Kaidong Peng, PhD '23 is the inaugural recipient of the Dennis Grimard Distinguished User Award. The award recognizes MIT.nano users who go beyond standard expectations to meaningfully improve the facility and the broader user community through their actions.
In almost every lab at the Institute, researchers are delving into AI. And the tools they’re developing and deploying have already turbocharged existing methods and opened new pathways to discovery.
Founded by Tristan Bepler PhD ’20 and former MIT professor Tim Lu PhD ’07, OpenProtein.AI offers researchers open-source models and other tools for protein engineering.
New MIT work advances the growing field of ionotronics, in which data are transferred through ions, potentially providing a bridge between electronics and biological tissue.
Long thought to be mainly a structural support, the cell membrane also influences how cells respond to signals and may contribute to the growth of cancer cells.
