Alumni Innovation

TravlerPack Travels Back to Cambridge

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Many of the MIT alumni who created the TravlerPack sleeping bag for Syrian refugees, including Sloanie Vick Liu, SB ’20, will return to campus for a special in-person ceremony celebrating the Classes of 2020 and 2021.

May 17, 2022
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Alumni Entrepreneurship

A Bra for Heart Disease

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Bloomer Tech designed a washable bra that uses flexible and washable circuits to continuously read metrics like their ECG, respiration, heart rate, and more.

May 13, 2022
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Alumni Innovation

New Book Details History and Future of Kendall Square

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In a new book about the history of Kendall Square from the MIT Press, author Robert Buderi chronicles the area's biggest successes in innovation.

May 12, 2022
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Alumni Leadership

CIC Health CEO on Falling Into Your Next Thing

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Tim Rowe, MBA ’95, spoke at the iLead Speaker Series in late March about how Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) and CIC Health came to be.

Apr 19, 2022
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Action Learning Health Care

Analyzing distribution channels for pharmaceutical manufacturing startup

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Continuus Pharmaceuticals, a Massachusetts-based startup focused on making medicine affordable and accessible all over the world, turned to H-Lab for help developing an actionable distribution strategy for ICM-made pharmaceuticals.

Mar 11, 2022
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Action Learning Health Care

Decreasing time to diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in underrepresented populations

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As part of MIT Sloan's Healthcare Lab, Biogen engaged students to promote health equity in underrepresented populations.

Mar 1, 2022
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Press Source: Clinical Leader (Opinion Piece)

Fixing the patient data collection process to solve bias in precision me...

"A significant concern with every application of machine learning is fairness."

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Ideas Made to Matter Artificial Intelligence

Machine learning developers should talk to end users

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Machine learning tools only work if people use and trust them. To achieve this, developers and end users should have a back-and-forth conversation.

Jan 26, 2022
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Press Source: Project Syndicate (Opinion Piece)

Stop scapegoating care workers

"After a two-year pandemic ... there is an understandable desire to blame someone for the appalling death toll from COVID-19."

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