Cancer – MIT Spectrum

Heidi Williams of the MIT Department of Economics. Image: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (CC-BY)

MIT Economist: “Invisible Incentives” are Stifling Life-Saving Cancer Research

US Vice President Joseph Biden, Jr, (right) participated in the session 'Cancer Moonshot: A Call to Action' at the Annual Meeting 2016 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 19, 2016. Image: WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Moritz Hager (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

“Blowing Up Boundaries”: MIT Researchers on Biden’s Anti-Cancer Mission

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Commonwealth Foundation Gift Accelerates Collaborative Cancer Research

Fall 2015

A Bridge to Cancer Solutions

MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research teams up with Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.

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Big Data + Machine Learning = More Accurate Cancer Diagnosis

Spring 2015

Discovery Research Is Reinventing the World

“Without discovery research, without innovation, applied research can only go so far,” says Institute Professor Phillip Sharp.

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Giving Cells a Squeeze to Fight Disease

The Best of 2014

Sangeeta Bhatia’s research draws on biological and medical sciences, and engineering. Photo illustration: Len Rubenstein

Fall 2014

Sophisticated Medicine

Sangeeta Bhatia’s research defies tradition, drawing on biological and medical sciences, and multiple engineering disciplines.

Moungi G. Bawendi envisions uses for quantum dots as alternatives to fluorescent organic dyes and proteins for labeling, imaging, and monitoring biological systems and for better understanding and battling cancer. Photo: Len Rubenstein

Fall 2011

Smarter Quantum Dots