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“Nanosensors target enzymes to monitor and study cancer”
Check out the full article on MIT News (October 2022).
Sangeeta Amongst Top 50 Serial Academic Life Science Entrepreneurs
Photo artist Herlinde Koelbl features Sangeeta in her “Fascination of Science” Exhibit
Read more about “Fascination of Science” here (August 2022).
Sangeeta featured in STAT+ article on synthetic biomarkers
Bhatia, Li and Sikes design a new test to predict Covid-19 immunity
Fierce Pharma named Sangeeta one of the most influential people in biopharma
STAT LIST 2022
STAT has named Sangeeta as one of the 2022 trailblazing researchers working in the life sciences (February 2022).
LMRT featured in The Next Byte Podcast
Next Byte hosts highlight LMRT’s early cancer detection tools in this episode and article (January 2022).
Check out the videos for the Future Founders Initiative
Watch Sangeeta and other scientists here (October 2021)
Sangeeta named one of Bios+ Top Women in Academic Entrepreneurship
Read full story here (March 2023).
Sangeeta’s Profile on PNAS
Sangeeta reflects on her journey from being a graduate student at MIT to running her own lab. Read the full PNAS profile here (March 2023).
New Publication Featured on MIT News
“A simple paper test could offer early cancer diagnosis.” Read the full article here (April 2023).
MIT faculty tackle big ideas in a symposium kicking off Inauguration Day
Read the full MIT News article here (May 2023).
Check out the full list here (October 2022).
Sangeeta featured in “FROM CONTROVERSY TO CURE - Inside the Cambridge Biotech Boom”
Watch the full documentary here.
You can read the full article at MIT News (August 2022).
Latest paper revealing new key players in liver regeneration featured by MIT and Nature Materials
You can read the full articles at MIT News and Nature Materials (July 2022).
Our new paper about distinguishing viral and bacterial pneumonia via nanosensors has been featured by MIT
You can read more about the paper at MIT News (June 2022).
Her work with Future Founders, Glympse and Satellite Bio are highlighted, along with the lab. Read the article (May 2022)
“The thriving ecosystem in Cambridge drives innovation, but has fallen short when it comes to integrating women and people of color.” Read the full article (April 2022).
Kendall Square’s Diversity Problem
The Uprising tells the story of the unprecedented behind-the-scenes effort that amassed irrefutable evidence of differential treatment of men and women on the MIT faculty in the 1990s.
Sangeeta featured in The Uprising
Watch Sangeeta and other women in biotech discuss the barriers to women entering the industry at the 2021 STAT Summit (November 2021).
Breaking down the barriers
A review on synthetic biomarkers written by Gabe, Sangeeta, and others is featured in the Nature Cancer Reviews 20th Anniversary Special Edition
Check out the issue (September 2021)
Celebrating the people behind Kendall Square’s innovation ecosystem
Sangeeta received one of this year’s Founder Awards from the Kendall Square Association. Read more about the event here (October 2024).
Featured ViDeos
HST MEMP grad Carmen Martin Alonso looks ahead to a bright future
"Awarded a provisional patent for her work on liquid biopsy ‘priming agents,’ she hopes to be the founding scientist of a start-up soon.” Read Carmen’s spotlight here (July 2024).
Circadian rhythms can influence drugs’ effectiveness
"MIT researchers find circadian variations in liver function play an important role in how drugs are broken down in the body.” Read at MIT News here (April 2024).
Research on bile duct cancer detection earns $10,000 prize
LMRT’s Jesse Kirkpatrick wins prize and brings attention to cholangiocarcinoma. Read about his research here (February 2024).
Researchers improve blood tests’ ability to detect and monitor cancer
“The advance makes it easier to detect circulating tumor DNA in blood samples, which could enable earlier cancer diagnosis and help guide treatment." Read more at MIT News (January 2024).
Detecting Tumors with a Blood Draw
Listen as LMRT’s Carmen Martin-Alonso speaks to the Science Podcast here (January 2024).
