Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology

How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing

The visionary PhysioNet platform launched 25 years ago, based on a system developed at MIT in the 1970s. It has become one of the most comprehensive biomedical and clinical data repositories in existence.

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Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?

Researchers at MIT, Mass General Brigham, and Harvard Medical School developed a deep-learning model to forecast a patient’s heart failure prognosis up to a year in advance.

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3 Questions: Using AI to accelerate the discovery and design of therapeutic drugs

Professor James Collins discusses how collaboration has been central to his research into combining computational predictions with new experimental platforms.

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Five with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2025

Professors Facundo Batista and Dina Katabi, along with three additional MIT alumni, are honored for their outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.

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