What Can We Learn From Related Industries?
What Can We Learn From Related Industries?
08/12/2004 3:15PM Wong AuditoriumScott Sarazen, Senior Vice President, Life Sciences, MassDevelopment; Andrew Parece, Vice President, Analysis Group/Economics Analysis Group, Inc; Tamsin S. Randlett, Senior Director, Government Affairs, Gap Inc. ; Stephen M. Sammut, ...
Understanding Chemotherapeutic Drug Targets
Understanding Chemotherapeutic Drug Targets
Dr. Nozomi Ando conducts research on a protein that is essential for DNA synthesis, repair and replication. She explains how this protein is in equilibrium between an active and an inactive form, and how discovering strategies to lock the protein in the inactive ...
Treating Diseases by Using RNAi Technology
Treating Diseases by Using RNAi Technology
RNA interference (RNAi) is a process in which small pieces of silencing RNA (siRNA) bind to cellular RNA, thereby shutting down the production of the encoded protein.
Ting Shih: ClickHealth & ClickDiagnostics
Ting Shih: ClickHealth & ClickDiagnostics
Ting Shih SM '09 participated in the MIT Paul and Priscilla Gray Value-Added Internship program. Ting traveled to Botswana to implement the ClickDiagnostics telemedicine system she co-founded. The system connects community health workers to remote medical specialists ...
The Power of Basic Science Applied to Medical Progress: ...
The Power of Basic Science Applied to Medical Progress: Past Examples and ...
10/22/2009 4:00 PM 26"100Ed Scolnick, Director, Psychiatric Disease Program and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad InstituteDescription: An exemplar of the purpose"driven life in medical science, Ed Scolnick details research milestones from a ...
The Invention of Optical Coherence Tomography
The Invention of Optical Coherence Tomography
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) uses light to enable real-time visualization of tissue microstructure and pathology.
The Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project
02/16/2001 10"250Eric S. Lander, Professor of Biology ; Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Member, Whitehead InstituteDescription: Dr. Lander is a geneticist, molecular biologist and a mathematician, with research interests in human genetics, mouse genetics, population ...
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
The Doctor Is In - KI Special Series November 2011 - Non-Small Cell Lung ...
"The Doctor is IN" is a monthly seminar series at the Koch Institute at MIT. The goal of this seminar is to discuss the clinical management of different cancer types.
The Doctor Is In: Targeted Therapies in Non-Small Cell Lung ...
The Doctor Is In - KI Special Series December 2011 - Targeted Therapies in ...
From December 2011: "Targeted Therapies in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer"
Targeting Ulcer-Causing H. Pylori Bacteria
Targeting Ulcer-Causing H. Pylori Bacteria
Dr. Sarah Bowman studies a protein from a pathogenic bacterium that is found in the stomach and is known to cause ulcers. She explains how the bacterium survives in the low pH environment of the stomach by using a nickel-dependent protein to buffer the acidity of its ...
Stopping a leak the way blood does
Stopping a leak the way blood does
Harnessing the principle that allows blood to clot, MIT researchers are working on new synthetic materials to plug holes.
Stem cells, reprogramming and personalized medicine: ...
Stem cells, reprogramming and personalized medicine: promise, problems, ...
09/28/2010 2:30 PM 10"250Rudolf Jaenisch, Professor of Biology, MIT Founding Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical ResearchDescription: After years of relentless lab work, rising and falling expectations, and the challenge of a sometimes hostile public, Rudolf ...
SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Understanding the Path to ...
SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Understanding the Path to Personalized Cancer Care
This with/in/sight program on Nov. 7, 2012, featured three experts exploring the future of cancer diagnostics and treatments that are personalized to the unique attributes of each patient and their cancer: Nikhil Munshi, multiple myeloma physician at Dana-Farber Cancer ...
Improving ultrasound imaging
Sharper ultrasound images could improve diagnostics
A new system for ultrasound imaging developed at MIT allows precise measurements and tracking of disease progression.
Robert Langer on biomaterials for the 21st century
Robert Langer on biomaterials for the 21st century
Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor, discusses his research in material science and biomaterials at TEDxBigApple.
RLE Profile: James G. Fujimoto
RLE Investigator Profile Video Series: James G. Fujimoto
Professor James G. Fujimoto of MIT discusses research and education in his group, and the intellectual challenges facing engineers at the frontiers of optics and biomedical imaging.
Research & Policy Design: Part V - The First J-PAL Bihar ...
Research & Policy Design: Part V - The First J-PAL Bihar Development ...
Research and Policy Design: The First J-PAL Bihar Development Conference Session II: Deworming. In Part V, Karthik Muralidharan (Assistant Professor of Economics, UC San Diego) speaks on the topic of randomized control trials and impact evaluation in the very succesful ...