Show off your HST spirit!
Use one of these virtual community Zoom backgrounds.
MIT is enormously grateful for the dedication, high standards, and caring of everyone in our community. Have you observed someone taking extra measures to help maintain operations, assist students and staff, or ensure the safety of all of us at MIT?
Visit here for a chance to thank someone in the community – staff members, students, or faculty – who has gone the extra mile.
The 2021 KI Image Awards include winners from the faculty at HST and IMES, and HST graduates.
Have you ever wondered how those compelling images that illustrate research are created? The Koch Institute (KI) Image Awards can show how. The awards, which "seek to recognize the extraordinary visuals that are produced through life sciences and biomedical research at MIT," are described by KI as images which serve as "windows into otherwise invisible biological worlds".
The 2021 KI Image Awards winners include some creators with connections to HST and IMES (IMES is HST's home at MIT). This includes HST faculty member Sangeeta Bhatia, John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) and Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, MIT (IMES); Natalie Artzi, principle research scientist at IMES; Jesse Kirkpatrick, a May 2020 PhD graduate of the HST Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (MEMP) program and Arnav Chhabra an HST MEMP PhD graduate from September, 2019.
Congratulations!
Read more here.
Lee Gehrke, Hermann L. F. von Helmholtz Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, and a member of the core faculty at the Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), has been named to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.
Find more information here.
Congratulations, Lee!
Collin Stultz, Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department, and a core faculty member for the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), has been named to the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program.
Find more information here.
Congratulations, Collin!
Each week we share an item about DEI in STEM, academia, research, or medicine.
Learn about The Diversity-Innovation Paradox in Science by reading this recent PNAS article by Hofstra et al.
An archive of previous TWiHST DEI: Ways to Engage posts can be found here.
Find a full list here: https://hst.mit.edu/covid-19-resources
The HST.590 topic for this Spring is “MiniMBA”.
Non-registered students who are interested in participating in a session should contact Max Cotler, Teaching Assistant (mjcotler [at] mit.edu (mjcotler[at]mit[dot]edu)) for Zoom access information.
Time and Location
Meets virtually on Zoom on selected Thursdays 4:30–6:30pm.
Schedule of Lectures and Course Events
March 11
March 18
March 25
April 1
April 8
April 15
April 22
April 29
The Graduate Program in Engineering Leadership Program is pleased to announce our Graduate Certificate in Technical Leadership Workshop Series for Spring 2021. These workshops will run virtually and here is a link to descriptions for each.
We invite you to register and attend our series, which count toward satisfying requirements toward our certificate. The workshops will be held from 5:30-7:30pm.
*If you are interested in registering for one or all of our workshops, please email Lisa Stagnone (lstag [at] mit.edu (lstag[at]mit[dot]edu))
Find more information and apply here.
We can probably all remember a single course, a single lecture, or even a single book that fundamentally changed our thinking and repeatedly guides our decisions. That’s the kind of course we have designed: a short, intense upgrade for people planning on a career in or related to biotechnology, whether in companies, as investors, as lawyers, academic founders, or government.
Session 1: Introduction to the Biotech Social Contract
Session 2: Game Theory in Biotech
Session 3: What makes a company great? Reverse-engineering success and failure in biotech
Session 4 (optional): Business of Biotech Pitch-Off Tournament
Though this course and its content are geared toward participants with a background in science and/or biotechnology, anyone who wants to learn how biomedical innovation is funded and can be affordable to patients is eligible to apply.
The HSTalks Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection is an online multimedia resource containing nearly 3,000 specially commissioned lectures by world leading scientists. MIT has full access to this resource.
Programme directors, faculty, teaching staff, researchers, post- docs, and students use the collection in many ways including in blended, distance and flipped classroom education.
Browse the collection here.
The MIND Project is a new Harvard Brain Science Initiative (HBI) working group for postdoctoral level trainees interested in neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders, coming from all parts of Harvard University and its affiliated institutes/hospitals. This includes post-docs, research fellows, clinical fellows, and instructors.
The MIND Project is the first of its kind tailored towards nurturing collaborations between individuals at the postdoctoral level to answer big questions in neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. Such activity would provide them with the skills to form their own collaborations in the future and opens a wide door for them to meet and know each other in order to produce rich, multifaceted, interdisciplinary research, and other outcomes such as products, drug development, digital tools, medical technology, assessment/diagnostic tools, policies, and others. Additionally, postdocs/fellows would benefit from the output of their work, e.g. through joint publications, product launch, policy making, etc. As mentioned, this group gives postdocs/fellows a chance to produce not only papers, but other elements that are not common in academia, but very much needed. We hope that the majority of these outcomes can be made to improve the overall quality of life of those with neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders. We seek to have post-docs/fellows mentored by leaders in the field, obtain peer support, widen their career networks, maximize their productivity, enrich their community, and benefit in myriad other ways from the intellectually stimulating environment around them.
Our working group will discuss concrete challenges in the field, share resources and brainstorm ways to work together on problems of common interest, including ways to make better use of large publicly available data repositories on disorders such as autism, schizophrenia, OCD, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and others. All trainees at the post-doctoral level at Harvard who share passion towards neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders in any field are encouraged to participate.
Individuals from all spectrums of knowledge in medicine, psychology, engineering, robotics, machine and deep learning, physics, chemistry, biology, math, theoretical science, pharmacologists, software engineers, etc. are all encouraged to participate as long as they are passionate about the topic and their work.
For those who are interested in learning more, please fill out the introductory survey here: https://forms.gle/HtVAkhaJEFrGowEL8
Find more information at https://brain.harvard.edu/mind.
Email us at info [at] brain.harvard.edu (info[at]brain[dot]harvard[dot]edu) with any questions or suggestions.
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 virtual wellness programs that fit your needs.
Community Wellness is proud to present a new website to register for classes.
On the new website, you will be required to create a new account.
Check out this help guide for detailed instructions on how to navigate the new site and register for classes.
Community Wellness is offering group health coaching workshops and classes at the start of the semester and beyond to help students start well and stay well.
Click here to register for Group Health Coaching Workshops.
Hack Your Sleep
Strategies to help you reboot your sleep schedule, get the best quality sleep you can, and make getting up in the morning easier. Learn about MIT resources to decrease stress and improve sleep health.
Motivation and Productivity: COVID-19 Edition
Manage time, energy, and productivity, connect with deeper motivations to avoid burnout and maintain focus, and make a blueprint for your own productivity plan.
Don’t see what you are looking for? Email wellness [at] med.mit.edu (wellness[at]med[dot]mit[dot]edu) with any questions about wellness programs at MIT.
Don't forget: MIT Medical's COVID-19 hotline can be reached at 617-253-4865, and the 24-hour general helpline is 617-253-1311.
The Writing and Communication Center offers free one-on-one professional advice from communication experts 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. You can learn more about the WCC consultations at http://cmsw.mit.edu/writing-and-communication-center and register with the online scheduler to make appointments through https://mit.mywconline.com. Please note that the WCC hours are offered Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm, and fill up fast.
Some faculty already require their students to consult with the WCC’s communication experts on their papers, technical reports, and presentations — doing so is a good way not only to improve the quality of their students’ work but also to help students grow as academic writers and communicators.
The WCC has decades of experience preparing thousands of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral scholars and faculty, for positions in research, academia, and industry. We provide expertise in scientific and engineering writing as well as humanities and social science writing across various genres, including journal articles, scientific posters, dissertations, oral presentations, and slide design.
Here are some important resources and updates from the MIT Libraries.
All MIT Libraries (including 24-hour spaces and book drops) are closed until further notice. Library staff members will remain available remotely during the closure. See our service updates for the latest information and Ask Us if you have any questions.
Information about upcoming workshops for graduate students and postdocs can be found here.
If you have any questions about programs and resources available to graduate students through the TLL, contact Ben Hansberry, Asst. 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.
HGWISE and HGWISEGUYS are hosting a discussion about bias in science.
To keep up with current events, we will be talking about two very recent articles regarding the impact of COVID-19 on women in academia, which are linked below. A Science article was also written recently (linked below), which summarizes these and other recent findings. We hope you will join us in the discussion!
Articles:
The potential of AI to bring equity in healthcare has spurred significant research efforts across academia, industry and government. Racial, gender and socio-economic disparities have traditionally afflicted healthcare systems in ways that are difficult to detect and quantify. New AI technologies, however, provide a platform for change. By bringing together thought leaders in these fields, we will assess the current state-of-the-art work in this space, identify key areas of impact, and present machine learning techniques that support fairness, personalization and inclusiveness. We will also discuss the regulatory and policy implications of such innovations.
Find more information and register here.
Sponsors: Jameel Clinic, IDSS, MIT EECS, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, IMES
Using Machine Learning to improve health equity and reduce cost of care
Speaker: Charles Senteio, PhD, MBA, LCSW, Visiting Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan, MIT MLK Program, 2020-2021, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
Abstract:
An existing unsupervised Machine Learning (ML) capability is being used to assign risk of Emergency Department (ED) visit and subsequent hospitalization for patients who experience gaps in preventive health services (e.g., well-child visits; cancer screening, kidney screening, etc.). The Health Risk Assessment which feeds the ML tool includes both social determinants of health (SDOH) data (e.g., financial barriers, low social support, transportation issues) and clinical data (e.g., age, race, co-morbidity) to assign risk.
