MIT PhD
Clubs are currently meeting online and in person!
The Original Toastmasters @ MIT, Friday at 12 noon to 1 PM, via Zoom
Tuesday Evening Toastmasters, 6:30 to 8:00 PM on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month
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Grad students, interested in improving graduate life & community at MIT while earning a partial stipend? Apply to become a Graduate Community Fellow!
When would I start? Start dates are flexible and based on the Fellow and the hiring organization. If you’re looking for a job starting this semester, over IAP, or next semester, these openings may be a great fit for you!
What would I do? Graduate Community Fellows work on projects and assignments that enhance the graduate community at MIT in targeted, impactful ways. Each Fellow reports to a staff member in the OGE or a partner organization. See specifics below.
What are the requirements? Must meet minimal eligibility requirements and agree to the terms of appointment. Appointment periods for Fellow positions vary. All positions serve 10 hours per week, and receive compensation of $700 per month.
International students with full-time RA/TA appointments should note that there are eligibility restrictions.
Available positions are listed at the current Fellow positions page.
How do I apply? Once you’ve reviewed position details, download the application to apply. Applications for all positions are reviewed on a rolling basis. We hope to hear from you!
Questions? Contact Jessica Landry, jlandry [at] mit.edu (jlandry[at]mit[dot]edu).
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Takeda has been translating science into breakthrough medicines for 240 years. Every step of the way, our teams have worked together to tackle some of the most challenging problems in drug discovery and development. Today, we’re a driving force behind innovative therapies that make a lasting difference to millions of patients around the world.
In R&D, all of our history and potential comes together in an environment that welcomes diversity of thought and amplifies every voice. Working closely with colleagues, you’ll play a key role in bringing our rich pipeline of products forward to help patients. Come join a team that’s earned trust for more than two centuries, and find out how advancing transformative therapies at Takeda will shape your bright future.
Job Description:
The Precision & Translational Medicine (PTM) team, part of Oncology Therapeutic Area (OTAU), is on a mission to deliver transformational cures to patients through innovative translational research and development. By translating scientific innovation into the clinic, we aim to de-risk and expedite pre-clinical and clinical development, ensuring the right medicines reach the right patients at the right time. The PTM Strategic Innovations (PSI) team drives advancements in clinical-decision making by integrating cutting-edge technologies into clinical workflows. PSI’s initiatives are grounded in rigorous scientific evaluation and pilot validation, ensuring that innovations are tested in real-world settings and aligned with organizational goals.
Digital pathology is transforming oncology drug development by enabling high-resolution, AI-powered analysis of histology images. At Takeda, our Digital Pathology Accelerator (DPA) team is pioneering efforts to extract spatial and cellular insights from H&E and IHC slides using advanced machine learning models. These models help quantify immune cell populations, automate stain scoring, and correlate tissue features with patient response data. This internship will explore the development and validation of AI/ML models for digital pathology applications and their expanded use in clinical pipelines.
How You Will Contribute:
As an ML/AI Digital Pathology Imaging Intern, you will have the opportunity to…
Job Requirements:
Internship Eligibility:
Program Highlights:
DEADLINE TO APPLY IS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16
If you have further questions about this internship opportunity, please contact Melinda Chen at melinda.chen [at] takeda.com (melinda[dot]chen[at]takeda[dot]com).
Join us for our 7-week MIT VCG Winter 2026 engagement beginning in early January. Collaborate with a digital tech startup focused on chronic and autoimmune diseases to develop strategic insights for go-to-market strategy!
The Winter 2026 engagement will focus on helping our client with go-to-market model evaluation, customer segment alignment, phased rollout plan, and messaging guidance. Consultants chosen to participate in the engagement will work together to conduct research and present recommendations to the leadership team of our client, over a period of 7 weeks.
Winter 2026 Engagement: January 5th to February 26th, 2026
Application Due: Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM ET. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.
Interview Dates: Monday, November 17 to Wednesday, November 26, 2025
FAQs:
I have no consulting experience. Can I still participate?
Some experience in consulting case practice is preferred, but not necessary as long as you can demonstrate your interest and willingness to commit to VCG. You will be mentored throughout the 6-week project by a project leader with more experience.
I am not an MIT student. Can I apply?
Absolutely! The program is open to graduate students (PhDs, MDs, MD/PhDs, JDs) and postdocs in the Boston area.
What is the time commitment for this project?
