Kathrin "Kat" Kajderowicz, a PhD student in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Whitehead Institute, is studying how hibernation-like states for cells, organs, or even whole organisms could pave the way for new hypothermic therapies.
MIT graduate students Kat Kajderowicz and Shomik Verma, alumni Desmond Edwards and Steven Truong, and Vaibhav Mohanty, an MD-PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, are among 30 recipients of this year’s Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.
MIT faculty members Lindsay Case, Siniša Hrvatin, Deblina Sarkar, and Caroline Uhlerhave received New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health as part of its High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.
New MIT professors research hibernation, cancer, the immune system, airways, and human movement in the departments of biology and brain and cognitive sciences at the School of Science.