MIT’s new Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) is tackling some of the world’s biggest health challenges through an interdisciplinary approach that will seek new ways to diagnose and treat infectious, neurological and cardiovascular diseases. The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) is cited. Emery Brown, the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia, and Bruce Walker, HMS professor of medicine, both of Massachusetts General Hospital, are quoted.