U.S. News names MIT the nation’s top university for 2026-2027. Congratulations, Engineers! tinyurl.com/3ha7yejm

What does fellowship support make possible? For @mit_hst PhD candidate and HEALS fellow Ginger Schmidt, it means the freedom to develop cutting-edge optical imaging tools to fight heart disease and pursue bold, boundary-crossing research. Read her story: bit.ly/4xjbh0W

I am very excited to share that our latest work on spatial lineage-tracing in the KP lung adenocarcinoma model has been published in @NatureGenet today! This is the latest work from my lab at @MITBiology @kochinstitute @MIT_IMES. Thread below👇

In a new Science Translational Medicine study by a team including MIT-Novo Nordisk Postdoc Seyed Majed Modaresi and Prof. James Collins from @MITdeptofBE, researchers used deep learning to identify promising new compounds against drug-resistant gonorrhea. wyss.harvard.edu/news/machin…

The visionary PhysioNet platform turns 25+--a system developed @MIT + @mit_hst in the 1970s. It has become one of the most comprehensive biomedical and clinical data repositories in existence! @MIT_IMES @MITEngineering Learn more bit.ly/44TCImr

Congrats to Emery N. Brown, who recently received @MIT 's highest faculty honor: Institute Professor! He is now one of 12, inc. @MIT_IMES founding dir. Arup Chakraborty. Congrats to our former co-director who is also a brilliant physician + neuroscientist! bit.ly/4wncLrs

Rachel Sava, a PhD student in @mit_hst, explores transformative improvements and dystopian risks of neural technology in her winning piece for the fourth annual Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize. news.mit.edu/2026/toward-fut…

.@MIT_IMES pioneers research and education at the intersection of engineering, science and medicine to transform human health for all. @mit_hst empowers future clinician-scientists. @MIT #CuriousityOnAMission

We are looking for a Senior Lecturer/Director of Education! Responsibilities inc. overseeing @mit_hst academic affairs, educational policy+curriculum development. Help educate the next generation of clinician-scientists! Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/care…

A new study published in @ScienceMagazine led by Alex Shalek, director of @MIT_IMES, shows how a key T cell protein called LAT keeps immune responses in balance. imes.mit.edu/news-events/sha…

It's incredible what we can learn when we use innovative tools to ask and answer direct, mechanistic questions about the human brain. 💫🧠💫 @zivwilliamslab, @yjkimnada and colleagues at @MassGeneralNews recorded wide-scale, single-neuron activity in humans having real-time conversations. ️ In individuals undergoing epilepsy monitoring, microelectrode arrays were used to pick up single-neuron activity and local field potentials across the frontotemporal cortex. Using natural language processing models, they showed that distinct neurons encode specific linguistic features—including parts of speech, grammatical relationships, phrase transitions, and sentence structure. Some neurons also tracked context, with their activity changing based on a word’s role within a sentence. 🗣 “Having identified these fundamental building blocks, we’ve set the table for us to begin answering some really interesting questions,” first author Jing Cai told @NIH, which provided funding for the study. 🏥 @MGHNeurosurg, @MGBneurosurgery, @MGHNeurology, @MGH_CNTR, @mit_hst, @PiN_Harvard This work was supported by @NIDCR_NIH, NINDS, NIMH, @AAUW, @BBRFoundation, and the @tbd_foundation, and @CIHR_IRSC.

We were pleased with the overwhelming response to the talk by Geoffrey Hinton (known as the godfather of AI) "Are we creating alien beings?" (@MIT_IMES )! The video is now available here: bit.ly/3S670PK To sign up for future lectures: bit.ly/3Sr8a8p

A team led by @MITChemE and @MIT_IMES Professor Daniel Anderson developed an implantable device that could offer long-term control of type 1 diabetes without the need for injections. news.mit.edu/2026/implantabl…

Yesterday, I graduated from @HarvardMed @MIT_HST, magna cum laude, and was awarded the Janee and Paul Friedmann Surgery Prize and James Tolbert Shipley Research Prize! I am extremely grateful to my mentors and loved ones for their support. Next stop, vascular surgery training!

TODAY: seminar at 3:30 pm in E25-117 by Dr. William Jacobs on "Immune-mediated Killing and Sterilization of Mycobacteria Tuberculosis" Learn more about research on global health crisis of tuberculosis! @EinsteinMed @MIT_IMES @mit_hst @MITMechE @MITEngineering @FluidsAndHealth

A team led by Leo Anthony Celi, a senior research scientist at @MIT_IMES, created a framework that they say can guide AI developers in designing systems that display curiosity and humility. news.mit.edu/2026/creating-h…

Science is Curiosity on a Mission: It includes all of us who ask "why" and make it our mission to find out. These are the discoveries that move the country forward. The pursuit of ideas that seemed impossible until they weren’t. #CuriosityOnAMission

We're thrilled that @geoffreyhinton will be delivering the @MIT_IMES Judith Richter Lecture! The "godfather of AI" will give a "brief and biased history of AI, in a talk called: "Are We Creating Alien Beings?" May 26, 3:30 pm, Building 32-123 @MITMechE @MITEngineering @MIT

Congrats to @AIHealthMIT PI Elazer @EdelmanLab for receiving the 2026-2027 Killian Award, @MIT's highest faculty honor! "He is a clinician of the highest order...a teacher of greatest passion...and an engineer whose work has reached around the globe." news.mit.edu/2026/elazer-ede…

🎉 🎊 Congratulations to our superstar @anurag_vaidya7 on successfully defending his PhD at @mit_hst! 🎓 During his PhD Anurag led an extraordinary body of work spanning multimodal outcome prediction (SurvPath, CVPR 2024), a landmark audit of demographic bias in computational pathology (Nature Medicine, 2024), and multiple foundation models that have pushed the field forward: MADELEINE (ECCV 2025), THREADS (Nature Cancer, 2026, to appear), and KRONOS. A unifying idea behind much of this work: biology is a powerful learning signal. It has been a privilege to advise @anurag_vaidya7 and to watch him grow into an independent scientist. Proud of all he has accomplished, and excited for what comes next.