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Deblina Sarkar

Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; AT&T Career Development Professor
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek group's wearables for cells technology featured on Nature Comms Chemistry homepage

Nature Communications Chemistry has featured NCB's Wearables for Cells technology
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“Wearable” devices for cells

These devices could help scientists probe subcellular regions of the brain, and might even help restore some brain function.
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NanoBio Seminar Series Fall'24

Please join us for an exciting journey in recent advances in nanotechnology and bioengineering.
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Mohammad Tariqul Islam receives MIT-Novo Nordisk Artificial Intelligence Postdoctoral Fellowship

Artificial intelligence (AI) is at the heart of NCB’s research, which fuses AI with life sciences.
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Nanotech and Bioelectronics: We Have to Pay Attention to This

Prof. Deblina Sarkar's groundbreaking research is recognized by Forbes magazine
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Hao-Tung Yang wins the T.S. Lin Fellowship Award

Hao-Tung's goal is to advance non-invasive treatments for brain diseases.
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Baju Joy receives Whitaker Health Sciences Fellowship Award for second consecutive academic year

Baju is at the forefront of developing subcellular-sized magnetic devices designed to wirelessly modulate and monitor biological systems.
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Kyuho Jang is awarded the MIT Presidential Award

A PhD candidate in Prof. Deblina Sarkar's Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek research group, Kyuho is recognized for his exceptional work
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Connected Mind + Body: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies

Imagine what cutting-edge technologies can achieve in transforming women's health + wellbeing.Every day at the MIT Media Lab, we harne…
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Prof. Deblina Sarkar receives ChadTough New Investigator Award

With the ChadTough New Investigator Award, Prof. Deblina Sarkar and her NCB team will continue to push boundaries in cancer research
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Imaging method reveals new cells and structures in human brain tissue

The new imaging method is based on expansion microscopy, which was developed in Professor Ed Boyden’s lab in 2015.
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Prof. Deblina Sarkar receives prestigious NSF CAREER Award

NSF's Career Awards support early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.
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Propelling atomically layered magnets toward green computers

MIT scientists address issues to bringing 2D magnetic materials into practical use, setting the stage for more energy-efficient computers
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Deblina Sarkar receives Nanomaterials Young Investigator Award

Deblina Sarkar is one of three researchers worldwide to receive the Nanomaterials Young Investigator Award for 2023
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Researchers harness 2D magnetic materials for energy-efficient computing

The researchers precisely controlled an ultrathin magnet at room temperature, which could enable faster processors and computer memories.
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Deblina Sarkar receives Nano Research Young Innovators Award

Professor Deblina Sarkar receives a Nano Research Young Innovators Award in Bio-inspired Nanomaterials for 2023.
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Deblina Sarkar named MIT-Royalty Pharma Faculty Founder Innovation Fellow 2023-24

The MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition aims to support female faculty entrepreneurs in biotechnology.
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Deblina Sarkar wins The Sontag Foundation's Distinguished Scientist Award

Professor Deblina Sarkar has been awarded The Sontag Foundation’s Distinguished Scientist Award—one of three winners nationwide this year.
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Prof. Deblina Sarkar Named as MRS Early Career Distinguished Presenter

Prof. Sarkar one of only two researchers worldwide to be named “MRS Early Career Distinguished Presenter” by the Materials Research Society.
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Research Group Overview: Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis.
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Deblina Sarkar and Shivam Kajale of MIT awarded Designing for Sustainability Funding with HPI Collaborators

Prof. Deblina Sarkar and PhD student Shivam Kajale of the MIT Media Lab awarded Designing for Sustainability Funding with HPI collaborators.
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Marta Airaghi of Nano Cybernetic Biotrek awarded the Novartis Innovation Fellowship

Airaghi is one of the few people worldwide selected for this honor through a highly competitive process.
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Sarah Cao of Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek wins the Outstanding UROP Student Award

Sarah joined Prof. Sarkar’s research group in September 2022 through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.
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Benoit Desbiolles of Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek receives the MIT Excellence Award

Benoit Desbiolles, a postdoctoral associate at the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek (NCB) research group, has won a 2023 MIT Excellence Award.
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Deblina Sarkar delivered a TEDx talk about transcending humans beyond biological limitations

Deblina Sarkar is building tiny nanoelectronic devices that could constantly monitor our bodies, fixing any anomalies they find.
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Deblina Sarkar is among the seven scientists featured by MIND Prize in Nature Neuroscience

