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Five MIT faculty members take on Cancer Grand Challenges | MIT News
Cancer Grand Challenges recently announced five winning teams for 2024, which included five researchers from MIT: Michael Birnbaum, Regina Barzilay, Brandon DeKosky, Seychelle Vos, and Ömer Yilmaz. Each team is made up of interdisciplinary cancer researchers from across the globe and will be awarded $25 million over five years. Birnbaum, an associate professor in the…
Kenneth Libbrecht interview: A grand unified theory of snowflakes
Courtesy of Kenneth Libbrecht SNOWFALL in Pasadena, California, is so rare, it’s almost unheard of. Except, that is, at the California Institute of Technology, where Kenneth Libbrecht can conjure it up using the world’s most sophisticated snowflake-making equipment. As a physicist, Libbrecht has tackled some fairly epic questions, like the nature of gravitational waves and…