Inhalable sensors could enable early lung cancer detection
“The diagnostic, which requires only a simple urine test to read the results, could make lung cancer screening more accessible worldwide." Read more at MIT News (January 2024).
From Classmates to Co-Founders
“Sangeeta Bhatia and Chris Chen, Wyss faculty members and friends since graduate school, are about to launch their second startup company;” read here (January 2024).
MIT’s Tiny Technologies Go to Washington
Read about the showcase given by LMRT’s Tarek Fadel and other representatives of the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine here (December 2023).
Building Trust and Fostering Collaborations Key to Startup Formation
Read about the keystone talk of the Dean’s Symposium on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, given by Sangeeta, here (December 2023).
The ATSE new Fellows for 2023 represent extraordinary expertise across Australian engineering, applied science and technology.
Read Sangeeta’s FTSE profile here (October 2023).
Grant to Bhatia Lab to Advance Nanosensors to Diagnose Pediatric Pneumonia
Find out more in the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research article here (August 2023).
Special report 2023: Meet 20 women reshaping biopharma
Read the full Endpoints News article here (July 2023).
Sangeeta presented our Tiny Technologies for Liver and Cancer to a combined audience for the NIH Director's WALS and Win Arias' Demystifying Medicine series. Watch here! - March 2022
Sangeeta’s feature in Cancer World Magazine
Sangeeta’s feature in Cancer World Magazine. Read the full article here (December 2022).
Sangeeta’s Success Story profile on Ludwig Cancer Research
Read full story here (January 2023).
2021
2020
2019
Sangeeta Bhatia elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2019. Coverage by MIT News.
The Bhatia Lab’s work is featured in an article in the Harvard School of Public Health Magazine
Combatting PDAC with Two Tumor-Targeting Small RNAs
Sangeeta Bhatia is featured in UpWorthy
Bhatia Publication Selected by Cell Host and Microbe as Best of 2018
Our colour-change urine test for cancer was featured by Imperial News, Nature, Nanowerk, Phys.org, and Science Daily
tPost-doc Luba Perry won an image award from the Wyss Institute
Watch Dr. Bhatia talk about our cancer nanotechology with Big Think Science
Sangeeta Bhatia honored by the Institute of Cancer Research
Sangeeta Bhatia receives the 2019 Othmer Gold Medal
TRAINEE AWARD! Research Technician Renee Zhao, and rest of MIT Sport Taekwondo earn national title
Our magnetic microbots were featured by MIT News, NIH Director Francis Collins’ blog, Science Daily, News Medical, Technology Network, Phys.org, Nanowerk, and MDDI Online
Graduate student Ava Soleimany's deep learning class is featured in MIT News
Our tissue model’s use for studying RNAi was featured by MIT News
An automated method for debiasing AI algorithms proposed by graduate student Ava Soleimany and other MIT CSAIL researchers propose was featured by VentureBeat, Endgadget, Dailymail, and Geek.com
Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia awarded as top Global Indian by Vogue Magazine
Check out Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia's interview with Roadtrip Nation about her career path
2018
Sangeeta Bhatia and Wyss faculty among the highest cited researchers in ‘Web of Science’
Graduate student Ava Soleimany's "Introduction to Deep Learning" class featured by MIT EECS
TRAINEE AWARD! UROP Anna Sappington named 2019 Marshall Scholar
Our urine test to diagnose bacterial pneumonia has been featured by MIT News, Science Daily, Phys.org, AIMBE, Technology Networks, and Tech Explorist.
