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David S. Kong

Director, Community Biotechnology Initiative; Research Scientist
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Labbers awarded 2024 Education Innovation Grants

Four out of eleven selected research projects were from the Media Lab community.
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Watch David S. Kong on the Epic Human Podcast

Catch David S. Kong on Joe Blair's Epic Human Podcast, as he discusses his mission to empower communities through biotechnology.
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A global lab for teaching and practicing synthetic biology

A pandemic-fueled transformation of the MIT course "How to Grow (Almost) Anything" leads to next steps in democratizing synthetic biology
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Wiring WIC, a virtual symposium presented by the WIC Health and Technology Initiative, co-hosted by the MIT Media Lab

​On May 23, 2022, Wiring WIC, a virtual symposium hosted by the WIC Health and Technology Initiative—a project of New America in collaborat…
June 1, 2022
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The Synthetic Biology Community Builder

David Sun Kong speaks with NEO.LIFE about science, activism, and how biotechnology can empower ordinary people.
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Life Sciences Supermind Report outlines proposed solutions to re-imagine the global health ecosystem

Collective intelligence methodology identifies key findings to accelerate the pace of innovation and build health resilience.
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Reimagining public health infrastructure in the 21st century

A new multidisciplinary field of public health technology should be established to modernize the nation’s health system.
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Democratizing Synthetic Biology @ The Media Lab

City Science researcher Andres Rico reflects on his time participating in this past year's "How To Grow (Almost) Anything" (HTGAA) class.
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Recordings: Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Part of a collaboration between the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma
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Comprehensive report on pandemic response solutions developed by 180 leading experts

Online platform harnesses collective intelligence to accelerate recovery from Covid-19 and prepare for future disease outbreaks.
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Lessons Learned on the Road to Pandemic Preparedness | Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.
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Innovative face masks and medical-grade gowns to combat Covid-19 and future pandemics

Three most promising PPE solutions selected by expert judges on MIT Pandemic Response CoLab.
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Big Picture Session | The World we Build: Equitable Technology

This session features four conversations between Media Lab researchers and guest speakers on expanding more equitable research.
Oct. 30, 2020
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Responsible Data in the Time of Pandemic: GAEN-based Contact Tracing and Challenges

Thursday August 20, 2020 …
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Responsible Data Summit: GAEN-based Contact Tracing and Challenges

These sessions will focus on tools for privacy-aware contact tracing.
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Fluid Interfaces researchers and David Kong win Best Paper Award at Augmented Humans International Conference

Congratulations to Pat Pataranutaporn, Angela Vujic, David Kong, Pattie Maes, and Misha Sra!
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Building a Bridge for Learning | Jaylen Brown + David Kong @ TEDxBeaconStreet

Director's fellow Jaylen Brown and Labber David Kong on Jaylen's educational journey and their new learning and leadership initiative.
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IAP 2020

The 2020 MIT Independent Activities Period (IAP) runs from January 6–January 31.
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Opinion | The fast-evolving ethical conundrums of biotechnology

Our capacity to re-engineer the biological world raises questions that need answers before it gets too late
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Episode 85: Innovation at the Edge

David Sun Kong discusses the mission of the Community Biotechnology Initiative on the Mass Cultural Council’s podcast.
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Building with Bio in “How to Grow (Almost) Anything”

The class introduced students from all backgrounds to the emerging areas of biodesign, biotechnology, and synthetic biology.
June 21, 2019
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The best quotes from Jaylen Brown's appearance at MIT Media Lab

Jaylen Brown's “passions” for justice and education have molded him into a fearless leader.
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MLTalks: Hoops, Tech, and Justice

At 21, Jaylen Brown is a polymath and a rising star in the NBA with the Boston Celtics.
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Biotech breakthroughs and big ideas in 2018

Innovations are looming in food, medicine, brain-machine interfaces, sex, sleep, and do-it-yourself biology. That’s the picture we got from…
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Making the body sing

A strange song, full of pumping percussion and instrumentals with random patterns, began to erupt from the speakers.David Sun Kong ’01…
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Live from HUBweek 2017

Julie Kramer interviewed several participants at HUBweek 2017, including Community Biotechnology head David Sun Kong.
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Scientists Made Music From the Human Microbiome, and It’s Seriously Cool

There are many mysteries of human biology. Among those perhaps least considered, what do our bodies sound like?This was the question on the…
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David Kong at SB7.0

David Kong at the 7th International Meeting on Synthetic Biology
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Microfluidics for the masses

New open-source website features blueprints for lab-on-a-chip devices.