To approach the promise of using ML to address health equity, an opportunity exists to 1) use automated tools to collect SDOH data, and 2) design and assess patient-centric, culturally competent interventions which result in both human and financial value.
Dr. Senteio will provide an overview of these innovative ML applications and potential future directions in the context of community health informatics research.
AI and the Soul of Medicine
Is the healing touch necessarily human touch?
Speakers:
Eric Topol, MD - Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute
Rosalind W. Picard, ScD, FIEEE - Faculty, MIT Media Lab
John C. Tilburt, MD - Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Ethics, Mayo Clinic
Harvard Medical School and Mayo Clinic invite you to a joint Veritas Forum on AI and the soul of medicine. Advancements in AI have demonstrated utility in many spheres of our lives, but its precise role in the future of healthcare is still unclear.
Current trends in AI and medicine are met with equal parts skepticism and optimism, and this conversation seeks to explore the present and future role of AI in facilitating patient-centered care. How will AI influence the soul of medicine? Does human touch play a unique role in emotional and physical connection? How will AI shape diagnosis and treatment? Can AI contribute to human flourishing? How will AI influence bias in modern healthcare?
Dr. Topol (Scripps Research), Dr. Picard (MIT Media Lab), and Dr. Tilburt (Mayo Clinic) will be in conversation about the role of AI in the future of healthcare on Monday, March 8. The conversation will be moderated by Caroline Chen (ProPublica).
Register for the event here: http://bit.ly/MayoHMSVeritas
Transcriptional dependencies in cancer
Speaker: Chris Vakoc, MD, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Zoom Link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/98360568230
A calendar of upcoming events is available here.
The Boston Children’s Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) invites you to our Landmark Ideas Lecture.
Real-world COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and the Mass Vaccination Experience in Israel
Speaker: Ben Reis, PhD, Director, Predictive Medicine Group, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP), Faculty at at Harvard Medical School
Dr. Ben Reis will lead a discussion on the recent New England Journal of Medicine paper he co-authored, providing the first real-world study of effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. It was the largest study yet to quantify the impact of the vaccine outside the confines of a clinical trial. The study used innovative epidemiological methods to analyze vaccine effectiveness for preventing symptomatic diseases, severe illness and death. Dr. Reis will discuss his study and the lessons learned from the nation-wide mass vaccination experience in Israel. The study has been featured in The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Fortune.
Dr. Ben Reis is Director of the Predictive Medicine Group at Harvard Medical School and the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program. His research focuses on understanding the essential patterns of human disease, and on developing novel approaches for predicting disease. He has created systems that allow doctors to predict dangerous clinical conditions years in advance, as well as predictive pharmacology systems that allow public health officials to identify life-threatening adverse drug effects years in advance. Dr. Reis has designed predictive health monitoring systems for regional and national settings, and has advised governments worldwide on establishing biodefense and biosurveillance infrastructures. He has been recognized by the White House for his work on harnessing social networks to promote health, and by the US State Department, USAID and NASA for his work in global health innovation.
About CHIP:
The Boston Children's Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP), founded in 1994, is a multidisciplinary applied research and education program. For more information visit www.chip.org.
About Landmark Ideas Series:
The Landmark Ideas Series is an event series led by CHIP that features thought leaders across health care, informatics, IT, astrophysics, science, and more.
For more information on upcoming events visit www.chip.org/events.
Social Media: Follow us on Twitter at @Bos_CHIP.
My Sister’s Keeper & Hermanas Unidas initiatives
Speaker: Sophia Hasenfus, Program Assistant, MIT WGS
Every member of the MIT community is welcome.
For information on future seminars, dates, guest speakers, and topics, our spring semester calendar can be found here, so set aside the dates!
To stay up to date on current BDC events, follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or send us questions to bdcgroup [at] mit.edu (bdcgroup[at]mit[dot]edu).
The MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics and the MIT Microbiome Club are proud to invite you to participate in our annual MIT Microbiome Symposium to be held virtually on Thursday, April 15, 2021 from 10-5 pm.
The symposium will feature talks from established and young investigators, poster sessions, and a networking social to close the symposium. For more details, please check out our website.
This year we are proud to host Dr. Eric Martens (University of Michigan) and Dr. Christina Warinner (Harvard University) as our two keynote speakers.
To participate in the event:
Please contact cmit.microbiome [at] gmail.com (cmit[dot]microbiome[at]gmail[dot]com) with any questions or inquiries. Your participation in this symposium is free. Our goal is to showcase the diverse opportunities available in the field of microbiome science, and we hope that you can join us!
We look forward to seeing you in April!
The upcoming *VIRTUAL* North American IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Student Conference will be in June 2021! The theme of the conference is "Diversity of Perspective & People" and it is being organized by a group of graduate students from MIT, Harvard, and Penn State (including a number of HST colleagues!). The goal is to emphasize equally themes of interdisciplinary conversation, broader social impacts, diversity, equity & inclusion, mental health and wellness, and scientific communication along with cutting edge research and cool science. Check out the website if you're interested, and we're now open to abstract submissions!
The Medical Development Group Boston (MDG Boston) is a community of individuals professionally committed to the Medical Device and other Medical Technology Industry segments united by the belief that innovation and advances in technology lead to substantial improvements in health care.
MDG's Mission is to contribute to the continuing development of medical devices and other medical technologies by enhancing the professional development of its members, fostering and supporting entrepreneurial thinking, serving as a forum for exploration of new business opportunities, and promoting best practices in enterprise management.
MDG pursues this mission through the organization of educational programs and forums: the facilitation of cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration; the creation of venues for networking and information sharing for current and aspiring professionals, clinicians, and entrepreneurs; and the development of alliances with complementary organizations.
We would love for you to attend and spread the word in your community!
For more information on our upcoming events, visit our website.
Boston has long been known as a medical mecca of scientific discovery. Boston’s healthcare professionals and administrators are adopting practices from other high-risk and service industries. The ‘big data’ movement is thriving, fundamentally changing our healthcare delivery systems. Digital health investments are higher than ever before. Medical hackathons and un-conferences are now an every-weekend occurrence. And both redesign and innovation promise to change medicine as we know it. It’s all happening right here, right now. But the problem is that many of us don’t know it. Despite Boston’s innovative energy and a solid medical infrastructure, many medical providers and health care entrepreneurs remain in the dark about the opportunities, events and work happening in and around the city of Boston – and across the country. That’s where we come in.
At Medtech Boston, we highlight exciting medical innovation work in and around the city of Boston. We aim to start a discussion about the most exciting and controversial new healthcare offerings, igniting a new reputation for Boston as a city with first-class medical research and patient care, but also as a city full of passionate people who use new technology to think big thoughts about medicine’s most pressing problems.
More organizational information and event postings from Medtech Boston is available here.
The goal of the Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative (GHMHI) is to provide MIT students the training to analyze critically the determinants of health and roles of medicine in society from historical and cross-cultural perspectives.
Global Health programs in medical schools, schools of public health, and universities and colleges across the U.S. emphasize how biomedical training, research, and practice, as well as interdisciplinary collaborations beyond the health sciences, are necessary to improve the determinants of health—whether social, political, economic, or biological.
Medical Humanities is a subfield of medicine that draws on the humanities, arts, and social sciences to analyze medical education and clinical practice.
Find more information and a calendar of upcoming events at http://ghmhi.mit.edu/.
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.
Brainmap website: https://www.martinos.org/education/brainmap/
To sign up for the mailing list, please go to: https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/brainmap
Northpond Ventures is a leading global science-driven venture capital firm. With beyond $1 billion in committed capital, we have invested over $650 million in nearly 40 companies. Our team drives innovation in life sciences, foster industry-disrupting technologies, and envision bold new advances in medicine to build a better tomorrow.
Our Cambridge office is seeking talented, highly driven individuals to join the Northpond summer Fellows Program. This full-time, eight-week fellowship offers personal and professional development in the unique intersection of the venture capital and life sciences industries. Fellows will have the opportunity to work in an ecosystem that includes companies as diverse as Sherlock Biosciences (CRISPR diagnostics), Vigil Neuroscience (neurodegeneration therapeutics), DNAnexus (cloud bioinformatics), and more.
Fellows will work closely with Northpond investors on a variety of short- and long-term projects.
Logistics:
To apply, please, submit a cover letter and résumé no later than March 31, 2021, to fellows [at] npv.vc (fellows[at]npv[dot]vc).
Do you have some interesting research you’d love to highlight? Then consider participating in MIT’s inaugural 3-Minute Thesis and Research Slam Competition. This event is part of a collaboration with MIT Comm Labs, MIT Graduate Student Council, and Career Advising and Professional Development Office of MIT.
Here's a short blurb describing the event:
Explain your research through a 3 Minute video and win hundreds of dollars in cash prizes! The event is open to both graduate students and postdocs. We have resources to help you prepare content and make the videos. Check out researchslam.mit.edu for more details.
Deadline to turn in the video submissions: March 15, 2021
What is iREFS?