We expect the engagement to be a priority during your time in VCG. A minimum of 15-20 hours per week is expected, but be prepared to contribute more to produce a high-quality project that you can be proud of. Each week you will be required to participate in three meetings: two internal team meetings and one external client meeting.
I will not be available for some period of the 7 weeks. Does that matter?
Preferably you will be available for the duration of the project, but if you will be unavailable for a couple of days, we will consider this on a case-by-case basis. Further, as we will have a few in-person meetings with the client during the engagement, volunteer consultants may need to be able to attend these meetings in the Boston/Cambridge area this summer.
What is the final deliverable?
In the final client meeting, you will present your final recommendation slide deck to senior leadership at the company.
If you have additional questions, please contact mitvolunteerconsulting [at] gmail.com.
A post-graduate research position is available in the laboratory of John Higgins, MD, located in the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Systems Biology and Department of Pathology and the Harvard Medical School Department of Systems Biology.
Qualified applicants will have extensive knowledge of and interest in human pathophysiology and mathematical modeling including dynamical systems, machine learning, statistical inference, computational methods, and good software engineering practices.
For example, strong candidates would be able to compare and contrast the following: hemostasis and thrombosis, ODE and PDE, lymphocyte and myelocyte, transformer and convolutional block.
The following skills and experience are required:
Applicants should have a Ph.D. and/or M.D. degree or be in their final year of their doctoral studies, and have at least a strong undergraduate background in math, computer science, or engineering.
Interested individuals should provide a CV and a cover letter describing past research experience, future research interests, career goals, and contact information for three references.
Interested applicants can contact John Higgins (higgins.john [at] mgh.harvard.edu).
The Zomorrodi Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School is seeking highly motivated PhD and Postdoctoral candidates excited about studying host-microbiome interactions in chronic human diseases.
About us:
Our lab integrates innovative computational and experimental approaches to investigate the intricate interactions between the human host and microbiome, with a focus on metabolism and nutrition. We develop Genome-Scale Models (GEMs) of metabolism, build machine learning (ML) tools, and leverage 3D gut organoid models to understand the mechanisms by which microbiomes contribute to disease progression and therapeutic response. We also explore the applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and
Large Language Models (LLMs) in medicine and biomedicine. The overarching goal of our research is to advance precision medicine by uncovering mechanisms driving chronic disease pathogenesis and harnessing AI to streamline clinical decision-making and improve patient care.
For more information about our lab, please our website.
Open positions:
PhD position in computational systems biology: A PhD candidate will focus on computational analysis of host-microbiome metabolic crosstalk in Celiac Disease (CeD) using genome-scale models. This role involves large-scale computational modeling of microbiomes and host intestinal epithelial and immune cells, multi-omics data integration, and downstream statistical and ML analysis for biomarker discovery.
Required qualifications: (i) Must be admitted to a relevant PhD program at Harvard or another Boston-area university (MIT, Boston University, etc.), (ii) Undergraduate or master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Computational Biology, Computer/Data Science, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Chemical/Biomedical/Biological/Electrical Engineering) OR
strong programming skills with a solid background in computational analysis.
Postdoctoral Position in experimental microbiome research: The postdoctoral researcher will investigate host-microbiome interactions in Celiac Disease (CeD) using patient-derived 3D gut organoid models and microbial isolates. This position involves: working with human cell lines, patient-derived tissues, and microbial cultures, investigating interactions between intestinal epithelial cells, immune cells, and gut microbes, and employing next-generation sequencing (NGS) and multi-omics approaches. The postdoc will collaborate closely with co-investigators on the project.
Required qualifications: (i) PhD in a relevant field (e.g., Cell Biology, Microbiology, Immunology, Biomedical Sciences, Bioengineering, Biochemistry) with a strong publication record, (ii) Experience with human cell culture, microbial culture, or next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques (preferred but not strictly required), (iii) Ability to quickly learn new experimental techniques, (iv) Strong verbal and written communication skills, (v) Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic research environment and a rapidly evolving field.
Application process: Interested candidates should contact Dr. Zomorrodi at azomorrodi [at] mgh.harvard.edu (azomorrodi[at]mgh[dot]harvard[dot]edu), providing a CV and a brief description of their interests. Use “PhD [or Postdoc, whichever is relevant] position in the Zomorrodi Lab” as the email subject. Applications are reviewed until the positions are filled. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.