Our research director Dr. Heather Fleming was interviewed in the HHMI newsletter. Parts 1, 2, 3
Sangeeta Bhatia joins Wyss Institute
Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia featured on the AIMBE Engineer Diversity webpage
Our activity-based nanosensors to detect prostate cancer are featured by the Koch Institute
TRAINEE AWARD! Post-doc Quinton Smith receives the HHMI Hanna H. Gray Award for Early Career Scientists. Coverage by MIT News
Graduate student Colin Buss was featured in MIT Technology Review
Sangeeta Bhatia featured in LittleBits article celebrating awesome women in STEM
Sangeeta Bhatia's Life@MIT Highlight Video
Our paper on novel technology that could allow researchers to develop and test new antimalaria drugs was featured by MIT News, Cell Press News and Views, National Academy of Engineering, and Phys.org
Bhatia lab highlighted in AAAS Annual Conference
2017
TRAINEE AWARD! LMRT Alumni Andrew Warren Named as part of Forbes 30 under 30
Sangeeta Bhatia was featured in the Brown Alumni Magazine
TRAINEE AWARD! LMRT grad student Jaideep Dudani named to the Siebel Scholars class of 2018
Sangeeta Bhatia gave a Spotlight talk at the Grand Challenges meeting. Watch it here
Graduate student Jaideep Dudani participated in the 67th Annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Chemistry
TRAINEE AWARD! Post-doc Dr. Jiang He was selected as a 2017 STAT Wunderkind
Sangeeta Bhatia winner of the 2017 Catalyst Award
Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia winner of the "Innovation at the Intersection" Xconomy Award. Additional coverage of the award can be found on the Harvard Medical School and Koch Institute websites.
Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia and other LMRT members were highlighted in this year's Ludwig Cancer Research annual report as part of the "Moving Discoveries" feature.
Sangeeta Bhatia was featured by Johnson and Johnson as a female biotech superstar who wants to change the future of healthcare.
Former LMRT Member Dr. Simone Schürle appointed as tenure track Assistant Professor of Responsive Biomedical Systems at ETH Zurich
Sangeeta Bhatia is elected by the Association for Women in Science as a new board member to Focus on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in STEM
Dr. Tarek Fadel speaks at an European Union event on "Health and Innovation: Nanotechnology for Medicine"
TRAINEE AWARD! Two former Bhatia Lab members received NIH's New Innovator Award
Our work about engineered liver tissues was featured by MIT News, The Scientist, The Boston Herald, UPI, Medical Xpress, and Gizmodo.
Our article about antibiotic nanoparticles that fight drug-resistant bacteria was featured by MIT News. It was also highlighted as an Editor's Choice Article in Science Translational Medicine
Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia featured in Bloomberg TV
Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia Interview Featured in Bionieuws (Dutch journal)
Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia featured in Women@TheFrontier
Sangeeta Bhatia joined Dr. Angela Belcher and Dr. Paula Hammond to speak with WBUR 90.9 about nanotechnology
TRAINEE AWARD! UROP Tiffany Yeh was featured by MIT News
Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Coverage by MIT News, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and TED
Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia Receives Honorary Doctorate From Utrecht University
TRAINEE AWARD! LMRT researcher Ester Kwon recognized as ACS Nano Junior Fellow
Our work on detecting ovarian tumors was featured by MIT News and Technology Networks
Nature Biomedical Engineering blog features post by LMRT researcher Ester Kwon about recent targeted biomarkers publication
TRAINEE AWARD! Post-doc Liangliang Hao wins 2017 Women in Cancer Research Scholar award
Brigham & Women's Hospital Clinical and Research News features Dr. Bhatia
Dr. Bhatia advocates for gender equity in STEM in a Guardian piece
Broad Institute blog post discusses organoid research advancing biology and engineering, including LMRT's liver aggregates
TRAINEE AWARD! Bhatia lab postdoc, Jiang He, brings home another “30 under 30” award to our home at the Koch Institute
MIT selects news story about LMRT's magnetically activated protease sensors as "Best of 2016"
Sangeeta Bhatia featured in Forbes India as one of the “18 Indian Minds Who Are Doing Cutting Edge Work”
2016
Detecting Cancer Early with Nanosensors and a Urine Test - Dr. Bhatia discusses the lab's technology at the Exponential Medicine Conference
Magnetically actuated protease sensor technology receives wide press coverage from MIT News, India New England News, AZO Nano, and ECN Magazine
Prof. Bhatia discusses the need for increased diversity in biotech in a spotlight story with Xconomy
Broad Institute article discussing recent malaria publication
Prof. Bhatia spoke at the World Economic Forum on Cancer Diagnostics. Watch the talk here
News coverage for the lab's recent CRISPR-plus publication : MIT News describes the technology, developed by LMRT post-doc Piyush Jain and others in the lab. The International Business Times has also covered the publication, as has ChemistryViews Magazine. The work was highlighted on the TED Blog, as well. Also check out a YouTube video describing the technology.