MIT iREFS is a student group that offers confidential peer-to-peer support to fellow graduate students.
What do we do?
Our mission is to ensure graduate student wellness, especially in times of uncertainty, stress, and conflict. We provide confidential, peer-to-peer conflict support and coaching. We also provide informed referrals to MIT resources and offices. Further, we organize conflict management workshops for the MIT graduate student community on active listening and difficult conversations.
Hope you are staying safe and healthy! We are happy to share that MIT iREFS will be holding weekly office hours (confidential conflict management sessions).
During these office hours, an iREFS will be available on a zoom call. Please feel free to join the call if you are looking to talk to a fellow grad student regarding an issue that is a cause of concern/stress for you. We are here to provide a listening ear, inform you about key student resources that you could benefit from, and help brainstorm ways to come out of such challenging situations.
All sessions are confidential and no calls are recorded. As an alternative, you can always email us at irefs-contact [at] mit.edu (irefs-contact[at]mit[dot]edu) or sign up with our Google Form to schedule a meeting at a time that is convenient for you.
Subscribe to our Mailing List:
You can subscribe to our mailing list to receive updates about our events!
Want to follow iREFS on social media?
– Join our Facebook group today!
– Follow us on Instagram!
Help bring a little levity to MIT.
We have money to fund humorous projects!
Apply for a grant from the de Florez Fund for Humor.
All members of the MIT community—students, instructors, and staff—may apply as long as the activities reach a student audience.
Applications for amounts above $750 are reviewed once per semester, in November and February. Lower amounts are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Apply by Monday, March 8, 2021
For more information and the online application, visit our website: shass.mit.edu/funny
The Jamal Khashoggi Fellowship at CIS is offered in partnership with Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) and is open to all MIT students. Nine Khashoggi Fellows will be selected to evaluate industrial countries and their impact on democracy within the Arab world. MIT undergraduates and graduates are invited to apply for this volunteer research opportunity.
Submit a cover letter and CV to tirman [at] mit.edu (John Tirman) by Monday, March 8, 5pm ET. Visit the web site for more details.
MIT Science Policy Review (SPR) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal run by MIT graduate students at the intersection of emerging technologies and public policy. In the summer of 2020, we released Volume I, featuring articles on genome editing, self-driving cars, federal R&D funding, and many other fascinating topics, such as antibiotic resistance and the next public health emergency. Our goal is to impartially review policies that address current issues and bridge the gap between scientists, policymakers, and the general public.
We are looking to recruit a Technology Director and a Communications Director on our executive team for the year 2021-2022. Below are short descriptions of the respective roles. If you are interested, please send an email to the Editor-in-Chief of MIT SPR, Yana Petri (scipolrev-exec [at] mit.edu (scipolrev-exec[at]mit[dot]edu)), by March 8th. If you are selected, you will be invited for a follow-up interview. Please note that we will give preference to MIT graduate and undergraduate students.
Technology Director’s Responsibilities:
Communications Director’s Responsibilities:
Pfizer’s Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP) Group in Early Clinical Development is looking for qualified students interested in the application of mathematical models and computer simulation to questions of interest in drug discovery and development.
Find eligibility requirements and additional information here.
Research projects will focus on:
Dependent on the successful candidate’s skills and interests, he or she may assist staff scientists to develop new mechanistic, mathematical models; modify or validate existing models; and/or develop or apply computational approaches to improve our workflows.
Basic skills:
Preferred skills (the successful candidate may possess one or more):
Educational qualifications:
Location: La Jolla, CA /Cambridge, MA or remote
Contact: Blerta Shtylla, PhD (Blerta.Shtylla [at] pfizer.com (Blerta[dot]Shtylla[at]pfizer[dot]com)), Senior Principal Scientist, Quantitative Systems Pharmacology
The Benjamin Siegel Prize of $2500 is offered to the MIT student submitting the best written work on issues in science, technology, and society. The Prize is open to undergraduate and graduate students from any school or department of the Institute.
Submission Requirements
Email Submissions to: Gus Zahariadis at gusz [at] mit.edu (gusz[at]mit[dot]edu)
Deadline: Monday, April 5, 2021 - to midnight (Announcement of the winning paper will be made on Wednesday, May 19, 2021)
Graduate student position available in the Biomedical Optical Imaging and Biophotonics Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Intraoperative Surgical Guidance using Nonlinear Microscopy
A graduate student position is available in the Biomedical Optical Imaging and Biophotonics Group led by Professor James Fujimoto at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our group specializes in translational biomedical optics research using optical coherence tomography (OCT) and nonlinear microscopy. The successful candidate will develop nonlinear microscopy technology and methods for intraoperative guidance of breast and prostate cancer surgery and participate in clinical studies to improve outcomes of cancer surgery. The research involves close collaboration with pathologists, radiologists, and surgeons at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital of the Harvard Medical School.
The following qualifications and skill sets (or a subset of them) are required:
Responsibilities include:
To apply or for more information about the position and group, please contact:
James Fujimoto
Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: appsjgf [at] mit.edu
https://www.rle.mit.edu/boib/
2021 Essay Challenge
The Health Research Alliance (HRA) and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) have partnered to launch the Reimagine Biomedical Research for a Healthier Future Essay Challenge.
The biomedical research enterprise experienced a year of reckoning in 2020. Global cooperation to create a COVID-19 vaccine at an unprecedented pace shows the promise of research. Yet the pandemic, the resulting economic and social uncertainties, and the urgency of addressing systemic racial and regional inequities all add to longstanding concerns about the sustainability of the biomedical research enterprise. We need a new vision for a healthier future. The Reimagine Biomedical Research for a Healthier Future Essay Challenge is your opportunity to propose systemic changes that re-commit to serving society and achieving an equitable, diverse, and creative environment for all those working to advance scientific discovery and improve human well-being.
The Challenge
We invite you to submit a 1500-word essay following these submission guidelines. The winning essay will be published in either PLOS Biology or PLOS Medicine, and will also receive a US$5000 prize. There will also be recognition for up to four essays receiving honorable mentions.
We encourage you to think critically about the current state of biomedical research, globally. We hope our challenge stimulates you to confer with colleagues and consider submitting an individual or multi-authored essay that will propose and elaborate new ideas addressing the challenges for the field – for example:
Winner, and Honorable Mentions
The winning essay judged to have the most potential for inspiring change will be published either in PLOS Biology or PLOS Medicine, whichever is deemed by PLOS the most appropriate venue for the essay. It will also be awarded US$5,000.
Up to four essays will be recognized by an honorable mention, and these will be published on the PLOS Blogs Network and will each receive a US$2,500 prize.
Symposium
The authors of the winning essay, and authors from honorably mentioned essays, will be invited to present their ideas in a Reimagine Biomedical Research for a Healthier Future Symposium hosted by HRA and PLOS in September 2021.
Deadline: March 11, 2021
This date is the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic. It has been chosen to honor those who have experienced so much suffering during this pandemic, and to help convey the real-world importance of this reimagining.
Eligibility
We welcome essay submissions from individuals or from teams, noting that diverse perspectives are critical to solving our most pressing global challenges. Submissions will be considered from those working in academic, private sector, governmental, or non-profit institutions. Authors must commit to abiding by PLOS policies for publication which include Open Access publication under CC BY license, and editorial policies such as disclosure of competing interests. (See full submission guidelines.)
Review Criteria and Process
There is a 1500 word limit to keep essays succinct and to the point.
You should include a brief description of the problem you propose to solve, and devote the majority of the essay to the proposed solutions.
A panel representing HRA member organizations (HRA members) will score applications based on the review criteria outlined below, to create a shortlist of up to ten essays.
No single criterion outweighs another; all are important.
The overall winner, and honorable mentions, will then be selected from this shortlist by the panel of judges, including:
The panel reserves the right to reach out to other reviewers, in confidence, for input into the decision.
Before publication, the winning essay may be edited by a PLOS editor for length and style to conform to the PLOS journal format.
Position: Summer Research Assistant
Research Area: Deep learning, medical imaging, risk prediction, cancer, cardiovascular disease
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Investigator: Vineet Raghu and Michael Lu
Description: The Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center is recruiting research assistants to develop deep learning models to predict risk of future cardiovascular disease and cancer based on medical imaging. Candidates will have the opportunity to leverage large imaging databases with associated molecular and phenotypic data to further improve predictions and to better understand underlying biological mechanisms of increased risk (e.g., genetics, epigenetics, etc.). The candidate will work in a collaborative laboratory consisting of clinical radiologists, biomedical engineers, and computer scientists. There is potential for extending the opportunity with the group through the fall and spring.
The Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center is a clinical research program of the Department of Radiology and Division of Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The program aims to improve cardiovascular health by developing and validating imaging biomarkers of cardiovascular disease with a focus on MRI, PET, and CT. Under the direction of Michael T Lu, MD, MPH (Director of AI) and Udo Hoffmann, MD MPH (PI of CIRC) the group has been interested in developing deep learning-based imaging biomarkers.
Responsibilities: An ideal candidate should have some programming experience (preferably in Python and R) and interest in deep learning, Candidates will curate relevant patient cohorts to answer research questions, process medical images to develop deep learning models, and perform statistical analyses to evaluate and refine models.
