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MIT.nano Job Opening: Applications Engineer

The Applications Engineer will play a key role in implementing and maintaining MIT.nano’s lab management system – NanoFab Equipment Management & Operations (NEMO) MIT.nano is a large shared services facility with over 1,000 users and hundreds of tools and instruments. NEMO, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is an open source web application used to schedule reservations, enable/disable tools, track maintenance issues, track tool usage, and more.

March 29, 2024

Kurt J. Lesker Company tool talk—Nov. 10

Join MIT.nano and the Kurt J. Lesker Company for a tool talk on materials and systems.

11 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET
MIT.nano, 12-0168

MIT-led team receives funding to develop a wearable monitor for early disease detection

Awarded up to $38 million from ARPA-H, the team aims to create a low-power, noninvasive sensor patch that measures heart failure and sepsis biomarkers in real-time.

November 4, 2026

DMSE Wulff Lecture: From Basic Materials Concepts to Technologically Relevant Applications—Nov. 9

Join DMSE for the 2026 Wulff Lecture. Harry Tuller, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, will explore how fundamental materials science leads to unexpected technological advances—and how those advances deepen our understanding of ceramic materials.

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Building 6 Room 120

The Next Wave: A Tough Tech Mixer—Nov. 10

Join Engine Ventures, Deshpande Center, Martin Trust Center, and MIT.nano for an evening of connection and conversation about the next wave of breakthroughs, and meet the partners, advisors, and peers to build with.

This informal gathering brings together researchers, engineers, and aspiring entrepreneurs with founders and investors to exchange ideas, meet potential collaborators, and talk candidly about the first steps from research to company building.

A flexible new route to designer materials built from nanoparticles

Pliable connector molecules could be key to creating nanoparticle-based materials for photonics, chemical catalysis, medicine, and more.

November 2, 2026

MIT engineers design a safer, more efficient vaccination system for farmed fish

Water-resistant microneedles made from food-grade silk could deliver vaccines to help prevent the spread of disease in aquaculture.

November 2, 2026

Regina Barzilay and Jim Collins win Pritzker Prize for AI and Science Research Excellence for work in AI-enabled antibiotic discovery

The MIT professors collaborated to identify the first AI-discovered antibiotic, a scientific breakthrough that is widely recognized as a milestone in AI-driven drug discovery.

November 2, 2026

Powering up for a pivotal moment

From a nuclear revival to qubits, the MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research conference tracked deployment of today’s technologies to discovery of tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

November 2, 2026

MIT engineers create nanoparticles for delivering personalized cancer vaccines

The particles carry a customized dose of cancer antigens that can provoke a strong immune response against tumors.

October 30, 2026

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