How Are Cancer Researchers Fighting COVID-19? (Part III)

SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: How Are Cancer Researchers Fighting COVID-19? (Part III)

Tuesday, March 29, 2022
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. EDT

Luria Auditorium, Koch Institute
and live-streamed on Zoom

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*All in-person attendees must abide by current safety protocols.

The third in a series of COVID-specific with/in/sight events, this evening program will present updates from three projects begun in spring 2020. Find out how MIT faculty and clinical investigators are addressing urgent and pressing needs related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Featured Presenters:

Angela Belcher, PhD

James Mason Crafts Professor and Head of the Department of Biological Engineering
Novel materials for PPE

Hojun Li, MD, PhD

Charles W. (1955) and Jennifer C. Johnson Clinical Investigator
On-demand protective immunity testing

Michael B. Yaffe, MD, PhD

David H. Koch Professor of Science; Intensive Care Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Overcoming respiratory distress

Moderated by Jane Wilkinson

Executive Director, Koch Institute

Watch the first two parts in this series:

Part I of the series, presented on May 11, 2020

Part II of the series, presented on June 29, 2020