Requirements: We seek motivated individuals currently pursuing their MD or Bachelor degrees.
Contact: Interested individuals should send an introductory email with attached CV to vraghu [at] mgh.harvard.edu (vraghu[at]mgh[dot]harvard[dot]edu)
Team CB2 has become a semi-finalist in Activate Bio - see https://www.activate.bio
Team CB2 is in this competition based on a proposed plan to search for and identify CB2 agonists which may have therapeutic potential for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and other inflammatory conditions.
We will be attempting to use computational pharmacology to find CB2 agonists. Based on the crystalline structures of CB2 recently published, we will be determining the binding affinity and molecular characteristics of the pharmacophore - using such software as PyRx.
We are seeking 3-4 enthusiastic and energetic students for Team CB2 to work with me in this competition and share all awards, prizes and/or equity in any start-up to arise from our efforts. We are especially seeking students with: PyRx or PyMol experience, coding experience, medicinal chemistry knowledge and skills along with students with some business background. If interested, please send your letter of interest along with a resume to:
Robert P. Weinberg, DO, JD, MMSc, MIT Alumnus, Class of 1975 (BS, '76), rweinber [at] mit.edu (weinber[at]mit[dot]edu)
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Verily, an Alphabet company, lives at the intersection of technology, data science and healthcare. Our mission is to make the world’s health data useful so that people enjoy longer and healthier lives.
Our team combines expertise in healthcare, data science and technology to improve the health and well-being of our communities. We are developing the infrastructure and solutions to harness the profusion of health information for good. Our data-driven solutions span three primary areas: research, care and innovation. Programs include Project Baseline - our research initiative to increase participation and evidence generation in clinical research; Onduo - our personalized virtual care platform, which includes connected tools, lifestyle coaching and clinical support; and Debug - our effort to reduce the threat of mosquito-borne diseases by combining machine learning with sterile insect technique. We’re also actively working to combat the spread of COVID-19 through new programs like Healthy at Work.
DESCRIPTION
Our Data Science group specializes in analyzing and building models to help make sense of large datasets resulting from bio-sensors, digital pathology, clinical informatics, molecular assays, and patient surveys. We combine domain knowledge and programming expertise with statistical and machine learning knowledge to build scalable models and solutions that help power Verily’s various product areas. We are looking for interns with skill and interest in any of computational biology, digital pathology, clinical informatics, and bio-sensor processing.
This year our intern projects will support exciting emerging, early stage innovations in biology and pathology; novel devices deployed in clinical studies; and analysis of health system records in disease management applications. The internship project will include development and deployment of predictive models on various datasets in the aforementioned areas, as well as building specialized software infrastructure to enable the data science work.
Projects may include: application of Natural Language Processing methods to various EHR data sets for chronic disease management or clinical workflow management; developing methods for analyzing and interpreting data from the Immune Profiler platform; applications of computer vision to pathological images generated by hyperspectral microscopes; development of algorithms that extract physiological state and disease status from high-frequency bio-sensor data streams.
**Join us for a unique 13 week internship that will take place May 17th to August 13th 2021 OR June 14th to September 10th 2021
RESPONSIBILITIES
QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum qualifications:
Preferred qualifications:
If you are interested, apply here: https://verily.com/roles/job/?job_id=2380748
(This posting was submitted by Varesh Prasad, PhD, MEMP '19)
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Embark, the Gladstone Institutes Presidential Postdoctoral Program, aims to increase the representation of underrepresented minoritized groups within the sciences and at Gladstone. This program was launched in 2020 as part of our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
People are the most important part of our organization and are at the center of everything we do. At Gladstone, we know it takes a diverse group of empowered individuals to effectively use science to overcome disease.
We believe that when we bring together people with diverse approaches and ideas to tackle scientific challenges in creative ways, we create tremendous opportunities for discovering new treatments and cures for disease.
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The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is looking for experienced PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers that would like to connect to the German AI research community and discover opportunities for future career steps and/or research collaborations.
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The upcoming virtual tour “Data Science and Artificial Intelligence” will take place from 26 to 30 April 2021. During this one-week period (originally planned as on-site visits) information sessions and virtual visits to research institutions and universities are offered as well as one-to-one talks with the German hosts. As soon as COVID-19 restrictions allow successful participants will receive financial and organizational support to realize a customized individual trip to Germany.
The application deadline is Monday, March 8, 2021.
For any questions related to the program and the call please contact us at ainet [at] daad.de (ainet[at]daad[dot]de)
We have an opening in the ventilation group at Philips research North America (Cambridge Labs) for a position that is advertised for a PhD but is suitable also for a smart Bachelor- or Master-level engineer who is hands on with
This is the link to the job posting https://www.careers.philips.com/professional/na/en/job/378104/Respiratory-Care-Research-Scientist.
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Francesco Vicario, PhD, Senior Scientist, Clinical Analytics Group Leader, Philips Research North America
Philips Innovation Labs, 222 Jacobs Street, 4th floor, Cambridge, MA 02141
Email: francesco.vicario [at] philips.com (francesco[dot]vicario[at]philips[dot]com) (Tel +1 617-245-5759, mobile phone +1 646-402-3696)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Single Cell Genomics and Human Genetics of Complex Eye Diseases
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Segrè laboratory in the Department of Ophthalmology and Ocular Genomics Institute at Massachusetts Eye and Ear (MEE), Harvard Medical School, is seeking a highly qualified and motivated Postdoctoral Fellow to work on innovative projects that combine single cell genomics, human genetics, and systems biology approaches to uncover novel causal mechanisms and pathogenic cell types for complex eye diseases, including glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration, with the ultimate goal of identifying new preventative and therapeutic targets for eye disease.
The successful candidate should have a PhD in computational biology or genomics, biostatistics, computer science, or a related quantitative field, and will be interested in developing and applying novel computational and statistical methods for analyzing single cell RNA-seq and whole genome sequencing data from eye tissues in combination with genome-wide association study data to gain biological insights into cell type-specific processes that lead to complex eye diseases. The postdoctoral fellow will work with data from a collaborative Human Cell Atlas effort aimed at characterizing the cell types and cell typespecific gene expression and genetic regulation for a range of disease-relevant eye tissues. The ideal candidate will have strong programming skills, a solid background in statistics, and experience with largescale data analysis, and will be excited to contribute to advancing the science and medicine of eye disease.The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to develop his or her own research projects and interests within this research area, and to present one’s work at local, national, and international meetings.
The Segrè lab is part of a vibrant research community of computational biologists, experimentalists and clinician scientists in the Ocular Genomics Institute at MEE, which is an international leader for treatment and research in Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, and is affiliated with the Medical and Population Genetics community at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Being a member of our group will provide the opportunity to contribute to large collaborative efforts in the field of genomics and human disease. To learn more about the lab research directions please visit: https://segrelab.meei.harvard.edu/.
If interested, please send your CV, a cover letter describing your previous research experience and future research interests, and contact information for 3 references, to Dr. Ayellet Segrè: ayellet_segre [at] meei.harvard.edu (ayellet_segre[at]meei[dot]harvard[dot]edu).
Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Department: Ophthalmology - Job Code: FELLRES
Computational Biologist/Bioinformaticist in Human Genetics and Functional Genomics of Complex
Eye Diseases
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Segrè laboratory in the Department of Ophthalmology and Ocular Genomics Institute at Massachusetts Eye and Ear (MEE), Harvard Medical School, is seeking a highly qualified and motivated bioinformaticist or computational biologist to work on innovative projects that combine human genetics, functional genomics, and systems biology approaches to uncover novel causal mechanisms and pathogenic cell types for complex eye diseases, including glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, with the ultimate goal of identifying new therapeutic targets for eye disease.
The successful candidate should have a MSc or PhD in bioinformatics, computational biology, biostatistics, computer science, or a related quantitative field, and will be interested to apply and develop computational and statistical methods for analyzing large-scale genotype-phenotype association studies and functional genomics data, such as genetic regulation of gene expression (eQTLs) and single cell RNA-seq data in ocular tissues, and to help build an atlas of genetic regulation in the eye. The ideal candidate will have strong programming skills, a solid statistical understanding, and experience with large-scale data analysis, and will be excited to contribute to advancing the scientific discovery and medicine of eye disease.
The Segrè lab is part of a vibrant research community of computational biologists, experimentalists and clinician scientists in the Ocular Genomics Institute at MEE, which is an international leader for treatment and research in Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, and is affiliated with the Medical and Population Genetics community at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Being a member of our group will provide the opportunity to contribute to large collaborative efforts in the field of genomics and human disease. To learn more about the lab research directions please visit: https://segrelab.meei.harvard.edu/.
If interested, please send your CV, a cover letter describing your previous research experience and future research interests, and contact information for 3 references, to Dr. Ayellet Segrè: ayellet_segre [at] meei.harvard.edu (ayellet_segre[at]meei[dot]harvard[dot]edu).
Position: Bioinformaticist - Department: Ophthalmology - Job Code: I9701
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Investigator: Weissleder, Ralph
Description: The lab of Ralph Weissleder (https://csb.mgh.harvard.edu/weissleder) in the Center for Systems Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School invites applications for Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions. One position is available in computational single cell analysis, spatial profiling, temporal profiling and modeling. Ideal candidates should have a strong academic background, US training and prior publications. The Center has a diverse faculty and offers a lively and supportive environment in which to perform interdisciplinary science.