Research environment:
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is a teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School and consistently ranks among the top hospitals in the U.S. Our lab is based in Boston, Massachusetts, in close proximity to world-class institutions, including MIT, The Broad Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Public Health. This dynamic research environment fosters strong collaborations, intellectual exchange, and access to cutting-edge technologies.
The Zomorrodi Lab is committed to diversity and equality and encourages applications from underrepresented minorities.
We are seeking highly motivated researchers for the following projects:
Robotic Cardiac Catheters
We are developing robotic catheters for heart valve repair and for treatment of arrythmias. Robotics offers the advantage of reducing the learning curve for complex beating-heart procedures and, ultimately, provides a platform for introducing automation. Important components of these projects can include: (1) user-based and autonomous control, (2) integration of therapeutic devices, and (3) testing in anatomical and animal models. Experience in robotics, control and prototyping is preferred.
Transcatheter Heart Valve Repair and Replacement Devices
Transcatheter procedures avoid the trauma and risks of open-heart surgery by delivering devices that are intended to replicate surgical repair and replacement. We are creating novel devices and tools for both valve repair and replacement. These projects require innovative design and creative problem-solving skills along with expertise in prototyping and experimental evaluation.
Cutting tools for Transcatheter Valve Modification
While current transcatheter valve interventions deploy devices that push, pull and approximate tissue to restore valve function, a complete surgical repair often involves cutting and removing valve tissue. As a first step toward providing this capability, this project involves developing catheter-delivered energy-based cutting tools for valve repair and replacement.
Qualified applicants should respond by email to Professor Pierre Dupont
(Pierre.Dupont [at] childrens.harvard.edu) with a description of their qualifications, academic background and availability.
More information on our lab can be found on our website.
Interested in working on Technology and Security Policy?
Technology and Security Policy Fellowship
The RAND Technology and Security Policy Fellowship develops new generations of policy analysts and implementors at the intersection of technology and security issues. Fellows perform in-depth, independent research relating to one or more of the research areas of the Technology and Security Policy Center. Fellows receive mentorship from RAND policy experts for their independent research. Additionally, fellows may work on RAND client-sponsored research, up to an average of one day per week.
Candidates are welcome from all experience levels, from undergraduate students to mid-career professionals. Fellowship durations will typically start at one year with the possibility of up to two additional years. Fellowships can be full- or part-time. Fellows must be based in the United States or United Kingdom, working remotely or at one of RAND's U.S. or U.K. offices.
Current students and recent graduates are welcome to apply. Selection decisions are made on a rolling basis, with applicants being notified at least once per quarter.
To learn more about the TASP fellowship program email: TASP_fellowship_inquiries [at] rand.org (TASP_fellowship_inquiries[at]rand[dot]org)
The Capasso group at Harvard SEAS has an opening for postdoctoral position related to biophotonics+metasurface/biosensing research. The postdoc will make contributions towards building a metalens optical system to image bacteria, including integration with small-pixel sensors, potentially an easy-to-use manual focus system, an integrated light source, and an image capture and transfer system.The candidate will join the group of Prof. Federico Capasso and collaborate with a team at the Harvard Medical School, led by Prof. Johan Paulsson, focused on bacterial detection identification (ID) and antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST), leveraging on this optical system, including interfacing with a microfluidic system.
In addition to the basic instrument, the postdoc will develop more advanced metalens imaging modalities for bacteria, with the purpose of making the AST not only faster and more robust, but also potentially achieving some basic level of species ID. This will include the development of a compact form of quantitative phase microscopy by encoding polarization-dependent optical functions onto a single metasurface to perform full-Stokes image polarimetry.
Proficiency in laboratory optics and photonics with particular emphasis on imaging systems such as microscopy is preferred. Previous experience in nanophotonics and clean room fabrication would be beneficial but is not strictly required. History of work in polarization and optical polarimetry desirable. Interviews are currently on-going for this position: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14008
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is excited to announce the launch of a new post-doctoral training program called the HEAL Initiative Partnerships to Advance INterdisciplinary (PAIN) Training Program in Clinical Pain Research. The HEAL PAIN Cohort Program, via the T90/R90 mechanism, provides interdisciplinary training to postdoctoral scholars pursuing careers in pain and addiction research. By integrating a broad range of scientific disciplines and fostering a collaborative research environment, the program equips trainees with the skills needed to advance pain science, develop innovative treatments, and translate research findings into clinical practice. This program will emphasize mentorship, career development, and hands-on research experience. The program will help ensure postdoctoral trainees are well-prepared to contribute to the HEAL Initiative's mission of improving pain management.
