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The Sierra Leone Prosthetics & Orthotics Program

We've designed a health system strengthening model  to support and expand the prosthetic and orthotic sector that cares for people wit…
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The Sound of Healing: An MIT Media Lab Instrument Helps Stroke Patients Recover Through Music

MIT Media Lab's Alexandra Rieger created the Chord, an AI-powered instrument that helps stroke patients recover through music and movement.
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Gastronomy and Beyond

Our mission is to expand horizons, foster creativity, and explore a myriad of concepts. Gastronomy and Beyond is a collaboration betwe…
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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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WHx

WHx Program: Unlocking women's health through transformative technologies
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WHx joins MIT HEALS

WHx joins MIT HEALS to advance women’s health through bold research, innovation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration at MIT.
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Blueprint to Close the Women’s Health Gap: How to Improve Lives and Economies for All

World Economic Forum. (2025, January). Blueprint to close the women’s health gap: How to improve lives and economies for all.
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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WHx Builds Momentum in Women’s Health Innovation

MIT WHx builds momentum in women’s health innovation through HEALS grants, UN visibility, and Bloomberg insights on AI and diagnostics.
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MIT Media Lab Working to Advance Women's Health

Jessica Rosenworcel explains how MIT Media Lab and WHx use AI, sensors, and wearables to advance women’s health care.
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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International Women’s Day 2026: Advancing Women’s Health

International Women’s Day: MIT Media Lab’s WHx program explores how technology and research can improve women’s health worldwide.
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Autonomous and Surgery-free Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)

What if clinicians could place tiny electronic chips inside the brain without the need for any surgery but with a simple injection in the a…
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‘AIDS amnesia’ is putting women’s lives at risk

Dr. Susan Blumenthal calls for increased funding and education to combat the mistaken belief that HIV is no longer a major health threat.
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BBC documentary features Circulatronics: the autonomous and surgery-free BCI

Prof. Sarkar explains Circulatronics in BBC interview with Chris McCausland
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Professor Deblina Sarkar discusses research breakthrough that could reinvent treatment for brain disease

Deblina Sarkar talks to CNN News18 about her recent research on "circulatronics."
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Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing

Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing
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New therapeutic brain implants defy the need for surgery

MIT researchers developed microscopic wireless devices that travel through the bloodstream to deliver targeted brain stimulation.
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Injectable antenna could safely power deep-tissue medical implants

The technology would allow battery-free, minimally invasive, scalable bioelectronic implants.
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Limb & Life: A research collective to support rehabilitation services in Gaza, Palestine

Limb & Life is a collective of researchers dedicated to describing pressing challenges in rehabilitation services, especially in prosth…
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Sleep and Wellbeing

By establishing correlations between sleep parameters and wellbeing indicators, our project hopes to further understanding of fluctuations …
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Radical treatment for pain and neurodegenerative diseases

Radical treatment for pain and neurodegenerative diseases
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Conformable Phased Array Ultrasound Patch For Bladder Volume Monitoring (CUSB-Patch)

Ultrasound can be used to image soft tissues in vivo for early diagnosis and monitoring of disease progression. However, conventional ultra…
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MDAgents: Adaptive Collaboration Strategy for LLMs in Medical Decision Making

Foundation models have become invaluable in advancing the medical field. Despite their promise, the strategic deployment of LLMs for effect…
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Technology for Women’s Health

Technology for Women’s Health
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MIT team Awarded MIT Portugal Grant for Sustainable Textile Innovation

Svetlana Boriskina, Ikra Shuvo, Duo Xu, Xianglin Ji, and Raul Fangueiro win MIT Portugal grant for sustainable textile research.
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BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…
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Lensing: Cardiolinguistics for Atypical Angina

Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people romanti…
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parkinsAI

Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons.  parkinsAI models drug response a…
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Conformable Ultrasound Breast Patch (cUSBr-Patch) for Deep Tissue Scanning and Imaging

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
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Lara Ozkan named 2025 Marshall Scholar

The MIT senior and undergraduate researcher in the Conformable Decoders group will pursue graduate studies in the UK.
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Alexandra Rieger: Innovating Omnisensory Medicine at MIT & Harvard