Responsibilities: We seek creative thinkers who take risks in defining and addressing important problems, and who use quantitative experimental, computational and/or theoretical approaches in their work. Research fellows are encouraged to write their own grants, following the training period, to launch their independent research.
Requirements: A PhD, or MD/PhD and permanent residency is required. To apply, please send your CV, a summary of your most significant research accomplishments (300 words) and the email addresses of three references to: Serena Sullivan (Sullivan.Serena [at] mgh.harvard.edu (Sullivan[dot]Serena[at]mgh[dot]harvard[dot]edu)), CSB, Simches Research Center, 185 Cambridge Street, Suite 5.210, Boston, MA 02114.
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Investigator: Weissleder, Ralph
Description: The lab of Ralph Weissleder (https://csb.mgh.harvard.edu/weissleder) in the Center for Systems Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School invites applications for Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions. One position is available in chemical synthesis of small molecules and bioconjugation. The Center has a diverse faculty with backgrounds in chemistry, biology, physics, engineering and medicine, and offers a lively and supportive environment in which to perform interdisciplinary science.
Responsibilities: We seek creative thinkers who take risks in defining and addressing important problems, and who use quantitative experimental, computational and/or theoretical approaches in their work.
Requirements: A PhD, MD/PhD or MD and permanent residency is required. The ideal candidate has an extensive synthetic background and track record in chemical syntheses and analyses. To apply, please send your CV, a summary of your most significant research accomplishments (300 words) and the email addresses of three references to: Serena Sullivan (Sullivan.Serena [at] mgh.harvard.edu (Sullivan[dot]Serena[at]mgh[dot]harvard[dot]edu)), CSB, Simches Research Center, 185 Cambridge Street, Suite 5.210, Boston, MA 02114.
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Investigator: Weissleder, Ralph
Description: The lab of Ralph Weissleder (https://csb.mgh.harvard.edu/weissleder) in the Center for Systems Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School invites applications for Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions. Several positions are available in immunooncology and computational single cell analysis. Ideal candidates should have a strong academic background, US training and prior publications. The Center has a diverse faculty and offers a lively and supportive environment in which to perform interdisciplinary science.
Responsibilities: We seek creative thinkers who take risks in defining and addressing important problems, and who use quantitative experimental, computational and/or theoretical approaches in their work. Research fellows are encouraged to write their own grants, following the training period, to launch their independent research.
Requirements: A PhD, or MD/PhD and permanent residency is required. To apply, please send your CV, a summary of your most significant research accomplishments (300 words) and the email addresses of three references to: Serena Sullivan (Sullivan.Serena [at] mgh.harvard.edu (Sullivan[dot]Serena[at]mgh[dot]harvard[dot]edu)), CSB, Simches Research Center, 185 Cambridge Street, Suite 5.210, Boston, MA 02114.
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Investigator: Weissleder, Ralph
Description: The lab of Ralph Weissleder (https://csb.mgh.harvard.edu/weissleder) in the Center for Systems Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School invite applications for Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions. One or two positions are available in molecular profiling of cancer cells (see Sci Transl Med. 2014;6(219):219ra9). The ideal candidate should have a background in microfluidics, optics (microscopy), protein/DNA diagnostics, and cell biology, with expertise in system implementation and benchwork. The Center (csb.mgh.harvard.edu) has a diverse faculty with backgrounds in engineering, chemistry, biology, physics, and medicine, and offers a lively and supportive environment in which to perform interdisciplinary science.
Responsibilities: We seek creative thinkers who take risks in defining and addressing important problems, and who use quantitative experimental, computational and/or theoretical approaches in their work. Research fellows are encouraged to write their own grants, following the training period, to launch their independent research.
Requirements: A PhD, or MD/PhD and permanent residency is required. To apply, please send your CV, a summary of your most significant research accomplishments (300 words) and the email addresses of three references to: Serena Sullivan (Sullivan.Serena [at] mgh.harvard.edu (Sullivan[dot]Serena[at]mgh[dot]harvard[dot]edu)), CSB, Simches Research Center, 185 Cambridge Street, Suite 5.210, Boston, MA 02114.
The Flannick Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Broad Institute is seeking PhD students and postdoctoral fellows to develop novel methods and analyses of genetic and genomic data for complex and rare diseases. Positions are fully funded for at least the next 4-5 years by three NIH grants. Several research areas are possible based on research interests, with skills emphasized ranging from statistical methods development to software engineering to genomic data science. Interested students should email Jason Flannick at flannick [at] broadinstitute.org (flannick[at]broadinstitute[dot]org).
Our lab develops computational approaches to use human genetic and broader genomic data to understand or better treat both complex and rare diseases. Our research lies at the intersection of computer science, statistical genetics, and computational biology, and it includes the development of fundamental statistical methods and computational algorithms, large-scale exome sequence association analysis, and computational disease modeling. We play leadership roles in high-profile international consortia focused on aggregating and analyzing >500,000 exome sequences for type 2 diabetes (T2D-GENES), developing a platform to mine large-scale genetic datasets and make results openly available through public knowledge portals (AMP-T2D), and connecting disparate biomedical data types to bridge the gap between basic and translational science (the Biomedical Translator). We have lab space at both Boston Children’s Hospital and the Broad Institute, and remote work is also possible as desired.
More information about our lab is available at http://www.flannicklab.org.
Two positions available
The Center for Systems Biology (CSB) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Research Institute and Harvard Medical School (HMS), in Boston is seeking outstanding scientists for faculty positions to start July 1, 2021. The CSB is one of the five thematic Centers at MGH and is located in the Simches Research Building on the MGH campus.
The search is for candidate(s) to be hired at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Applicants must have a PhD in Immunology or a closely related field, and/or MD or equivalent degree by the start of the employment. Candidates must have a track record of exceptional achievement in basic or translational research, a history of independent funding and the potential to develop an outstanding independent research program that supports the Institute's ultimate goal of harnessing the immune system to prevent and cure human diseases.
Broad areas of interest (see research highlights) include understanding the heterogeneity of human immune cells, innate immunobiology, imaging of the immune system, systems immunology, machine learning, mathematical modeling, computational analyses and engineering approaches directed toward understanding innate and adaptive immunity. Our goals are to decipher how the human immune system functions, and to apply newly learned knowledge to develop new diagnostics, biomarkers and therapies.
The applicant should have a strong research plan which should synergize with ongoing basic, applied and translational research efforts at CSB and MGHRI. The successful candidate will be expected to build and maintain an internationally recognized, extramurally funded research program. The candidate should possess the ability to work collaboratively with other scientists.
Interested candidates should submit application materials electronically. Each application must include one PDF file with: i) a cover letter; ii) a curriculum vitae; iii) a research plan with statement of impact. You are required to provide three or more references who will be contacted automatically to upload reference letters. Only completed applications will be reviewed.
Please address questions to Serena Sullivan (Sullivan.Serena [at] mgh.harvard.edu (Sullivan[dot]Serena[at]mgh[dot]harvard[dot]edu)), CSB, Simches Research Center, 185 Cambridge Street, Suite 5.210, Boston, MA 02114. Responses received by February 1, 2020 will be given priority.
Postdoctoral position available in the Biomedical Optical Imaging and Biophotonics Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Intraoperative Surgical Guidance using Nonlinear Microscopy
A postdoctoral position is available in the Biomedical Optical Imaging and Biophotonics Group led by Professor James Fujimoto at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our group specializes in translational biomedical optics research using optical coherence tomography (OCT) and nonlinear microscopy. The successful candidate will develop nonlinear microscopy technology and methods for intraoperative guidance of breast and prostate cancer surgery and participate in clinical studies to improve outcomes of cancer surgery. The research involves close collaboration with pathologists, radiologists, and surgeons at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital of the Harvard Medical School.
The position is intended for candidates who wish to broaden their research and management skills in preparation for an academic career or a thought leader in industry. The position provides an opportunity to develop skills in: advanced microscopy imaging technology, designing and managing clinical studies, research proposal planning and writing, reporting to sponsors, mentoring junior students, and translating new technology / methods to patient care. Candidates with previous experience in other optical imaging technologies, such as confocal microscopy, light sheet microscopy, photoacoustics, or OCT, can broaden their skills and will be able to participate in a wider range of projects.
The following qualifications and skill sets or a subset of them are required:
Responsibilities include:
To apply, please submit a curriculum vitae and the names and contact information of 3 references to:
James Fujimoto
Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: appsjgf [at] mit.edu
https://www.rle.mit.edu/boib/
ROLE SUMMARY
The Vaccines Research Division and the Inflammation and Immunology Research Unit is seeking a dynamic individual to join the Systems Immunology group and support single-cell elucidation and characterization of Adjuvant Biology responses.
This person will be responsible for the next-generation profiling and analysis of immune responses elicited by various adjuvants and adjuvanted vaccines. They will execute technical and laboratory aspects of in-house bulk and single-cell RNAseq analysis projects, including the design and execution of laboratory experiments. The candidate will also statistically analyze and correlate high-dimensional profiling data with humoral and cellular immune responses in support of various Pfizer vaccine programs.