The seven scientists who recently received the inaugural 2023 MIND Prize appeared on the inside cover of the May edition of Nature&nbs…
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Deblina Sarkar named to the 2023 SN 10: Scientists to Watch list by Science News

Sarkar among the 2023 SN 10: Scientists to Watch, early and mid-career scientists who are making extraordinary contributions to their field.
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Biohybrid robots: recent progress, challenges, and perspectives

In a new paper, the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek group presents progress in the field of biohybrid robotics + steps to autonomous living machines
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Deblina Sarkar receives 2023 MIND Prize

Congratulations to Professor Deblina Sarkar on being selected for a 2023 Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery (MIND) Prize.
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IEEE New Frontiers in Biotechnology Webinar Series

Professor Deblina Sarkar is the lead organizer and host of a new webinar series titled “IEEE New Frontiers in Biotechnology."
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The Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek group's Cell Rover technology featured on the NAE's Frontiers of Engineering homepage

The National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering program has featured Cell Rover, a miniaturized, magnetostrictive anten…
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Deblina Sarkar featured in the Association for Women in Science spotlight

Deblina Sarkar was selected for the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Spotlight. The following interview excerpt is posted on the AWIS
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Tiny ‘Rover’ explores cells without harming them

Professor Deblina Sarkar discusses a miniature antenna that can transmit data from inside cells without using damaging microwaves.
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek Research Group Receives the NIH BRAIN Initiative Grant

This grant supports new concepts and early-stage research for unique and innovative technologies for recording or modulation of the brain.
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Deblina Sarkar awarded the Perfect and Rarely Achieved Impact Score by National Institute of Health

The National Institute of Health (NIH) has awarded the perfect and rarely achieved impact score to Prof. Deblina Sarkar for her NIH Directo…
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Deblina Sarkar receives the NIH Director's New Innovator Award

She is being recognized by the NIH for unusually innovative work in the development of biomedical implants that defy the need for surgery.
Article Research

Cell Rover: Exploring and augmenting the inner world of the cell

MIT researchers describe an intracellular antenna that's compatible with 3D biological systems + can operate wirelessly inside a living cell
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Microscopy technique reveals hidden nanostructures in cells and tissues

Separating densely packed molecules before imaging allows them to become visible for the first time.
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Deblina Sarkar recognized as an Innovative Early Career Engineer by National Academy of Engineering

National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has recognized Deblina Sarkar, assistant professor at MIT and AT&T Career Development Chair Profe…
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MIT AI Hardware Program features NCB research on 2D neuromorphic devices for sustainable Artificial Intelligence

MIT AI Hardware program has featured Nano Cybernetic Biotrek’s (NCB’s) research on energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable hardwar…
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Deblina Sarkar awarded the 2022 IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) Early Career Award in Nanotechnology

This award recognizes individuals who have made contributions with major impact on the field of nanotechnology.
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Deblina Sarkar's research featured in IEEE Electron Device Society's newsletter

IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) highlighted the research journey of Deblina Sarkar, an assistant professor at MIT and AT&T Career De…
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Deblina Sarkar recognized as a leading next generation scientist by United For Medical Research

Deblina Sarkar is recognized as one of the eight scientists leading next generation research by United For Medical Research.
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Deblina Sarkar Receives iCANX Young Scientist Award

iCANX is a global innovation center aiming to disseminate cutting-edge technological innovation, and tap and train top innovative talents.
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Deblina Sarkar shares her research journey in an interview with Neuron

 In an interview with Neuron, physicist and electrical engineer by training, Deblina Sarkar shares how her passion for the b…
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Deblina Sarkar receives the Microsystems & Nanoengineering Young Scientist Excellence Award

Deblina Sarkar, assistant professor at MIT and AT&T Career Development Chair Professor at the MIT Media Lab, received the Young Sc…
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Deblina Sarkar receives the R00 Award from National Institute of Health

The highly prestigious R00 award is from the National Institute of General Medical Science (NIGMS) of the National Institute of Health.
Article Research

Biomolecular turn-ons

Transistors can make good biosensors. The usual approach is to functionalize the gate oxide of a field-effect transistor with receptors for…
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Flat transistor defies the limit

The finding opens up avenues to the development of integrated circuits that have extremely low power consumption.
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Deblina Sarkar joins the MIT Media Lab faculty

New research group aims to bridge the gap between nanotechnology and synthetic biology.