At the Wyss Institute, we leverage recent insights into how Nature builds, controls and manufactures to develop new engineering innovations - a new field of research we call Biologically Inspired Engineering. Our scientists, engineers and clinicians, who come from Harvard's Schools of Medicine, Engineering, Arts & Sciences, Design, and Education as well as 12 collaborating academic institutions and hospitals, work alongside staff with industrial experience in product development to engineer transformative solutions to some of the world’s greatest problems. By emulating biological principles of self assembly, organization and regulation, we are developing disruptive technology solutions for healthcare, energy, architecture, robotics, and manufacturing, which are translated into commercial products and therapies through formation of new startups and corporate alliances.
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We're excited to share that Wyss Scientist Megan Sperry will be speaking at the upcoming LBF and Foresight Institute Longevity Workshop.
Megan Sperry from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University will be speaking at the 2024 LBF and Foresight Longevity Workshop. Dates: July 28-29, 2024 Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Location: Future House and LKSC at Stanford University For more details, please visit the event page: https://lnkd.in/dFYzeQVu
What is a cancer vaccine? How does it work? In this video produced by Harvard University, Yang (Claire) Zeng, a Senior Scientist at the Wyss and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute answers all of your questions. #CancerResearch #CancerTreatment
In the 100-ish years that humans have failed to come up with a viable solution to our plastic waste problem, microbes have evolved a simple one: just eat it. Learn how Wyss researchers are harnessing the power of microbes to solve big problems in sustainability: https://bit.ly/4eWQhFi Circe Kula Bio Breaking Collaborative Fund #SyntheticBiology #Sustainability #GreenTech
In the warm weather, many of us take for granted that we can easily get clean water to stay hydrated. An estimated 502,000 people die each year from diarrhea as a result of unsafe water. To help, Wyss researchers developed AquaPulse, a portable off-the-grid water purification system for killing bacteria, parasites, and viruses. #CleanWaterForAll #Water #Sustainability https://lnkd.in/gXwTXKg
Scientists at the Wyss created Cellular "Backpacks" to fight cancer and autoimmune disorders. This innovation enables fine-tuned control over macrophages and other immune cell types so they can fight disease. #Immunotherapy #CellTherapy https://lnkd.in/em6hJSw
What if we could address age-related diseases by making old cells young again? The Wyss' Ichor project is using high-throughput genetic screening to identify networks of genes that are strongly implicated in aging processes and develop RNA-based therapies to do just that! #Aging #Genetics #SyntheticBiology https://lnkd.in/eXZd6Q8J
Researchers at the Wyss developed a T-cell stimulating biomaterial that slowly biodegrades under the skin and was able to stimulate CAR-T cells in the body to improve therapeutic efficacy in an aggressive mouse tumor model. Read more about this work from Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. #Immunotherapy #ImmuneEngineering #Therapeutics https://lnkd.in/eTAU2HfH
☀ ⛵ 🍔 Summer is a time for basking in the sun, boating, and barbeques. Unfortunately, meat has a large carbon footprint. 🌱 Wyss startup Tender Food is reducing the carbon footprint of the food industry, and it all started with Luke Macqueen's "impossible" dream of growing meat without animals. Learn about how he made that dream a reality in this Lumineer Spotlight. #Vegan #Vegetarian #PlantBasedDiet #Sustainability https://lnkd.in/dZKxNxjp
What do skin diseases, breastfeeding, and PFAS have in common? They're all topics of this year's class of Wyss Validation Projects! Learn more about the teams who are working to solve them and other global problems: https://bit.ly/4co7uG6 Maria Poley Jiapeng Wang, PhD Rushdy Ahmad, PhD Michael Super Andy W. Prakash Shrestha Kasia Kready Mary Catherine (MC) Skolfield Kwasi Adu-Berchie Michel Nofal Namita Sarraf Kuanwei Sheng Elizabeth Hann Tzu-Chieh (Zijay) Tang Feyisayo Eweje Li Li Abidemi Junaid Adama Marie Sesay Simon d'Oelsnitz Christopher Chen Subramanian Sundaram Stefan Zukin #TechnologyTranslation #Innovation #Sustainability #Therapeutics #Diagnostics