"Our goal with MIT HEALS is to help inspire, accelerate, and deliver solutions, at scale, to some of society’s most urgent and intractable health challenges."

Sally Kornbluth
MIT President

Initiative Drives Innovation in Health Care Solutions

The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS) supports the convergence of world-class expertise across MIT to catalyze discovery, innovation, and impact for human health. Drawing on the Institute’s strengths in life sciences and other fields, our leading experts will form new, cross-disciplinary ventures—and build on existing successes—that connect MIT to industry leaders in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and hospitals. MIT HEALS will pursue ambitious goals in AI and life sciences, low-cost diagnostics, neuroscience and mental health, environmental life science, food and agriculture, the future of public health and health care, and women’s health.

MIT HEALS is led by Anantha P. Chandrakasan, dean of MIT’s School of Engineering, MIT’s Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer, and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The faculty lead is Angela Koehler, professor of biological engineering, associate director at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and an Institute Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. A founder of multiple biotech companies, including Ligon Discovery, Kronos Bio, 76Bio, and Samori Bio, she has firsthand knowledge of how to transform scientific discoveries into potential therapeutics.

Associate directors are Iain Cheeseman, member of the Whitehead Institute and the Herman and Margaret Sokol Professor of Biology, and Katharina Ribbeck, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Biological Engineering.

MIT HEALS One-Pager

Learn more about innovative collaborations at the convergence of multiple disciplines to impact human health.
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MIT News Story on Launch

The MIT HEALS launch explored MIT’s historical impact in the life sciences and offered a preview of what the Institute hopes to accomplish in the future.
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Videos From the Launch Event

Faculty members from departments across MIT shared their work during panels that focused on the biosphere, brains, health care, immunology, entrepreneurship, AI, translation, and collaboration.
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Students and faculty interested in programmatic information on MIT HEALS should visit heals.mit.edu or email [email protected].

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Your philanthropic support will help us achieve the promise of MIT HEALS to accelerate positive health and life sciences outcomes.

To learn more about supporting MIT HEALS, contact Elizabeth Crabtree, executive director, Development Planning and Initiatives, at [email protected] or 617.715.5798.

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