News & Events

On April 27, the National Academy of Sciences elected 120 new members and 26 international associates, including three professors from MIT — Abhijit Banerjee; Bonnie Berger, an HST faculty member; and Roger Summons — recognizing their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”

In Feburary, the first-ever AI Powered Drug Discovery and Manufacturing Conference, conceived and hosted by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health, drew attendees including pharmaceutical industry researchers, government regulators, venture capitalists, and pioneering drug researchers. Mathai Mammen, an HST graduate and the head of R&D at the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, was the keynote speaker.

Following a nationwide search for the most inventive undergraduate and graduate college students, the Lemelson-MIT Program has announced the winners of the 2020 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, which includes an HST graduate.

An ad hoc team of engineers, including an HST alumnus, developed a low-cost, open-source alternative to expensive ventilators

Alex K. Shalek, the Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Associate Professor of Chemistry, an HST faculty member, a core faculty member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), and extramural member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, has been named the recipient of the 2019-20 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award.