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7.1.10 ANNOUNCEMENT:
Instant Testing for Sore Throats wins the CIMIT Primary Healthcare Prize
DNA nanobarcodes could deliver accurate results on whether pharyngitis is caused by strep, flu or any variety of other diseases.
The CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare is a national competition open to graduate and undergraduate engineering students from accredited engineering programs. The competition seeks ideas for technologic innovations with great potential to support and catalyze improved delivery of healthcare at the frontlines of medicine. The top three student entrants (individuals or teams) will receive $150,000, $100,000 and $50,000, respectively, to help advance their winning clinically-relevant, primary care solutions. Learn more.
This CIMIT Prize is made possible because of a generous gift from the Gelfand Family Charitable Trust.
CIMIT Creates Climate of Collaboration for
Drs. Schachter, Guttag on Epilepsy Therapy
The presentation is unsettling, especially when the man’s upper body rotates unnaturally and he eventually must be helped to the floor.
It is this disabling condition that Dr. Schachter, a doctor, researcher and authority on epilepsy, and colleague John Guttag, PhD, a professor and computer scientist, are focusing on as they work to discover better methods of treatment. They are passionate about using technology to provide innovative solutions, and have worked closely with CIMIT to advance their research.
Much of their story revolves around how they began their partnership. One of CIMIT’s great strengths is putting together motivated researchers who can complement each other, and this certainly has been the case with Steve Schachter and John Guttag.
Dr. Schachter is an epilepsy clinician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Guttag is a computer scientist and a professor at MIT.
Though only two miles separate BIDMC and MIT, the two institutions are worlds apart. CIMIT proved to be the meeting ground where these two energetic scientists began discussing a technology that could prove to be larger than the sum of its parts – and a promising technology for patients.
Read entire story to learn how a new approach might be developed 
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ANNOUNCMENTS:
6.22.10
CIMIT Announces $3 Million in Medical Research Grants
Awards will support projects targeting brain injuries, pain management, and innovations in healthcare delivery systems.
6.17.10
CIMIT Young Clinician Research Awards Call for Nominations: June 20 - September 15, 2010
2.16.10
2010 CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare Finalists Selected
This CIMIT Prize is made possible because of a generous gift from the Gelfand Family Charitable Trust.
11.23.09
CIMIT Awards Eight Graduate Fellowships to Students at MIT, BU
The the 2008 & 2009 Young Clinician Research Award Program was supported by a generous gift from Johnson & Johnson
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