Finally, the candidate will be expected to provide training and technical guidance to colleagues in a matrix environment as a systems immunology expert.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
If anyone has questions about this job/working at Pfizer, please do not hesitate to contact Marc Wadsworth, PhD (marcwadsworth2 [at] gmail.com (marcwadsworth2[at]gmail[dot]com)), an MIT Chemistry and Shalek Lab alum currently working at Pfizer.
Flagship Pioneering is recruiting for our 2021 Fellows Program (description here). It’s a 12 week paid fellowship sponsored over the summer at Flagship’s offices in Cambridge, although due to the pandemic we successfully transitioned into a remote experience last summer with great success. The fellowship is designed to be a unique opportunity to be exposed to our approach to science, innovation, and venture creation, as well as learn from our talented team to apply this approach first-hand. We’re looking for amazing PhDs and postdocs who might be interested. You can find a job description here and the application is available at this link.
Job Description
J&J Vision(JJV), a member of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies, is recruiting a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Research & Development (R&D) located in Jacksonville, Florida.
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. specializes in the manufacturing of industry-leading contact lenses, which it markets under ACUVUE® Brand Contact Lenses. Ever since the ACUVUE® Brand transformed vision correction in 1988 with the world's first soft disposable contact lenses, we've passionately pursued new technologies and the highest quality standards. We're proud that ACUVUE® lenses are worn by more people than any other brand.
At Johnson & Johnson Vision, we have a bold ambition: to change the trajectory of eye health. That’s why, through our operating companies, we’ve developed solutions for every stage of life—to help people see better, connect better and live better. We partner with eye care professionals to provide some of the world’s leading products and technologies to address refractive error, cataracts, dry eye, and beyond. We are committed to using our reach and size for good and strive to put quality eye care within reach of everyone, everywhere. Visit us at www.jjvision.com. Follow @JNJVision on Twitter and Johnson & Johnson Vision on LinkedIn.
The candidate will work with a multidisciplinary team to investigate the impact of various chemical components on the polymerization kinetics and performance of Class II and Class III medical devices. Project work will include raw material analysis, formulations, photo-initiated polymerization, device fabrication and analytical characterization of the finished products. Expertise in polymerization kinetics, polymer mechanics, synthetic organic chemistry, and photochemistry are required. Knowledge of 2-photon excitations, related chemistries, and/or process development is desirable. Scale up from glove box feasibility to pilot line runs with acceptable repeatability and reproducibility targets is anticipated.
The Post-Doctoral Candidate will:
Qualifications
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies are equal opportunity employers, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Primary Location: United States-Florida-Jacksonville-7500 Centurion Parkway
Organization: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. (6094)
Job Function: R&D (Requisition ID 2005865456W)
Apply on the Johnson & Johnson site directly by clicking on this job link.
Come Join Analog Devices (ADI) – a place where Innovation meets Impact. For the past 50 years, Analog Devices has been inventing innovative technologies that transform lives. Get hands-on experience working with the brightest minds to solve complex problems that matter: from autonomous vehicles, drones and factories to augmented reality to remote healthcare. Enjoy a culture that values aligned goals, balanced work-life priorities, continuous learning throughout your career and shared rewards. At ADI, we invest in you and succeed together because we believe that happy, healthy, intellectually-challenged people drive our growth and market leadership.
ADI helps customers bridge the physical and digital worlds with unmatched technologies that solve real-life problems and make the world smarter, healthier, greener and safer. With over $5 billion in revenue, ADI specializes in high-performance analog, mixed-signal, power, and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits that sense, measure, interpret, connect, power, secure and transform how the world experiences the world around them. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.analog.com; and our education library where you can find technical articles and video tutorials here.
Internship opportunities can be found here.
Seeking scientists who are passionate about developing algorithms and deploying tools for the analysis of -omic data to join our disease cancelling technology team.
Immuneering's Disease Cancelling Technology (DCT) computational platform accelerates target identification and drug discovery. We are expanding DCT by creating tools and interactive interfaces to facilitate interpretation of the insights generated by our algorithms.
We are looking for a computational biologist with a strong background in tool development. The ideal candidate has experience with R package and shiny development, has created and managed databases, and is an expert at applying statistical analysis and machine learning to genomic datasets.
Our team consists of brilliant people willing to share their knowledge and eager to learn from each other. You will work in a collaborative and nurturing environment that values diversity, personal development and integrity. We believe that diverse perspectives and experiences drive innovation. Immuneering is a Great Place to Work-Certified company with an excellent work-life balance.
Location
San Diego, New York or Cambridge
Responsibilities
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Additional Qualifications
To apply, contact careers [at] immuneering.com (careers[at]immuneering[dot]com) ATTN: DCT Hiring Manager
Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Area: Synthetic biology, molecular systems biology, tumor immunology
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Investigator: Miller, Miles
Description: The Miller Lab in the Center for Systems Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School is recruiting postdoctoral research scholars to develop new technologies for spatially manipulating cellular dynamics in situ within tissue, using an integration of optogenetics and translational imaging technologies. The candidate will work in a highly collaborative laboratory of several postdoc members with backgrounds in engineering, computer science, biology, chemistry, and medicine. The laboratory provides a supportive research environment working with clinicians in the hospital and industry partners.
Responsibilities: An ideal candidate has expertise in one or more of the following areas: molecular biology, synthetic biology, optics (microscopy), optogenetics, cell signaling, cell biology, and relevant areas.
Requirements: We seek motivated and creative individuals with a PhD or MD/PhD degree. To apply, please send your CV, a summary of your most significant research accomplishments, and the email addresses of two references to: Miles Miller (miles.miller [at] mgh.harvard.edu (miles[dot]miller[at]mgh[dot]harvard[dot]edu)).
The Center for Systems Biology (CSB) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is currently recruiting for a postdoctoral research position in the Laboratory for Multiscale Network Biology directed by Prof. Miles Miller, PhD.
CSB is located within the Simches Research Building on the main MGH campus in Boston, and features a dynamic, multi-disciplinary environment with close interactions with MGH clinician-researchers and faculty across Harvard Medical School (csb.mgh.harvard.edu). Program awardees will have the opportunity to
work closely with faculty and will benefit from didactic educational opportunities and seminars.
A key focus of the research program centers on the development and application of advanced imaging methods to study the in vivo biology of diseases such as cancer. CSB is home to cutting edge technologies for performing in vivo confocal and multiphoton microscopy, multi-scale imaging through whole tissues and
organs, and highly multiplexed immunofluorescence, all of which can complement and inform clinically-relevant modalities such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography / X-ray computed tomography (PET/CT). CSB is at the forefront of developing new approaches to integrate imaging with computational and genomic techniques, including machine learning and single-cell RNA sequencing, to discover new biological and clinical insights.
We offer excellent training opportunities in a highly collaborative department that brings together synthetic biology, chemistry, chemical biology, molecular biology, systems biology, imaging and cancer research. MGH-CSB is home to highly cited faculty and is richly immersed in the broader Harvard Medical School community. Imaging and analysis technologies in part developed within CSB have progressed to clinical trials, venture creation and commercialization, and FDA approval in some cases.
A strong background in life sciences and excellent command of spoken and written English are essential. All interested applicants should submit a CV, transcript, and a letter of recommendation to Serena Sullivan
(sullivan.serena [at] mgh.harvard.edu (sullivan[dot]serena[at]mgh[dot]harvard[dot]edu)).
Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Area: Engineering, Extracellular vesicles, Neuroscience
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Investigator: Im, Hyungsoon (https://csb.mgh.harvard.edu/hyungsoon_im/)
Description: The Im Lab in the Center for Systems Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School seeks highly motivated postdoctoral research scholars to develop next-generation diagnostic technologies for clinical translation. The candidate will work in a highly collaborative laboratory of several
postdoc members with backgrounds in engineering, computer science, biology, chemistry, and medicine. The laboratory provides a supportive research environment working with clinicians in the hospital and industry partners.
Responsibilities: An ideal candidate has expertise in one or more of the following areas: Engineering, Optics (microscopy), Microfluidics, Organ-on-a-chip, Extracellular Vesicles, Biology, Chemistry, Neuroscience, Cell Biology, Computer Science, or relevant areas.
Requirements: We seek motivated and creative individuals with a PhD or MD/PhD degree. To apply, please send your CV, a summary of your most significant research accomplishments, and the email addresses of two references to: Hyungsoon Im (Im.Hyungsoon [at] mgh.harvard.edu (Im[dot]Hyungsoon[at]mgh[dot]harvard[dot]edu)).
Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Area: Artificial intelligence, deep learning, computer science,
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Investigator: Im, Hyungsoon (https://csb.mgh.harvard.edu/hyungsoon_im/)
Description: A postdoctoral research position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Hyungsoon Im in the Center for Systems Biology (CSB) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School. We are interested in candidates with research background in artificial intelligence, deep learning, computer science, and relevant areas. We have active projects developing and applying AI algorithms for medical and microscopic imaging as well as their clinical translation.