The Positively Uniting Researchers of Pain to Opine, Synthesize, and Engage (PURPOSE) network will help facilitate a national cohort experience among the postdoctoral trainees at the funded T90/R90 centers, as well as organize an annual meeting that all trainees will be required to attend. Learn more and join the PURPOSE network at https://painresearchers.com/.
For more information and to apply, please reach out to the center(s) of interest directly below. If you are interested in multiple centers, you may email PainCohortPrograms [at] painresearchers.com (PainCohortPrograms[at]painresearchers[dot]com) and your information will be forwarded to all centers.
The University of Utah Program to Provide Pain Research Knowledge (UP3RK) mission is to impart the science knowledge, skills, and core competencies needed by post-graduate, interdisciplinary Scholars to address the nation’s scientific needs in clinical pain research. UP3RK trains Scholars through mentorship, interdisciplinary research skill development and concentrated training in our four focus areas (nonpharmacologic pain treatments, effective interventions for pain and substance use disorders; implementation science, research within vulnerable, diverse, and underserved populations). We train UP3RK Scholars within an innovative, multi-level mentor model to prepare clinical pain investigators for successful, independent, research careers.
Contact PI: Dr. Julie Fritz, julie.fritz [at] hsc.utah.edu (julie[dot]fritz[at]hsc[dot]utah[dot]edu)
The MGB IMPACT (Interdisciplinary Mentorship Program Advising Clinical Trainees) Program in Clinical Pain Research is based in Boston. The program offers training to postdoctoral fellows, with the long-term goal of expanding the number, diversity, and collaborative network of clinical pain researchers, advancing our understanding of pain and our ability to effectively manage pain without opioid medications. MGB IMPACT focuses on team science, providing interdisciplinary mentorship and training in clinical pain research by bringing together a diverse group of mentors from an array of backgrounds, including Psychology, Neurology, Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Women's Health, Epidemiology and others. MGB IMPACT operates collaboratively with other T90/R90 programs around the country to promote innovative solutions for pain management and improve patient care by providing high-quality training to future leaders in clinical pain research.
Contact PI: Dr. Robert Edwards, rredwards [at] partners.org (rredwards[at]partners[dot]org)
The Stanford PAIN cohort is dedicated to interdisciplinary research training in maternal and childhood pain and bioinformatics. We will train participants from across the national cohort in pediatric and maternal health and pain, equipping a new generation of clinical pain researchers to apply a lifespan lens to identify primary and secondary prevention strategies to address the pain epidemic. Core faculty research leaders will help match trainees to mentors within the Stanford PAIN cohort content areas of: (1) bioinformatics, (2) pain across the lifespan, specifically child and maternal pain, (3) nonpharmacological (behavioral) interventions for pain, (4) prevention of the transition from acute to chronic pain and (5) advancing health equity in the field of pain.
Contact PI: Dr. Laura Simons, lesimons [at] stanford.edu (lesimons[at]stanford[dot]edu)
The University of Michigan Pain T90/R90 program is looking for postdoctoral scholars interested in a career in pain science. We have a broad range of mentors that can help guide scholars in nearly any type of clinical or translational pain science. A focus of this program will be the career development of the scholars, who generally will be expected to write a NIH career development award (K award) during this postdoc.
Contact PI: Dr. Daniel Clauw, dclauw [at] med.umich.edu (dclauw[at]med[dot]umich[dot]edu)
The University of Florida Partnerships Across Interdisciplinary Networks: Training through Engineering, Epidemiology & Addiction Medicine or UF PAIN TEAM is located in Gainesville, North Central Florida. The program offers postdoctoral training to fellows interested in pursuing clinical pain research within collaborative interdisciplinary teams across the UF Pain Research & Intervention Center of Excellence (PRICE). During the first year of the program, fellows will identify and partner with other fellow(s) in the program and along with mentors will develop a team science project extending their individual research projects. Our long-term goal is to increase the number of pain researchers able to perform complex team science research, advancing our understanding of pain and therapeutic options. Our mentors span interdisciplinary backgrounds including Neuroscience, Engineering, Psychology, Epidemiology, Addiction Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy, Anesthesiology, and others. The UF PAIN TEAM will also work collaboratively with other T90/R90 programs around the country to increase our future clinical pain workforce and their ability to work within large interdisciplinary teams.