Recent work published in Nature from LMRT in collaboration with Jeff Hasty's lab at UC San Diego demonstrates a cancer-fighting bacteria programmed to deliver toxic payloads within tumors. Coverage from MIT News, Phys.org, The Atlantic, and Scientific American discuss the paper and its potential applications. The story was featured on 7/21 on the MIT homepage. The July 21st issue of the Nature Podcast included a segment on the paper--check it out by fast-forwarding to 16:10 in this audio clip!
Professor Bhatia presented at Vice President Biden's Cancer Moonshot Summit in D.C.
Press from recent publications on traumatic brain injury through Science Daily, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and The Statesman.
TRAINEE AWARD! LMRT post-doc delivers lauded speech at Harvard 2016 Commencement, covered by the Harvard Gazette, Huffington Post, and Sixth Tone
Dr. Bhatia discusses synthetic biomarkers nanoparticle platform with PNAS podcast
Koch Institute announces the opening of the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine
Boston Globe article discusses technology advances coming out of Kendall Square, including Bhatia lab research on bioartificial livers
Dr. Bhatia discusses work on engineering a "microliver" in interview with CCTV America
Nature Biotechnology Feature includes Dr. Bhatia's commentary on important areas of biotech research in the coming years
Bhatia lab post-doc Justin Voog authors JAMA letter to the editor about prostate cancer clinical trial
TRAINEE AWARD! Image of liver regeneration technology selected as one of the top 20 science images of the year
TRAINEE AWARD! Two lab images selected as Koch Institute Image Award winners for 2016
"A Renaissance Woman for the Nano Age" - MIT Tech Review profiles Dr. Bhatia's career
MIT News discusses Dr. Bhatia's participation in StartMIT program
Brown Alumni Magazine article features Dr. Bhatia
MIT student blog discusses Dr. Bhatia's participation in StartMIT, an entrepreneurship workshop
2015
Programmable probiotics cancer-diagnostic technology article receives recommendation from Faculty of 1000
Dr. Bhatia elected to the National Academy of Inventors
Fast Company Co.EXIST article discusses Dr. Bhatia's recent TEDMED talk about the lab's cancer diagnostic synthetic biomarker technology
Dr. Bhatia one of five highlighted by Forbes México as leaders who "changed the world"
Nature Protocols article featured on journal's homepage
Bhatia lab post-doc Justin Voog authors letter to the editor in JAMA regarding prostate cancer treatments
Dr. Bhatia to give TEDMED talk on November 20
The home of LMRT highlighted by Wired Magazine as "the world's most innovative intersection"
Dr. Bhatia gave the keynote address at the groundbreaking ceremony for Brown University's new School of Engineering building. You can see the news report from Brown's website here, and check out Dr. Bhatia's keynote address here
Scientific American "60 Second Science" features the lab's probiotic cancer diagnostic technology
Dr. Bhatia participates in panel at 2015 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting (Huffington Post)
Dr. Bhatia featured on HHMI homepage
TRAINEE AWARD! PhD student Andrew Warren wins Ludwig Center for Molecular Oncology Graduate Fellowship
The MIT Convocation for the Class of 2019 included speech from Dr. Bhatia, see coverage by MIT News
everywoman article highlights Dr. Bhatia's mentorship, naming her an inspiring "woman to watch"
Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology highlights the lab's recent publication creating cancer diagnostic probiotics
Dr. Bhatia selected as one of the "Worldview 100," a list of the most influential people in biotechnology
TRAINEE AWARD! LMRT Post-doc Tal Danino recognized in Cool Hunting's CH25, a showcase of talented individuals who are "designing the future"
Dr. Bhatia discusses recent cancer-detecting probiotics research in Scientific American podcast
Technology Feature in Nature highlight's LMRT's contributions to organ-on-a-chip development and Hepregen's advances in liver models
The Economist features Dr. Bhatia's organ-on-a-chip review in their article about organ chip technologies
MIT-K12 video about liver regeneration highlights LMRT work
Engineered probiotics can detect tumors in the liver. Featured in MIT News, The Scientist, Science, Smithsonian Magazine, BBC News, UCSD News, US News & World Report Health, The Boston Globe, LA Times, The Economic Times, Popular Science, Fox News, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Digital Journal, Nature World News
Dr. Bhatia elected to the Brown University Board of Trustees
TRAINEE AWARD! UROP Angela Zhang wins award in BE Znaty-Merck Undergraduate Research Competition
Dr. Bhatia has won a 2015 Heinz Award for her work in establishing a model liver, creating simple and affordable cancer tools, and encouraging women's involvement in STEM fields. See coverage in Heinz Family Foundation, MIT News, the Koch Institute website, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and additional coverage through various media outlets, including the New York Times and NBC News.
