Business Wire

The Engine Appoints MIT Institute Professor Paula Hammond to Its Board of Directors

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, The Engine, the venture firm spun out of MIT that invests in early-stage Tough Tech companies solving the world’s most urgent problems, announced the ...
The Boston Globe

MIT’s vice president for equity and inclusion resigns after less than a year

Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s first-ever vice president for equity and inclusion announced his resignation on Friday, according to an internal message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth.
MIT Technology Review

Two new Institute Professors

Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, and Arup Chakraborty earn MIT’s highest faculty honor. Arup K. Chakraborty and Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, have been named Institute Professors, the highest honor for MIT ...
EurekAlert!

MGH and MIT form strategic partnership to address major challenges in clinical medicine

A novel partnership between Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is addressing three major challenges in clinical medicine – improving the diagnosis of ...
STAT

MIT’s Koch Institute wins STAT Madness with technology to see tiny ovarian tumors

In this year’s STAT Madness, a bracket-style competition to honor the best in recent biomedical research, each finalist exploited carbon nanotubes to tackle one of the two leading causes of death in ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard-MIT Institute Wins Patent Battle for Gene-Editing Tech

After over a year of disputes, the Broad Institute—a genetics research center affiliated with Harvard and MIT—won the right to keep its patent for CRISPR, a groundbreaking gene-editing technology, in ...