Contact PI: Dr. Yenisel Cruz-Almeida, cryeni [at] ufl.edu (cryeni[at]ufl[dot]edu)
At Washington University in St. Louis we have developed a new postdoctoral training program: the Promoting Excellence through Pain and Addiction Research Enhancement (PREPARE) T90/R90 Training Program. A defining feature of the PREPARE Program will be an emphasis on social determinants of health (SDOH) as they relate to chronic pain and substance use disorders clinical research. SDOH define the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, and the inequities in power, money, and resources that are often responsible for disparities in pain and substance use outcomes across the U.S. Our overall goal is to develop outstanding independent investigators capable of sustaining productive clinical research careers addressing the biopsychosocial (emphasis on social) mechanisms underlying chronic pain and substance use disorder development, and/or designing clinical interventions to relieve pain and ameliorate substance use.
Contact PI: Dr. Burel Goodin, burel [at] wustl.edu (burel[at]wustl[dot]edu)
The National Institutes of Health’s Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education offers an extensive range of clinical research training opportunities to prepare the next generation of clinician-scientists. Brief descriptions of the programs are provided below. As world’s largest biomedical research agency, the NIH encourages future clinician-scientists and medical researchers to consider adding an NIH experience to their portfolio.
Graduate Medical Education
NIH currently sponsor 17 medical specialty or subspecialty programs which have been accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). We also jointly sponsor clinical training programs with extramural training partners, to include Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, and the National Capital Consortium. In addition, we sponsor numerous "one of kind" translational medicine fellowship training programs. https://cc.nih.gov/training/gme/programs1.html
Clinical Elective Programs
Short term—4 to 12 week—clinically oriented elective rotations for senior medical and dental students; unique mentored specialty/subspecialty clinical research rotations are also available for combined program students (i.e., MD/PhD, DO/PhD). https://cc.nih.gov/training/students/clinical_electives.html
Postdoctoral Research Training Awards
Provides the opportunity for recent doctoral degree recipients to enhance their research skills in the resource-rich National Institutes of Health (NIH) environment, which consists of more than 1200 laboratories/research projects. https://www.training.nih.gov/programs/postdoc_irp
Graduate Partnerships Program
This program is designed to bring PhD graduate students to the NIH Intramural Research Program for dissertation research. https://www.training.nih.gov/programs/gpp
For information on EU – U.S. cooperation in doctoral and postdoctoral education opportunities for U.S. researchers and organizations. Visit IIE online at www.iie.org. Please contact the programs directly for additional information or with any questions you may have.
A quote from a recent Fulbright U.S. student, "My advice to Fulbrighters of the future is that which was given to me. Go at it with an open mind; your experience will not be anything like you predicted and will mark you indelibly, but it will be great."
Join us to hear from David Kolesky, PhD, who co-founded two biotech companies following his PhD at Harvard before becoming a Principal at Flagship Pioneering and later at MPM BioImpact. He’ll share insights from his journey across biotech entrepreneurship and venture capital!
This discussion will be moderated by Christiana Bardon MD, Co-Managing Partner of MPM | BioImpact Capital.
Tuesday, November 11 from 4-5pm on Zoom
If you have questions about this event, please contact harvardbiotechclub [at] gmail.com (harvardbiotechclub[at]gmail[dot]com).
Curious about where a science degree can take you beyond the bench? Join STEMCELL Technologies for an engaging career panel discussion featuring PhD scientists who have built exciting careers supporting research and innovation around the world.
STEMCELL Technologies provides high-quality cell culture media, cell separation technologies, instruments, accessory products, and education resources to scientists around the world working on stem cell, immunology, cancer, regenerative medicine, and cellular therapy research. We are dedicated to improving lives through advanced knowledge and scientific discovery, through our commitment to fostering diversity and inclusion in STEM, investments in sustainability, community, and social responsibility. Rooted in scientific expertise and rigor, we are a company of Scientists Helping Scientists.
Wednesday, November 12 at 5:30pm in TMEC 106 (260 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02135)
Panelists:
Our panelists will share their personal career journeys, insights into transitioning from academia to industry, and what it’s like to work at a company driven by the motto “Scientists Helping Scientists.”
If you have questions about this event, please contact harvardbiotechclub [at] gmail.com (harvardbiotechclub[at]gmail[dot]com).
The Graduate Student Career Exploration Grant awards a small grant ($1,000 or $1,500) to help graduate students cover the cost of completing a one-month underfunded domestic internship over IAP in a career field they would like to explore further. Underfunded opportunities are defined as opportunities paying less than $2,000 over the one-month IAP.
