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Paula Hammond and Arup Chakraborty named Institute Professors

The two chemical engineers, including and HST faculty member and the founding director of IMES, are awarded MIT’s highest faculty honor.

Zooming into Residency

Pandemic prompts remote interviews with hospitals for grads, including an HST MD graduate.

Alex Shalek receives award that supports high-impact studies into new areas of HIV research

HST faculty member receives Avant-Garde (DP1 Pioneer) Award from the National Institute for Drug Abuse. The award supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity at all career levels who propose high-impact research that will open new areas of HIV research and/or lead to new avenues for prevention and treatment of HIV among people who use drugs.

Large collaboration creates cell atlas of COVID-19 pathology

Single-cell analysis of autopsy samples from COVID-19 patients shows how the lungs repeatedly tried, and failed, to repair themselves—according to a collaboration of researchers from several institutions and hospitals, including MIT and Harvard, and including an HST faculty member.

Engineering disease fighters

With synthetic biology and AI, Jim Collins, an HST faculty member, takes on this pandemic—and the next.