SES student Hammaad Adam’s novel data set ‘ORCHID’ can help increase the supply of organs for transplants, saving lives and improving health equity. For those in need of one, an organ transplant is a matter of life and death. Every year, the miraculous medical procedure gives thousands of people with...
Initiative for Combatting Systemic Racism
Richard Braatz to lead a new center for continuous mRNA manufacturing
A pilot-scale system, enabled by an $82 million award from the FDA, aims to accelerate the development and production of mRNA technologies. The engineering challenges will be tackled by researchers at MIT as well as collaborators at Penn State University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Healthcare / Medicine
Paper by CBI researchers helps define challenges with scaling of vaccine manufacturing
The team, led by CBI research scientist Donovan Guttieres published 'Models to inform neutralizing antibody therapy strategies during pandemics: the case of SARS-CoV-2' in the March 2021 volume of Antibody Therapeutics. This work was funded by the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and was previously featured in MIT news. Read the...
3 Questions: AI for Healthcare Equity
Regina Barzilay, Fotini Christia, and Collin Stultz describe how artificial intelligence and machine learning can support fairness, personalization, and inclusiveness in health care.
Modeling Framework to Evaluate Vaccine Strategies against the COVID-19 Pandemic
CBI's Biomanufacturing Group published "Modeling Framework to Evaluate Vaccine Strategies against the COVID-19 Pandemic" in the journal Systems as part of a special issue titled Systemic Thinking in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis. The paper provides a systems-level modeling framework to guide the development of analytical tools aimed at informing time-critical...