"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."
Initiative Drives Innovation in Health Care Solutions
The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS) is an Institute-wide strategic initiative supporting the convergence of world-class expertise across our community’s broad life sciences ecosystem, catalyzing discovery, innovation, and impact for human health. We combine our greatest strengths—faculty excellence, research infrastructure, and scientific capabilities—to achieve powerful results and forge new connections across MIT, industry, hospitals, and like-minded philanthropic visionaries.
The initiative is guided by MIT Provost Anantha Chandrakasan and faculty lead 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. 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 Spectrum: The Health and Life Sciences Issue
The spring issue of Spectrum magazine looks at how MIT is advancing the science of life and the future of care, with MIT HEALS as a unifying force.
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Read the Full Issue
MIT HEALS Brochure
Learn more about innovative collaborations at the convergence of multiple disciplines to impact human health.
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Download the Brochure
Fairbairn Menstruation Science Fund
Learn how to support MIT researchers who are accelerating the understanding and treatment of diseases more common in women and girls.
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Download the One-Pager
Pediatric Innovation
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].
Support MIT HEALS
Your philanthropic support can empower rising talent, accelerate breakthroughs, and translate discovery into impact.
To learn more about making your gift to MIT HEALS, connect with Elizabeth Crabtree, executive director, Development Planning and Initiatives, at [email protected] or 617.715.5798.
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- MIT and Mass General Brigham Launch Joint Seed Program to Accelerate Innovations in Health
- New Postdoctoral Fellowship Program to Accelerate Innovation in Health Care
- MIT Office of the President – Special Initiatives