Example industry areas can include but are not limited to: non-profit, local government, startups, communication, creative fields, education or sustainability. Since the objective of the grant is to promote career exploration, priority will be given to applications where the proposed opportunity extends beyond the scope of their current academic research trajectory and enables the applicant to make meaningful connections in industry.
Reasons to apply
Funding
$1,000 or $1,500 based on student need
Funds can be used to offset expenses students incurred by completing the experience. Examples of expenses includes, travel, transportation, housing , food or other living expenses. This grant funding might be subject to taxes and MIT recommends that students consult with a tax preparation advisor to determine how to best report this grant on your taxes.
Grants are to be used to enable an internship during the current academic year’s IAP and cannot be used to reimburse expenses incurred during a previous time period.
Funding cannot be used for trainings, classes, or experiences outside of the US. MBA students are not eligible for this grant.
What do you need to apply?
Review application details and this training module offering resources to help you secure an internship
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until funds have been allocated or until November 15, whichever comes first. If you would like to apply for the grant after November 15, contact Tavi Sookhoo (tsookhoo [at] mit.edu (tsookhoo[at]mit[dot]edu)).
If you are in the process of securing an internship but have not received an offer letter yet, we encourage you to submit an application. In your short answer responses, please indicate that you are in the process of attaining an offer letter and when you expect to receive it.
Attention International Students: You are strongly encouraged to review this Guidance for International Students to determine your eligibility, prior to beginning the application process.
If you have further questions, please visit the MIT CAPD website or contact Tavi Sookhoo (tsookhoo [at] mit.edu (tsookhoo[at]mit[dot]edu)). You can also visit the student profiles of previous recipients to see example internships.
Information on upcoming sessions of the Career 101 Series will be posted here when available.
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CAPD has launched the Faculty Job Search Guide! This completes our online PhD career support program (Kerberos login required), which brings together industry and academic job search resources and examples for easy access. The whole set of resources, the Faculty Job Search Guide, the PhD Career Document Library, and our PhD Resumes for Industry Jobs, is there whenever our students are ready. You can also find links on the CAPD PhD page.
Starting in January, we will begin recruiting for those interested in our full-time Associate role who graduate between December 2024 – Summer 2025. Advanced Professional Degree (APD) candidates are postdocs or working toward the following degrees: PhD, MD (including medical interns, residents and fellows), JD, PharmD, Nursing, and non-MBA Masters. Non-MBA Master candidates must have at least four years in between the completion of their undergraduate degree and graduate degree to be qualified as having an APD.
Over 80% of our consultants have advanced degrees in fields outside of business, and as our firm continues to grow and evolve, we are looking for more people like you – experts in their fields – to join our community. We hope you will consider starting your journey with us, so you can be at your best at McKinsey!
Make sure to bookmark our website ahead of the new year.
As always, feel free to reach out to our APD_Recruiting_Team [at] McKinsey.com (APD recruiting team) with questions!
What’s on the horizon…
We will be hosting virtual sessions each month. These sessions will help you learn about the world of consulting, how your degree will be valuable, what life is like at McKinsey, and how we help our clients solve the most complex problems.
We can’t forget to mention Insight & Diversity Connect! Planning is underway for these two flagship programs. Find information on our website.
Connecting on campus Our recruiting team or consultants may be visiting a campus near you. Whether virtually or in-person, we are excited to learn more about YOU and what makes you interested in McKinsey!
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This will give you access to all things APD recruiting in the coming months.
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The MIT Alumni Advisors Hub is an online platform that students can use to ask for advice when they need it—from MIT alumni around the world. Students can get advice on their job and internship search, conduct a mock interview or informational interview, explore career paths and future entrepreneurial pursuits, and navigating life at MIT.
Sign up to gain access to a community of alumni who are eager to share their advice at https://alumniadvisors.mit.edu/.
Find an advisor today!
MIT has a diverse range of career fairs, only a few of which are run by Career Advising & Professional Development. Others are managed by student organizations or academic departments. MIT students are also welcome at some fairs hosted by companies, professional organizations, and other universities.
To get the most of your career fair experience, see our Tips for Career Fair Success. You can also view the CAPD events calendar for career fair workshops.
Find out more about career fairs at MIT.
For those who are looking for other resources, recordings of career related workshops and sessions for grad students available here: http://capd.mit.edu
The CAPD Event calendar can be found here.
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