In February, President Sally Kornbluth announced the appointment of Professor Angela Koehler as faculty director of the MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS), with professors Iain Cheeseman and Katharina Ribbeck as associate directors. Since then, the leadership team has moved quickly to shape HEALS into an ambitious, community-wide platform for catalyzing research, translation, and education at MIT and beyond ' at a moment when advances in computation, biology, and engineering are redefining what's possible in health and the life sciences. Rooted in MIT's long-standing strengths in foundational discovery, convergence, and translational science, HEALS is designed to foster connections across disciplines ' linking life scientists and engineers with clinicians, computational scientists, humanists, operations researchers, and designers. The initiative builds on a simple premise: that solving today's most pressing challenges in health and life sciences requires bold...
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