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Future Health Joins BioConvergence Cancer Alliance as Founding Member

Future Health Initiatives

July 3, 2026

The BioConvergence Cancer Alliance at MIT’s Koch Institute is expanding its global network with the addition of a founding member: Future Health – A Global Initiative by Abu Dhabi.The partnership will create new opportunities for collaboration across research, healthcare, and industry, advancing efforts in cancer prevention, earlier detection, and more effective treatments  

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From tumors to tools

MIT News

August 5, 2026

An international team led by researchers at the Koch Institute, the Broad Institute, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the National Cancer Institute has created nearly 700 well-documented patient-derived cancer models representing 25 cancer types.Senior author Jesse Boehm contributed to the decade-long Human Cancer Models Initiative, which created mostly organoid models that could help researchers identify new drug targets and test potential treatments for a broader range of cancers.

Douglas Lauffenburger named Institute Professor

MIT News

July 20, 2026

Douglas Lauffenburger, Ford Professor of Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Biology, and central founder of MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, has received MIT’s highest faculty honor.

Remembering Susumu Tonegawa 

MIT News

July 15, 2026

The Koch Institute joins the MIT community in mourning Nobel Laureate Susumu Tonegawa, an alumnus of the MIT Center for Cancer Research (our predecessor) and founding director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Driven by curiosity about fundamental questions in biology, Tonegawa made groundbreaking discoveries in immunology and neuroscience. Awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for uncovering the genetic basis of antibody diversity, he later transformed our understanding of how memories are formed, stored, and recalled.

Future Health Joins BioConvergence Cancer Alliance as Founding Member

Future Health Initiatives

July 3, 2026

The BioConvergence Cancer Alliance at MIT’s Koch Institute is expanding its global network with the addition of a founding member: Future Health – A Global Initiative by Abu Dhabi.The partnership will create new opportunities for collaboration across research, healthcare, and industry, advancing efforts in cancer prevention, earlier detection, and more effective treatments  

Sound thinking

MIT News

July 1, 2026

KI alum Canan Dagdeviren and colleagues have developed a portable ultrasound system, described in Nature Communications, that could make reliable breast imaging more accessible. Dagdeviren was also named one of four winners of the 2026 Nature Awards Healthspan Accelerator, which recognizes research with the potential to transform human healthspan.

Whitney Henry Named 2026 Pew Scholar

MIT News

June 29, 2026

Congratulations to Koch Institute faculty member Whitney Henry on being named a 2026 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The prestigious program supports early-career investigators with four years of flexible funding to pursue innovative research. Henry studies ferroptosis in cell fate and tissue remodeling, with implications for disease and regeneration.

Vander Heiden Named Editor-in-Chief of Cancer Discovery

American Association for Cancer Research

June 29, 2026

Congratulations to KI Director Matthew Vander Heiden on his appointment as Editor-in-Chief of Cancer Discovery, the American Association for Cancer Research's flagship journal and one of the world's leading cancer research publications. In this leadership role, he will help shape the publication of impactful research spanning basic, translational, and clinical cancer science.

A dynaMIT Summer of Discovery

MIT News

June 26, 2026

This summer, the Koch Institute is partnering with MIT’s student-run dynaMIT program to bring hands-on cancer research experiences to local middle school students. Through lab tours, interactive experiments, and conversations with scientists, students will get an inside look at the exciting work happening at the Koch Institute.

A Strong First Year for New Manufacturing

MIT News

June 16, 2026

MIT's Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM), co-directed by Christopher Love, marked its first anniversary with Manufacturing Week, a series of events exploring topics in AI, entrepreneurship, and workforce innovation. The week's strong turnout reflected growing enthusiasm for the initiative. “The response and participation level has been huge. MIT Manufacturing Week proved that the appetite for change — from students to chief executives — is real and urgent,” says Paula T. Hammond, dean of MIT’s School of Engineering and co-chair of INM’s Steering Committee.

MIT Koch Institute and the Research Institute, National Cancer Center Japan launch strategic collaboration

MIT Koch Institute

June 1, 2026

The MIT Koch Institute and the Research Institute, National Cancer Center Japan, a leading national research institute focused on advancing oncology through basic and translational research, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The collaboration will leverage both parties’ excellence in research to solve the most pressing problems in cancer and shape the future of convergence science in oncology, specifically in the areas of immune-oncology, basic and epidemiologic cancer research, as well as prevention, diagnosis, screening, treatment, cancer control, and survivorship.