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Martinos Responds: ‘Community Help’ Website Brings People Together During a Time of Crisis
As healthcare challenges stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic continue to mount, and patient care and hospital operations schedules grow increasingly busy, many direct care providers are finding ineeds t difficult to keep up with needs at home—grocery shopping, pet care or any number of other resp...
Martinos Cookbook
During the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the Martinos Center community came together to share the gift of food. The Martinos Cookbook collects more than 70 of the recipes they contributed, representing cuisines from around the world and covering every meal from throughout the day. ...
Mathias Davids
Mathias Davids, PhD, is currently an Instructor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He received a BSc in Biomedical Engineering at University of Luebeck in 2011, and an MSc and Ph.D. in Biomedical Physics at Heidelberg University in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Dr. Davids has a strong backgro...
Thomas Yeo
Thomas Yeo is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Thomas received his B.S. and M.S. from Stanford University and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to NUS, Thomas was a research fellow at Harvard University and Duke-NUS Medical School. Th...
Martinos Researchers to Receive Distinguished Investigator Awards
A number of Martinos Center faculty are among the 2020 Council of Distinguished Investigators recently announced by the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research. This prestigious honor recognizes individuals for their accomplishments in the field of medical imaging. The Class of...
Lilianne Mujica-Parodi
Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi is Director of the Laboratory for Computational Neurodiagnostics (LCNeuro). LCNeuro's research focuses on the application of control systems engineering and dynamical systems to imaging-derived time series, at all scales: from human fMRI, M/EEG, fNIRS to rodent LFP and c...
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Martinos Responds: Nurse practitioner Amy Kendall redeploys to help with COVID-19 study
The Martinos Center's Amy Kendall wanted to contribute to the COVID-19 response. When imaging studies at the Center were put on hold for social distancing reasons, she asked if she could be redeployed to the Ragon Institute at MGH, MIT and Harvard to help with a biospecimen repository study with ...
Martinos on the Front Lines: Mary O’Hara and Larry White
Last week, Mary O'Hara and Larry White, senior MR technicians at the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, redeployed to the main campus of MGH, where they are performing portable X-ray scans of COVID-19 patients in ICUs. Mary reported back with a harrowing and heartbreaking account of what...
Visualizing the Mind: How We See the Brain Through Functional MRI
Last year, Harvard College senior Kelsey Ichikawa (shown in the photo above) interviewed the Martinos Center’s Bruce Rosen and Bruce Fischl for a general audience article about functional MRI, which she was writing for a science journalism course. Earlier this year, the article won the Harvard Bo...
What’s Cooking at Martinos? Marco Makes Ragu
The Center's Marco Loggia is a highly accomplished researcher exploring the brain mechanisms of pain using functional MRI and PET. He is also one heckuva chef. In the video below, Marco shares one of his tantalizing recipes. He sent us this video along with an excellent suggestion: Especially ...
Martinos Responds: Don Straney and the Charlestown Face Shield Project
Don Straney isn't slowing down during the COVID-19 pandemic. A staff electrical engineer with the Martinos Center's human imaging core, Straney is volunteering with two different projects responding to the crisis. With the Charlestown Face Shield Project, he is forming face shield visors to donat...
Redeployment During the COVID-19 Pandemic
On Monday, April 6, as MGH prepared for the expected surge in COVID-19 patients, the hospital's leadership announced the likely redeployment of significant numbers of non-clinical workers. MGH had now entered the "all hands on deck" phase of the pandemic, where the need for additional support sta...
Matt Rosen and Colleagues’ Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants
In the waning months of 1979, the legendary Motown artist Stevie Wonder released an album called Stevie Wonder’s Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants," the soundtrack to the documentary film The Secret Life of Plants. Equal parts frustrating and strangely compelling, and notably using some ...
Wellness Resources
To offer support to its staff and researchers, Partners, MGH, and several other groups have put together resources that address the challenges we may be facing in our day-to-day lives as we handle this unique situation. Here, we compile those resources & information to make it easier for you ...
Martinos Researchers, NTP Students Producing PPE for Front Line Workers
The global COVID-19 pandemic has inspired countless instances of people banding together to help those on the front lines of the fight against the virus. Among the many examples is the MasksOn project, an already robust and rapidly expanding effort to address the shortage of personal protective e...
Tweets From the Front Lines
In the past few weeks, we've seen a shift in the Martinos Center's Twitter feed. Usually teeming with tweets about the latest research, upcoming conferences and occasionally the antics of someone's adorable dog, the feed is now, unsurprisingly, dominated by updates about COVID-19 and the medical ...
Shasha Li
Shasha Li, M.D., Ph.D., joined the faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) with the goal of improving the understanding of the physiological implications of altered neural networks in neurological diseases. She has made substantial contributions to the fie...
Randy Gollub Named Chair-Elect of OHBM, Floats Idea of Ska Band’s Return
The Martinos Center’s Randy Gollub has been elected to be the next Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), an international society launched by Center researchers a quarter century ago. She is delighted to be able to step into the role: not least because of the many “resonanc...