Responsibilities: Expertise in one or more of the following areas is desired but not required: computer science, bioinformatics, engineering or relevant areas. The ideal candidate will have interest in the development of new deep-learning algorithms based on medical data and their applications in translational medicine.
Requirements: We seek motivated and creative individuals with a PhD or MD/PhD degree. To apply, please send your CV, a summary of your most significant research accomplishments, and the email addresses of two references to: Hyungsoon Im (Im.Hyungsoon [at] mgh.harvard.edu (Im[dot]Hyungsoon[at]mgh[dot]harvard[dot]edu)).
Graduate student and postdoc positions available immediately in the Gerber Lab to develop novel machine learning models to elucidate fundamental rules governing the formation and maintenance of complex microbial ecosystems in the mammalian gut under the National Science Foundation funded MTM 2: The rules of microbiota colonization of the mammalian gut project. Using a combination of novel computational and high-throughput experimental methods, we seek to elucidate underlying mechanistic rules governing the formation, maintenance and future behavior of complex ecosystems of microbes in the gut. The position will give you the opportunity to develop advanced machine learning methods while working on real, biologically relevant problems. Techniques we use include Bayesian nonparametric models, dynamical systems inference from sparse data, interpretable models, approximate inference methods and relaxations of discrete variables to enable fully-differentiable models.
The candidate is expected to engage with the broader machine learning community by presenting work at top machine learning conferences, as well as publishing applications of new methods in high impact biological journals. Although some experience modeling biological systems is required, microbiome specific knowledge is not required. This could be a good fit for either someone with a strong machine learning background who wants to get domain-specific research experience, OR someone with a strong mathematical background who wants to get more machine learning experience.
See https://gerber.bwh.harvard.edu/jobs/ for more information.
Come join our Applications Development Engineering team at Berkeley Lights!
Development Engineer
Emeryville, CA - Applications Engineering /Full-time
Here at Berkeley Lights, we think cells are awesome! Cells are capable of manufacturing cures for diseases, fibers for clothing, energy in the form of biofuels, and food proteins for nutrition. So the question is, if nature is capable of manufacturing the products we need in a scalable way, why aren’t we doing more of this? Well, the answer is that with the solutions available today, it is hard. Berkeley Lights is here to change all of that! Our extremely sophisticated proprietary technology and Beacon® and LightningTM systems accelerate the rate researchers can discover and develop cell-based products in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost of conventional, legacy research methods. Using our tools and solutions, scientists can find the best cells, the first time they look.
Our goal is to continue to collaborate with customers to drive the adoption of our technologies, making cell-based products and therapeutics more easily accessible the world over! You will play a major role here in the creation and development of these technologies, and our success will depend on you! We have been changing how the world develops cell-based products since 2011, and now our family of around 200 employees welcomes you to consider joining us on this incredible journey.
This role exists at the interface of the Applications and Software Engineering teams. In this role, you will manage the Python code base that includes all application-level code used to execute biological workflows on Berkeley Lights’ platforms. This role requires a strong foundation in object-oriented programming as well as exposure to advanced lab automation equipment with an emphasis on microscopy and microfluidics. A collaborative and supportive mindset is required to enable success of the Team.
Successful candidates may have the opportunity to travel on assignment to customer sites in support of our Field Applications Team.
Find the full job posting here.
Here is a note from Or Gadish, HST MEMP PhD '19:
I've been working at Berkeley Lights for almost exactly a year now since I graduated and I've loved the company culture and overall goals, the products we make, the specific work our team does, the people I work with, and especially during COVID, the fact that our technology is already enabling vaccine and antibody treatment development. The Applications Development Engineer is at the heart of what the company does, working at the intersection of engineering and science, combining software, hardware, biology, and communications. This kind of work is both exciting and allows you to learn a lot of new things (and also great for the overall resume).
Aside from the awesome job, the company is in Emeryville, CA which means that you can live a short commute away from San Francisco or from the (relatively) lower housing prices in the East Bay.
There is also a posting for a Product Engineer role on the team for someone with BS or MS with 3-5 years experience.
If you (or someone you know) is interested in either position, please check out the posting and reach out to me at or.gadish [at] berkeleylights.com (or[dot]gadish[at]berkeleylights[dot]com)!
The Jain Lab at University of California, San Francisco (https://ishajainlab.com) is looking for motivated, hard-working and curious applicants. We recently discovered that chronic hypoxia (equivalent to living in the mountains of Peru or Nepal) can serve as a therapy for mitochondrial disease in mouse models (https://jainlabblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/hypoxiatherapy_science_2016.pdf). This approach is currently in clinical trials. We are now interested in studying the effects of low and high oxygen on additional disorders and age-associated processes, as well as understanding the fundamentals of how organisms sense and adapt to varying oxygen tensions. We are similarly interested in studying causes of subclinical and vitamin deficiencies and diseases that might benefit from megavitamin therapy. We will be using a combination of systems-level approaches (CRISPR screens, metabolomics, etc.) and animal physiology to tackle these questions. Post-docs will be encouraged to lead independent projects resulting in high impact publications, present at conferences and prepare for long-term careers in academia or industry.
If you are interested in working on exciting problems related to oxygen/vitamins/aging, email Dr. Jain at Isha.Jain [at] ucsf.edu (Isha[dot]Jain[at]ucsf[dot]edu) with a short description of your past research experiences and a resume/CV.
Dr. Jain received her PhD through the HST MEMP Program at MIT.
Research Fellow in Digital Health: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Division of Digital Psychiatry
(co-sponsored, dual appointment with the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School)
About:
This unique research fellowship at the intersection of digital health, smartphone apps, digital phenotyping, biostatistics, and patient care offers the opportunity to work at the frontier of mobile health at Harvard Medical School. This fellowship focuses on evaluation, analysis, and dissemination of clinically focused insights derived from novel data obtained from clinical research studies focusing on college mental health and serious mental illnesses.
The Digital Psychiatry Division (https://www.digitalpsych.org/) of the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School Affiliated Teaching Hospital, is leading efforts to translate advances in digital phenotyping and smartphone interventions for mental health to clinical solutions to improve the care of patients with illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. The team is led by John Torous MD, board certified in both psychiatry and clinical informatics and offers the opportunity to make a strong impact and improve mental health with new technologies.
Start: Can be immediately and negotiable
Salary: Competitive
Job Description:
With this current opening we are seeking a candidate with strong quantitative skillsets applicable to digital mental health including time series analysis, imputation, creation of novel models, and application machine learning methods. Longitudinal patient level data is today generated from smartphone sensors, surveys, and metadata with the opportunity to combine neuroimaging and genetic data sets. Immediate goals include creating models of relapse prediction based on smartphone data to provide patients with early warning of elevated risk. The successful candidate would be expected to lead several projects at the intersection of digital mental health, global health, and clinical care that would result in first author publications. Finally, the successful candidate would be expected to work with our team in pursuing both industry and academic grants to expand this work.
An ideal candidate has been awarded or has nearly completed the requirements for a doctoral degree or foreign equivalent and is a trainee pursuing advanced studies beyond the doctoral level in preparation for an independent career in quantitative data science. In collaboration with and under the mentorship of the Principle Investigator (PI), a successful Research Fellow will engage in activities in the digital mental health space that will further his or her professional development. The position can be co-sponsored with the Division of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and offer protected time there as well as at the medical center.
Required Qualifications:
Desired Qualifications:
For more information, please email John Torous, MD: jtorous [at] bidmc.harvard.edu (jtorous[at]bidmc[dot]harvard[dot]edu).
Martinos Center Research Fellow in Simultaneous PET/MR Neuroimaging
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging MGH, HMS
We are seeking two postdoctoral fellows to join our team to pursue research in simultaneous PET/MR imaging in neuroscience applications. Our research focuses on developing and applying novel PET/MRI methods to investigate the neurochemical underpinnings of psychiatric and neurological disorders. We have projects and training opportunities in the following area: (1) Quantify neuroreceptor dynamics and evaluate functional consequences with pharmacological imaging in animal models and human subjects, with applications in pain, addiction, and other psychiatric disorders; and (2) Assess the impacts of neurovascular coupling/function on PET radiotracer kinetics, with applications in neurodegenerative disorders.
Our research programs are highly translational spanning from animal models, first-in-human studies, to clinical applications. The appointment as a Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School research fellow will be for 1 year with possibility for extension based on performance and the availability of funding. The positions are available immediately.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated researcher with a desire to begin an independent career related to or involving neuroimaging. The position requires a PhD degree in Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Neuroscience or a related field. However, we will consider candidates of any scientific background. This position requires experience in analysis of medical imaging data. Experience with MRI or PET is a plus. Extremely strong candidates with minimal imaging experience are still encouraged to apply. Strong written and oral English communication skills are required.
Additional Skills/Abilities/Competencies
The job requires a candidate who is mature, responsible and flexible with excellent organizational and people skills. S/He must be able to work with in a fast-paced environment and should be able to problemsolve/troubleshoot, juggle and prioritize multiple tasks and seek assistance when appropriate.