PhD student Alexandra Rieger discusses her research combining music, engineering, neuroscience, and design.
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Theme | Health + Wellness

An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
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Canan Dagdeviren is named as the Falling Walls Foundation's Global Call Winner

She was selected for her work on breast cancer detection in the Engineering + Technology category.
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Dare to Dream: An Ultrasound Bra For Breast Health with Dr. Canan Dagdeviren

Canan Dagdeviren talks to Sharon Kedar about the latest generation of the wearable ultrasound scanner Conformable Decoders is developing.
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SNAPSHOT Study

The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
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Sleep Deficiency Is Associated with Higher Next-Day Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure Risk

B. Zhang, W. V. Chen, G. Regalia, D. M. Goldenholz, and R. W. Picard, “Sleep deficiency is associated with higher next-day generalized tonic-clonic seizure risk”, in American Epilepsy Society 2023 Annual Meeting, 2023.
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First 100 days of pandemic; an interplay of pharmaceutical, behavioral and digital interventions - A study using agent based modeling

The challenge of understanding pandemics, illustrated by the recent COVID-19 outbreak, has significantly impacted global health and economi…
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Doctors have more difficulty diagnosing disease when looking at images of darker skin

In a study published in Nature Medicine, alum Matt Groh, Prof. Rosalind Picard, and colleagues found assistance from an AI model can help.
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Deep learning-aided decision support for diagnosis of skin disease across skin tones

Groh, M., Badri, O., Daneshjou, R. et al. Deep learning-aided decision support for diagnosis of skin disease across skin tones. Nat Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02728-3
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Diagnosing Diagnosis in Dermatology

Addressing Bias in Physician-Machine PartnershipsThis research program addresses how AI assistance can enhance physician decision-making on…
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New portable breast cancer scanner can fit in a bra

To help combat "interval" cancers, the Conformable Decoders group led by Prof. Dagdeviren, has developed a wearable ultrasound scanner.
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BBC 100 Women 2023: Canan Dagdeviren

Professor Dagdeviren was recognized for her work developing a wearable ultrasound patch for early breast cancer detection.
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A new ultrasound patch can measure how full your bladder is

The wearable device, designed to monitor bladder and kidney health, could be adapted for earlier diagnosis of cancers deep within the body.
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Prioritizing Early Disease Intervention

Caicedo, H.H., Darrow, J.J., Caicedo, J.C. et al. Prioritizing Early Disease Intervention. Ther Innov Regul Sci 57, 1148–1152 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43441-023-00569-3
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Strengthening Community Data Engagement in Humanitarian Health Crisis: A reflection from Sierra Leone

In a post for the MIT Governance Lab, Media Lab grad student Leonard Francis Vibbi discusses his recent work in Sierra Leone.
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A wearable ultrasound scanner could detect breast cancer earlier

The new device, which can be incorporated into a bra, could allow more frequent monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer.
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Decoders 2.0: Microfabricated Decoders

StyleFlexible; Individual projects (teamwork can also be possible upon the wish of students).To pass, you must: (i) attend at least 3/…
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The six dimensions of caring for patients with disabilities: a journey from the US to Sierra Leone

The journey to equitable access to bionic technology in Sierra Leone.
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Francesca Riccio-Ackerman Works to Improve Access to Prosthetics

PhD student is designing and building a sustainable care and delivery model in Sierra Leone
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MIT spinoffs listed among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies 2023

Media Lab spinoff Sourcemap and MIT spinoff Overjet have been listed among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023.
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Media Lab spinoff Empatica receives new FDA clearance for its Health Monitoring Platform and announces Series B financing

Co-founded by Professor Rosalind Picard, Empatica develops medical-grade wearables and algorithms for health monitoring and diagnostics.
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Technology-Enabled Mobile Phone Screenings Augment Routine Primary Care

We have developed a new process to screen patients at the point-of-care with FDA-approved technology-enabled mobile health screenings (TES)…
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Research Area | Rapid Fabrication and Integration of Medical Devices and Technologies

Dr. Shah and his research lab at MIT has significant expertise and motivation to bring problems from the clinic and society into the labora…
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Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optical …
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New Study Highlights Opportunities for Artificial Emotional Intelligence

MIT uses affective computing in efforts to improve human mental health.