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MIT Advocacy in Action at the AACR’s 2025 Hill Day

Koch Institute

May 29, 2025

MIT Koch Institute postdoc Meaghan McGeary traveled to Washington, DC to advocate for increased federal funding for cancer research as part of the annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Hill Day. Joining other early-career scientists in a mission to make more than 50 congressional visits in a single day, she shared her experiences with policymakers, emphasizing the importance of stable research funding.  

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Birnbaum Named Pew Innovation Fund Investigator

MIT News

November 14, 2023

Congratulations to Michael Birnbaum on being named a Pew Innovation Fund Investigator. Together with co-winner Dan Littman, he will investigate how microbes and antigens drive harmful immune responses in the gut in inflammatory bowel disease.

In Memoriam, Dr. Arthur Gelb, 1937-2023

MIT Koch Institute

November 14, 2023

With sadness, the KI marks the passing of long-time supporter Art Gelb, ScD ’61 (XVI), whose advocacy and philanthropy played key roles in the launch of the Bridge Project. The Bridge Project launched shortly after the opening of the Koch Institute and has continued to grow, enabling work by dozens of teams who are developing notable advances in cancer detection, monitoring, and treatment. We gratefully acknowledge Gelb’s vision, commitment, and generosity, and are honored to be part of his living legacy via the Bridge Project.

Introducing the 2023-2024 Convergence Scholars

MIT Koch Institute

November 13, 2023

The Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine and the MIT Center for Precision Cancer Medicine are pleased to announce the 2023-2024 class of Convergence Scholars. Founded in 2017, the Convergence Scholars Program (CSP) is designed to enhance the career development of aspiring independent scientists with diverse interests across academia, industry, science communication, and STEM outreach. This year's scholars are Jonuelle Acosta (Hemann Lab), Margaret Billingsley (Hammond Lab), Asheley Chapman (Irvine Lab), Allison Greaney (Langer Lab), Yizong Hu (Anderson Lab), Vardhman Kumar (Bhatia Lab), Corey Stevens (Belcher Lab), Elen Torres (Spranger Lab), and Bocheng Wu (Koehler Lab).

10 Years of the Bridge Project

MIT Koch Institute

November 10, 2023

In large part the brainchild of the late Art Gelb, ScD ’61, the Bridge Project was launched in 2012 with a simple idea uniquely suited to Greater Boston. Designed to leverage the collective expertise of MIT and Harvard, particularly its clinical cancer centers and teaching hospitals, the program’s goal is to enable collaborative research teams combining innovative science, tools and technologies with the translational expertise of clinical oncologists to solve challenging problems in cancer.  

Transformations in Cancer Care

Washington Post Live

October 30, 2023

Although cancer mortality rates have declined overall, roughly 2 million people will be diagnosed with cancer and 600,000 Americans will die from the disease this year. Robert Weinberg talks to Washington Post Live about the state of cancer research and how technological advancements are transforming cancer detection and treatment. 

Moving the Needle on Appendiceal Cancer

MIT Koch Institute

October 27, 2023

Co-hosted by MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, the workshop “New Approaches to Accelerating Biomedical Innovation: Case Study on Appendiceal Cancer” brought together stakeholders across academia, industry, patient advocacy groups, and regulatory spaces to lay a foundation for accelerating the development of new treatments for cancer of the appendix—a disease with few effective treatments and a low survival rate.

Anchors Aweigh for Immunotherapy Translation

Business Wire

October 24, 2023

An approach engineered in the Irvine and Wittrup labs to anchor powerful immune medicines at the tumor site—thus avoiding challenges of both systemic and intratumoral delivery—is headed to trials. Ankyra Therapeutics, which the researchers co-founded, announced approval of its investigational new drug application by the US FDA and clinical trial application by Health Canada for its lead agent, ANK-101. Watch or read more to learn about the original research, supported in part by the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine, the Hope Babette Tang (1983) Student Research Fund, the Kristin R. Pressman and Jessica J. Pourian (2013) Koch Institute Fund, the Charles S. Krakauer (1954) Fund, and a KI Quinquennial Cancer Research Fellowship.
 

How to Succeed at Failing

Freakonomics Podcast

October 18, 2023

“Was that really failure? Or was it just being an apprentice to trying to learn how to succeed?”  Robert Langer interviews with the Freakonomics podcast in their multipart series, “How to Succeed at Failing.”

Congratulations, Tigist!

Fred Hutch Cancer Center

October 17, 2023

Congratulations to White Lab postdoc Tigist Tamir on winning one of the Fred Hutch Cancer Center's 2023 Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Awards! The award recognizes early-career underrepresented minority scientists and scientists with disabilities.  

KI Trio elected to National Academy of Medicine

MIT News

October 10, 2023

Daniel Anderson, Darrell Irvine and Regina Barzilay have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine! Weinberg Lab alumnus and cancer researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, whose best-seller Emperor of All Maladies highlighted breakthroughs made by MIT’s cancer research community, was also recognized. Election to the academy is one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, recognizing outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. Congratulations to all!