Application
Interested applicants should send a cover letter describing research interests and experience, an updated CV, and names and contact information of three references to: Hsiao-Ying (Monica) Wey, Ph.D. (E-mail: hsiaoying.wey [at] mgh.harvard.edu (hsiaoying[dot]wey[at]mgh[dot]harvard[dot]edu)). Please contain “Research Fellow Application: Your Name” in the e-mail subject line.
The Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers.
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We’re now accepting applications from graduating students for our winter session.
*While Fellows can attend the program from anywhere, they will still interview for roles in their chosen program location. All eligibility criteria still applies. Visit our FAQ page for more information.
INSIGHT FELLOWS
What is Insight?
The Insight Fellows Program is a seven-week professional training fellowship for graduating students and working professionals looking to transition to thriving careers as data scientists, engineers, and other cutting-edge professionals. Insight takes a unique approach, working closely with partner companies to match Fellows with the hiring teams that represent the best fit for their skills and experience.
Gain a Network
Since 2012, Insight has helped over 3,000 Fellows transition to thriving careers in a variety of data and tech fields. By joining the Fellowship, you’re also joining an extensive community of industry leaders, and gaining connections to thousands of data and tech professionals from hundreds of companies. This is an investment in your future that pays dividends for years to come.
Getting Hired
88% of Insight Fellows accept a job offer in their chosen field within 6 months of finishing the Fellows Program, and the median time to hire is 8 weeks.
Starting Salary
The average starting base salary for Insight Fellows across all our locations is $126,000. Average bonus is $12,000, and almost all Fellows receive either equity or stock grants. The average stock grant for publicly-traded companies is $26,000 per year.
Hiring Companies
Insight alumni are now working at Facebook, LinkedIn, The New York Times, Apple, Airbnb, Netflix, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, CVS Health, 23andMe, Bloomberg, NBC, Bosch, American Express, Microsoft, and 700+ other top companies.
Post-Program Experience
Beyond the seven week program, Insight Fellows get access to a structured, highly-personalized post-program experience. This personalized post-program experience that we’re introducing as of Summer 2020, helps Insight Fellows get jobs 40% faster and earn $10,000-15,000/year more than the results quoted above. Learn more here.
Available Programs: Artificial Intelligence, Data Engineering, DevOps Engineering, Decentralized Consensus, Security, Data Science*, Health Data Science*,
*Please note that our programs are open to all degree levels, except our Data Science and Health programs, which have a PhD requirement.
Locations:
Sessions will take place remotely, but Fellows will interview for jobs in the following cities:
San Francisco, New York, Boston, Seattle, Toronto, Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, Denver, Portland, Washington DC
Want to learn more about Insight and our programs? Visit: https://www.insightfellows.com
Not ready to apply? Sign up for our notification list: https://notifiy.insightdatascience.com/notify
Questions? Email us at info [at] insightdatascience.com (info[at]insightdatascience[dot]com)
NIH Funded Postdoc Training in Informatics, Genomics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Biomedical Data Science at Boston Children's Hospital
The Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children’s Hospital is now accepting applications for an NIH Funded Postdoc Training opportunity. The program has been committed to recruiting and retaining postdoctoral trainees who are URiM. We have maintained our commitment to diversity through prioritizing applications from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds.
We are excited to announce the launch of LabShares Newton, the first collaborative laboratory and biotech incubator in Newton, Massachusetts. LabShares provides a fully equipped laboratory, office space, and shared services to entrepreneurial biotechs without the hassle, lag time, and high upfront costs associated with building and managing their own labs.
Through participation in the LabShares community, members receive a wide range of benefits and services. LabShares is conveniently located in a light-filled, modern office park near the Charles River -- just 15 minutes from Kendall Square with free parking, a gym, and a Fooda cafeteria.
LabShares is near capacity for its current space and has begun an expansion to double in size. We expect to open our newly renovated second floor in early 2019 and are accepting reservations now.
Check out the links below for more information. If you would like to schedule a tour contact Hannah Schram (jenna [at] labshares.com (hannah[at]labshares[dot]com), 857-222-5817).
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
Clinical and Translational Research Course for PhD Students
Two-week intensive introductory course to demonstrate the role of PhD scientists in clinical and translational research, provide an overview and examples of how basic science and clinical observations lead to translational research, and increase awareness and access to Ph.D. role models, research resources, and potential career opportunities at the NIH. https://cc.nih.gov/training/phdcourse/index.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
Core Curriculum in Clinical Research
Free courses offered include: Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR); Principles of Clinical Pharmacology (PCP); and Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research. These courses are offered as distance learning courses. https://cc.nih.gov/training/training1.html
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."
Young Alumni Fireside Chat w/ Xiangyu Zhang (PhD ’20 BCS, Vertex)
Contact: Richard Zhang (zrichard [at] mit.edu (zrichard[at]mit[dot]edu))
On Thursday March 11, at 6pm EST, Xiangyu Zhang (PhD'20 in Brain and Cognitive Sciences) will share her story.
Xiangyu is currently working as a research scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals to develop novel gene therapy for neuromuscular diseases with CRISPR technology. Prior to Vertex, she completed her graduate study in neuroscience at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT in 2020. Her PhD thesis work focused on identifying neuronal mechanisms underlying emotional behaviors and memories. She is passionate about applying scientific innovations to create transformative therapies, in particular for neurological diseases.
She would be happy to talk to fellow grad students about her transition to industry and undergrads + master's students about pursuing a PhD program. She is also excited to speak about her work and the business implications.
Location: Zoom Speaking in an informal lecture style and featuring recent grad, the Young Alumni Fireside Chat takes place in the form of a moderated interview followed by Q&A from the audience.
RSVP is requested. You can stay updated about our event and activity through our Google calendar.
The MIT Biotech Group invites you to join us for the inaugural 2021 MIT Biotech Group Career Fair
During the 1-day virtual career fair, students and trainees in the MIT and biotech community will have opportunities to meet with 50+ companies seeking to connect with local talent. A keynote panel will start off the day, followed by company representatives meeting attendees at virtual booths, and 20-minute gold-sponsor company presentations throughout the afternoon to provide a broad range of educational, networking, and career opportunities related to professional development in the biotech sector.
Are you a Graduate or Undergraduate Student, Post-Doc, MBA, or Medical Student looking to connect with recruiters in the biotechnology space? Receive access to the Fair and all information necessary to prepare by registering today. Use this form to upload a PDF of your resume for the Resume Book that will be made available to the companies in attendance.
Visit our website to learn more about the schedule for the day and see the list of companies currently registered to attend.
The MBG Career Fair is free and open to all current MIT Students, Trainees, Affiliates, & Alumni as well as members of the broader biotech community.
Reach out to us at mbgcareerfair [at] mit.edu (mbgcareerfair[at]mit[dot]edu) for any inquiries.
Our Fair is organized in collaboration with the MIT Departments of Biology, Biological Engineering, and Chemical Engineering, the Program in Health Sciences & Technology, the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science at MIT, and Cell Ag @ MIT.
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!
To safeguard the health and well-being of our entire community, all recruiting activities, including career fairs, will adopt a virtual format. Information on this page will be updated regularly.
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.
We all know that 75-80% of the jobs are not posted anywhere and most of these jobs are filled through referrals and networking. It takes months to network and find the right opportunities. Neerja Bharti, Sloan EMBA 15 has launched GeniusMesh to solve that particular problem within the MIT ecosystem.
GeniusMesh is a trusted job search platform that connects MIT AlumCos (companies founded or with current alumni) with MIT candidates looking for Sr. Manager to Executive roles. Being a trusted site for both parties, finding the right candidate for an existing job search or future potential opportunity becomes easy. You would be able to find a contract, contract to hire or full-time opportunities faster. Both local, as well as international candidates, would be able to take advantage of our platform.
“Our ultimate goal is to create an intimate and trusted hiring environment by making it easier for any MIT-affiliated graduate to connect with the right companies, and alums to find top talent faster”
Please sign up and let us know what you are looking for and we will bring the right opportunities to you. You would also be able to search part-time and full-time jobs in stealth mode. We don’t share your profile without your permission.
Joining the platform today will just take a couple of minutes! www.geniusmesh.com
Please contact Neerja directly at Neerja [at] geniusmesh.com (Neerja[at]geniusmesh[dot]com) if you have any questions.
The OGE sponsors MIT's iGrad financial literacy portal, with resources to help with financial support.
The iGrad Financial Literacy platform (offered for free to the entire MIT community in collaboration with the MIT Federal Credit Union) is customized for MIT with videos, articles, games, job board, searchable scholarship database, and interactive modules on a wide range of topics, including emergency-funding, credit card management, identity protection, spending smarts, etc. it is a great financial literacy tool for students and the MIT community in general.
More information can be found at oge.mit.edu/finances.
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.
Sign up for the Graduate Student Career Advising mailing list here.
MIT Career Advising & Professional Development (CAPD) is pleased to announce MIT’s subscription to The Versatile PhD, a web-based resource for PhDs considering careers beyond academia. Our subscription, generously supported by OGE, can be accessed by students and alumni via CAPD’s webpage and student CareerBridge accounts. Once students register, they can simply log in to the site directly (www.versatilephd.com)
There are hundreds of jobs and internships now posted on CareerBridge, under both the Job Search and the On-Campus Interviews tabs. Check both tabs and apply as soon as possible.
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