Emery Brown, Douglas Lauffenburger, and Daniel Hastings have been awarded MIT’s highest faculty honor: the title of Institute Professor.

For the first time, MIT researchers measured the dynamics of chromatin movement over an extended period of time, ranging from the scale of microseconds to hours. The findings offer insight into how gene expression is regulated, as well as how chromatin segments come together for other processes such as DNA repair.

MIT HEALS SuperUROP Scholar Janina Ojeiduma '27 researches the impact of environmental toxins on human health

A builder and problem solver at heart, she is developing technologies to understand and engineer the roles of cell-surface sugars, called glycans, in the immune system.

MIT engineers designed a type of tissue model that more accurately mimics the architecture of the liver, including blood vessels and immune cells, and could help researchers develop drugs for liver disease.

Eighteen MIT professors were selected as “Committed to Caring” for 2025-27. These advisors encourage their students, advocate for meaningful research, and participate in their educational journey from the beginning to end.

Cancer immunotherapy benefits from antibody-lectin chimeras that block glyco-immune checkpoints.

A shot in the arm for science...