SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Pushing Boundaries, Breaking Barriers Against Brain Cancer—Nov. 9

Koch Institute investigators are working across disciplines to combine nanotechnology and novel drug combinations to improve patient care. Discover how the team’s Trojan horse approach sneaks across the blood brain barrier and packs a one-two punch that hits glioblastoma cancer cells while their defenses are down.

6:30 PM — 7:30 PM
Join via Zoom.

Paula T. Hammond, PhD, Head, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering; David H. Koch Professor of Engineering; Member, Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine
Fred Chiu-Lai Lam, MD, Clinical Scholar, Division of Neurosurgery, McMaster University; Research Scientist, Koch Institute
Moderated by: Michael B. Yaffe, MD, PhD, Director, Koch Institute Clinical Investigator Program; Director, MIT Center for Precision Cancer Medicine; David H. Koch Professor of Science; Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering

MIT.nano and MTL Career Fair—Nov. 2

MIT students, researchers, and alumni! Come meet with representatives from the MIT.nano Consortium and the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) Microsystems Industrial Group (MIG). Explore opportunities for summer and permanent employment with leading companies across multiple industries.

Fujikura joins MIT.nano Consortium

Optical communication device and electrical equipment manufacturing company to advise, collaborate with MIT researchers.

Nano Day 2020: A nanoscale view of the pandemic

October 9 is National Nanotechnology Day—the date that corresponds to one nanometer, 1x10-9 or one billionth of a meter.

This year, MIT.nano is recognizing Nano Day by taking measure of COVID-19 challenges and solutions in nanometers.
 

Tool talk & workshop with Gatan—Oct. 29

Join us for a virtual tool talk and workshop with Gatan to learn how to get the best out of the Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) and how to optimize experimental conditions to capture the full spectrum of information assessable by EELS.

Thursday, October 29, 2020
11 am – 1 pm EST

Attendees can join via Zoom.
Meeting ID: 945 8610 0937