Inventor creates tiny technologies for medicine; awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
Sangeeta Bhatia combines clinical and engineering perspectives to tackle complex health challenges.
Sangeeta Bhatia combines clinical and engineering perspectives to tackle complex health challenges.
Coated tissue scaffolds help the body grow new bone to repair injuries or congenital defects.
Proposal could divert a dangerous waste stream while producing low-cost photovoltaics.
Researchers improve therapeutic response in clinically relevant model of lung-tumor growth.
New gene-editing technique allows scientists to more rapidly study the role of mutations in tumor development.
New technique sustains virus in liver cells, allowing study of immune response and drug treatments.
Nanoscale, biodegradable drug-delivery method could provide a year or more of steady doses.
Studies by graduate students Stephen Morton and Nisarg Shah show progress toward better cancer treatment and bone replacement.
Institute Professor cited as "a founder of the field of tissue engineering."
Engineering tiny paths to cancer treatment, bone regrowth, and wound healing, Paula Hammond serves as an exemplary researcher-educator within the MIT community.
RNA carried by new nanoparticles can silence genes in many organs, could be deployed to treat cancer.
Nanoparticles that stagger delivery of two drugs knock out aggressive tumors in mice.
Test analyzing cells’ ability to fix different kinds of broken DNA could help doctors predict cancer risk.