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Where will you be next year, Rachit? This fall, I’ll be starting my PhD in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) PhD program! I'm excited to stay connected to the amazing MIT community and the vibrant Boston life sciences ecosystem. HST

Who's up at the last BATS of Spring Term? Edwin Neumann (Blainey Lab & Jonathan Weissman's Lab): “Therapeutic Epigenome Editing in the Brain” Alex Hostetler (Irvine): “Driving Endogenous Anti-tumor Immunity with a ReNTAL CAR” ow.ly/2H0550VQ2G0 #prions #humantherapeutics

Daniel Antov, where will you be next year? "I will be pursing a PhD at John's Hopkins University for Biomedical Engineering." Johns Hopkins BME

A company called Senti Biosciences, founded by MIT Research Associate Tim Lu and @MITDeptofBE Prof James Collins, is giving immune cells the ability to distinguish between healthy and cancerous cells. The approach could lead to more potent cancer treatments. news.mit.edu/2025/equipping…

Sydney, where will you be next year? "Next year I will be working Moderna in the Technical Development rotational program!"

This afternoon in 6-120, the air is filled with love, admiration, and deep respect from faculty and alumni as we celebrate Prof. Alan (Al) Grodzinsky and his extraordinary career of mentoring and teaching. Thank you, Prof. Grodzinsky. 💚

(1/13) Thread on Matteo Mazzocca Domenic Narducci Simon Grosse-Holz Jessica Matthias new preprint Q: how does chromatin move? Using MINFLUX, SPT & SRLCI, we track chromatin dynamics across 7 orders of magnitude in time to provide some answers biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In a new Nature Biotechnology paper, a team of researchers, led by MIT Dept of BE Professor Christopher Voigt, has engineered bacteria to emit signals that can be detected up to 90 meters away. These bacteria could help farmers monitor their crops. news.mit.edu/2025/engineere…

Jesse Kroll, a professor in MIT CEE, and Angela Belcher, a professor in @MITDeptofBE, are the recipients of this year's Capers and Marion McDonald Award. 📸: Conor McArdle

Congratulations to Steven Troung ’20, who has been awarded a 2025 Knight-Hennessy Scholarship and will join the eighth cohort of the prestigious fellowship. Read more: news.mit.edu/2025/steven-tr…

Just in time for finals 🙇‍♂️: a bacterium designed to live in your gut and keep you performing well with little sleep. Rachel Hopton, Ph.D. Daniel Pascal Brandon Fields #microbiome #synbio #biotech #AirForce MIT Dept of BE Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Using a computational strategy that allows them to combine information from many large datasets, Fraenkel Lab have identified several new potential drug targets for Alzheimer’s disease. news.mit.edu/2025/scientist…

Tracking tiny changes in cells’ physical state is difficult to do at a large scale but Manalis Lab have found a way to measure cell density quickly and accurately — measuring up to 30,000 cells in a single hour. ow.ly/87hi50VVZqW

Jenna Houle, a double major in @MITDeptofBE and @MIT_DMSE, received the Henry Ford II Scholarship. The award honors an undergraduate who, at the end of his or her third year of study at MIT, has achieved the highest academic standing in the School. 📸: Conor McArdle

MIT BE / Course 20 Senior Dinner tonight!

Congratulations to Dr. Viraat Goel and Dr. Domenic Narducci, both new PhDs in Biological Engineering from the lab!

A study by Forest White Lab shows that a high-fat diet sets off metabolic dysfunction in cells that leads to weight gain, but that these effects can be reversed by treatment with an antioxidant. ow.ly/1GCo50W0Z9m Molecular Cell

Learn more about the Ribbeck Lab be.mit.edu/faculty/kathar…

We’re thrilled to welcome Eric Sun to the MIT Biological Engineering faculty. We can’t wait to see what’s ahead! @ericdsun #welcometoMIT

And now, for something completely different from MIT - academic couples getting PhDs in Biological Engineering together! Douglas A Lauffenburger and I co-advise Erin Tevonian - who married a fellow BE student and it is happy ever after....news.mit.edu/2025/scene-at-…