MIT Dept of BE

Major new NIH investment in women’s health science arrives at MIT thetech.com/2026/03/19/nih… @LindaGGriffith1

Today at 4pm in 32-155. @MIT_alumni

After researchers in @MITDeptofBE and @MIT_IMES tasked an AI system with designing new molecules for potential antibiotics from scratch, the algorithms generated more than 29 million new molecules, unlike any that existed before — within a couple of days. fastcompany.com/91451161/mit-d…

BE Seminar Series continues this Thursday at 4pm with BE alum Jennifer L. Wilson @UCLAengineering "Turning Bugs Into Features - Modeling Drug Off-Target Effects to Understand Cancer Neurology” be.mit.edu/our-community/…

Who's up at BATS? Myra Dada (Manalis & Hemann): “Investigating Cell Stiffness as a Determinant of CAR T Efficacy in B-ALL” Connie Wang (Collins & Edelman): “Nanoengineering Materials to Probe Tissue-Implant Interactions” be.mit.edu/our-community/… #CARTtherapy #ramanspectroscopy

The Center for Gynepatholgy Research @MIT @MITdeptofBE is showing up with our totes to represent #Menstruation Science at the HHS Women's Health conference to usher in a new day!!! Taboo no more! @LindaGGriffith1

Help the MIT School of Engineering empower the next generation of thinkers and doers by contributing today, during the MIT 24-Hour Challenge. mit24hourchallenge.mightycause.com/story/School-O…

BE Seminar tomorrow at 4pm with Dan Dongeun Huh @pennbioeng “Microengineered Mimicry of Human Health and Disease" be.mit.edu/our-community/…

Who's up at BATS? Miles George (VOIGT & NILES): “Containment of Engineered Bacteria by ‘Locking’ them to an Engineered Plant” Justine Shih (BLAINEY): “Mapping Genetic Variants to Cellular Phenotypes with Targeted Optical Endogenous Sequencing (TOES)” ow.ly/ksWq50Yn1MZ

Who's up at BATS? Evan Collins (Langer & Anderson Labs): “Data-Driven Approaches for Understanding and Improving mRNA Lipid Nanoparticles” Nikita Podobedov (Blainey Lab): “Integration of Label-Free Imaging Modalities with Optical Pooled Screening” be.mit.edu/our-community/…

Come on join us! We are searching for the next technical associate to join our lab ~Summer 2026. This could be a great position for someone who is graduating this spring and is looking for 2 more years of research experience before starting their PhD: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie…

Who's up at BATS? Anastasiya Grebin (Ribbeck Lab): “Mucus as a Host Lever in Recurrent Bacterial Vaginosis” be.mit.edu/our-community/… #bacterialvaginosis #Cervicovaginalmucus #Host–microbeinteractions

Katie Spivakovsky, a senior in @MITDeptofBE, has been selected as a 2026-27 Churchill Scholar and will undertake an MPhil in biological sciences at the Wellcome Sanger Institute at Cambridge University in the U.K. this fall. news.mit.edu/2026/katie-spi…

We are launching an endometriosis drug development center as part of our Menstruation Science Initiative. We are hiring a full time Comms/Events manager to help us engage with the public, patients and scientific community. Rewarding work! careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie…

"I came to college, two duffel bags, showed up at Kendall Square being like, I'm gonna make computer games…" Hear how Ragon's Bryan Bryson found his way from game design dreams to immunology research—and why understanding how immune cells fight pathogens became his life's work.

Who's up at BATS? Victoria Chen (Voigt Lab): “Tracking Recombinant Genes in Estonia 35 Years After Release” Rachel Myers (Belcher & Hammond Labs): “Engineering Rare Earth Nanoparticles for Early Ovarian Cancer Detection” be.mit.edu/our-community/…

This afternoon, @DALauffenburger opened the BE Seminar Series Spring Term 2026 by sharing the history of MIT BE.

New tissue models could help researchers develop drugs for liver disease | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology — major breakthroughs, tremendously valuable for preclinical studies of pathophysiology mechanisms. news.mit.edu/2026/new-tissu…

.@LindaGGriffith1 Lab created a mini “liver-on-a-chip.” Tiny clusters of liver cells (shown in magenta) are embedded within a network of blood vessels (green). The vessels can carry fluid (blue), allowing scientists to study how liver disease develops. ow.ly/cSP850Y92bv

Congratulations to MIT senior Katie Spivakovsky, who has been selected as a 2026-27 Churchill Scholar and will undertake an MPhil in biological sciences at Cambridge University this fall! Read more: news.mit.edu/2026/katie-spi…