Dr. Bhatia elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
HuffPost writer highlights Dr. Bhatia as one of the most inspirational women
TRAINEE AWARD! Bhatia postdoc, Tal Danino, featured first in his TED Fellows 2015 class
TED 2015: Bacteria programmed to find tumours
Lemelson-MIT video features Dr. Bhatia giving a microfluidics demonstration
Recent paper on modeling Malaria in engineered liver tissues featured by NPG
Bhatia lab postdoc Tal Danino's work with artist Vik Muniz has been featured again, this time in "Techly".
LMRT's advances in liver tissue engineering and nanotools for cancer detection, diagnosis and treatment were featured in the print issue of WIRED
Call for more diverse STEM toys includes LEGO Dr. Bhatia
Dr. Bhatia profiled by TechRepublic
Cover image highlights Bhatia paper on controlling cancer with sugar molecules
Dr. Bhatia elected to the National Academy of Engineering
The lab's recent malaria research is featured in MIT News
Post-doc Tal Danino's artwork featured in campaign to promote vaccination (New York Times coverage)
Dr. Bhatia featured in Entrepreneur Magazine
2014
Post-doc Tal Danino selected as a TED Fellow for 2015
Dr. Bhatia participates on "Partnering For Cures" expert panel.
Dr. Bhatia wins Prof. Amar G. Bose Research Award
Dr. Bhatia selected as one of Foreign Policy Magazine's 2014 Global Thinkers
TRAINEE AWARD! Grad student Andrew Warren wins poster award at the 2014 MicroTAS Conference
Dr. Bhatia featured in SWE Magazine
TRAINEE AWARD! Grad students Justin Lo and Andrew Warren win awards at 2014 BMES Annual Meeting
Dr. Bhatia has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 Corning Inc./Lab on a Chip Pioneers of Miniaturisation Lectureship
"Bridging the Gap in Ovarian Cancer" Symposium at the Koch Institute
The Fall 2014 edition of MIT's SPECTRVM Magazine features a profile of Dr. Bhatia entitled "Sophisticated Medicine."
The lab's work on imaging tumors using carbon nanotubes is featured in Chemical Research in Toxicology
Single-Molecule Array (SiMoA) detection of synthetic biomarkers featured by Chemical & Engineering News
MIT Technology Review features the lab's cancer-diagnostic probiotic technology.
Boston Globe editorial features Dr. Bhatia's accomplishments as a researcher, inventor, and mentor.
Sangeeta Bhatia has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 Lemelson-MIT Prize. The news was featured by NBC News, Boston Globe, BostInno, MIT News, HHMI News, ECN Magazine, Big Think, Inside Philanthropy
Dr. Bhatia offers her perspective on the high-tech gender gap in an article in the MIT Technology Review
Feature in The Scientist highlights growing clinical potential for RNAi, and its use in the Bhatia lab
NanoSTAT technology featured in Chemical & Engineering News
Post-doc Tal Danino featured by the Koch Institute, CNET, and The Creators Project. Check out a video about the project, too!
