August 28-30, 2020, MIT will host 'India: Turning the Tide,' the seventh in a series of MIT-led hackathons designed to create solutions to address critical needs during the COVID-19 crisis.
“Getting people back to work safely is imperative,” says Prof. Pentland. “Certifying immunity in a way that preserves personal privacy is the first step toward helping people stay safe and healthy."
The work has implications for early detection of all types of cancer, and answering questions about other diseases.
A group of faculty from the MIT Sloan School of Management, working with students in various graduate programs at MIT, has undertaken a wide range of projects to respond to COVID.
The research team provided one proof-of-concept application: accurate detection of early-stage lung cancer.
A new large-scale review, conducted by MIT Sloan Professor Jackson Lu, is the first to systematically examine the psychological, economic, and social effects of air pollution.
Obesity rates, poverty rates, and pollution may not correlate with COVID-19 deaths after all. But public transportation does.
New research reveals the true scope of COVID-19’s global spread. But don’t bank on herd immunity.
How can we make our financial system less fragile? How can we make our healthcare infrastructure less reactive? What can we do to create more robust civic institutions that work for all of us?
The studies describe new methods for accelerating drug approvals during pandemics and for providing more accurate measures of the probabilities of success for clinical trials of vaccines.
