MIT McGovern Institute neuroscientists expand the CRISPR toolkit with a new, compact Cas7-11 enzyme, making it small enough to fit into a single viral vector for therapeutic applications.
MIT’s presidential search committee has formed and is ready to find the successor to President L. Rafael Reif, who announced plans to step down at the end of this year. The announcement was made by Diane Greene, chair of the MIT Corporation.
MIT professors Alberto Abadie, Regina Barzilay, Roman Bezrukavnikov, Michale Fee, Dina Katabi, Ronald Raines, and Rebecca Saxe have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2022.
MIT cognitive neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher received the 2022 National Academy of Sciences Award in the Neurosciences for her “pioneering research into the functional organization of the human brain.”