Our work on a viral lifecycle model that could help cure hepatitis B is featured by MIT News
State of the Art Review from Bhatia and colleagues featured on the cover of Science Translational Medicine: "Cell and tissue engineering for liver disease”
Progress towards building artificial livers featured on NPR's “Here and Now”
Bhatia named among the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company
Boston Globe features LMRT's low cost urine test for cancer in their Magazine.
TRAINEE AWARD! Bhatia lab trainee, Alex Bagley, highlighted at Koch Institute image awards
The latest advance in LMRT's synthetic biomarker platform achieves cancer detection by paper test. It was featured by New Scientist, Wired, CNET, WBUR CommonHealthBlog, Science News, Red Orbit, Fox News, Gizmodo, Times of India, Silicon India, Headlines and Global News, Nigerian bulletin, Medical News Today, News Track India, Business Standard, Indian Express, Jagran Josh, Xinhuan Net, Genetic Engineering News, India TV News, Medical Daily, Free Press Journal, The Economic Times, Outlook India, Science Daily, Medical Xpress, Newswise, Science World Report
Collaboration with MIT's Manalis lab highlights attogram-scale measurements, featured by MIT News
Sangeeta Bhatia recruited to join the Ludwig Center for Molecular Oncology
2013
MIT Technology Review features Lin et al. thrombosis diagnostic
TRAINEE AWARD! March et. al. MPCC platform for human malaria makes Top 10 list in Malaria Nexus
Sangeeta Bhatia named one of three Merkin Fellows by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
TomoNews US animates recent publication on nanoparticle detection of thrombosis (Lin et al.)
The lab's synthetic biomarker platform that detects blood clots was featured on the MIT Homepage. It was also featured by Economist, Huffington Post, Healthline, RTT News, Medical News Today, Med Page Today
TRAINEE AWARD! Synthetic Biomarker platform awarded catalyst translation grant from the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
Hepregen launches new tools for drug screening based on MPCC technology
Sangeeta Bhatia selected as one of '10 most influential women in biotech' by the Boston Globe
Our game NanoDoc to crowdsource nanomedicine attracts wide media attention: New Scientist, The Guardian, Scientific American, SciStarter, Phys.org, MedGadget, The Conversation, Robohub, IEEE, IdeaScale
Sangeeta Bhatia profiled at the Broad Institute
MPCC platform for human malaria featured in Malaria Nexus
Gates Foundation-funded work on in vitro malaria platform widely touted by MIT News, Laboratory Equipment, Nanowerk, News Medical
TRAINEE AWARD! Post-doc Sabine Hauert featured in the Lindau Nobel conference blog
InVERT molding paper featured on Nature Communications homepage
Collaboration with the Broad Institute identifies small molecules that expand and mature human liver cells. Featured on the MIT home page and also by Science Daily, Nature World News, Machines Like Us
2012
MIT News features LMRT's synthetic biomarker platform
Science and Science Translational Medicine special feature on Biomaterials includes commentary from Dr. Bhatia
Findings on adhesion molecules involved in metastatic spread of cancer cells featured widely in press: release from MIT News, Cell Migration Gateway, HighMag, Medical News Today, Science Daily, redOrbit
siRNA nanoparticle development highlighted by many news outlets: MIT News, Domain B, E News, BioResearch Online, R & D Magazine, HealthCanal, eScience News, Laboratory Equipment, Dr Tipster, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News , Broad Minded (Broad Institute)
Collaboration with Chris Chen's lab featured in BBC News, and other outlets, including Wired and AAAS' EurekAlert
LMRT's microfluidic device for sickle cell disease measurement is featured by: MIT News, Boston Business Journal -- Mass High Tech, Nature Medicine, Science Translational Medicine Podcast, R&D Magazine
LMRT research drives hepatitis research forward with induced pluripotent stem cells is featured by: MIT News, Nature Methods, "Editor's Choice" in Medical News Today, News Medical, DoctorsLounge