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Chemistry professor builds on nature to design new drugs and engineer better ways to deliver them. Scientists who want to treat disease by delivering large proteins such as antibodies or enzymes to cells have struggled to overcome one major bottleneck: getting the proteins to cross cell membranes so they can enter the target cells Read more

The 2018 annual poster session showcases recent work on biological effects of exposure to environmental agents. The session highlighted the work of the environmental health research communities of MIT and some of its peer institutions. We want to thank the participants for making this event such a great success!  To find out the poster winners from this event, please click here

Katharina Ribbeck studies the sticky substance to uncover its impacts on health and disease.

In 2007, Katharina Ribbeck spent a year as a visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School. While there, she heard about a fellowship offered at Harvard that would provide the recipient with a lab, startup funding, and status as an independent investigator. The catch? Applicants had to propose starting a new field of study Read more

A new protein may allow researchers to home in on individual neurons, determining their activity minute by minute.

When optogenetics burst onto the scene a little over a decade ago, it added a powerful tool to neuroscientists’ arsenal. Instead of merely correlating recorded brain activity with behaviors, researchers could control the cell types of their choosing to produce specific outcomes. Light-sensitive ion channels (opsins) inserted into the cells allow neuronal activity to be controlled by the flick of a switch… Read more

Human tissue samples linked by microfluidic channels replicate interactions of multiple organs.

MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs and detect possible side effects before the drugs are tested in humans. Using a microfluidic platform that connects engineered tissues from up to 10 organs, the researchers can accurately replicate human organ interactions for weeks at a time, allowing them to measure the effects of drugs on different parts of the body… Read more

The CEHS invites MIT faculty and research staff with Principal Investigator privileges to submit applications for funding of pilot projects related to basic and translational research in environmental health sciences.  Please see the attached flier for more information.

Funding will start on June 1, 2018. Please feel free to contact Sophea Chan Diaz if you have any further questions. Submission deadline is April 20, 2018.

Five early career researchers are the 2018 recipients of the NIEHS Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award (ONES).

The program supports innovative research on the relationship between exposure to environmental substances and human disease… Read more

A new study finds that many household goods degrade air quality more than once thought… Read more

TREX program from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering takes students to Hawaii to conduct environmental research… Read more

New finding suggests differences in how humans and bacteria control production of DNA’s building blocks… Read more