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Harvard engineers have developed Mobilio, a smartphone app that uses AI, built-in sensors, and personalized audio beeps to give users with blindness or low vision continuous guidance and obstacle avoidance. Ph.D. student Raymond Liu led the research in collaboration with Patrick Slade, assistant professor of bioengineering at John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and associate faculty member of the Kempner Institute. The Harvard Grid Accelerator supported the research.

A research team out of Kit Parker’s lab at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has developed a way to create customizable synthetic blood vessel grafts in minutes using a focused rotary jet spinning technology. The research has the potential to make time-sensitive medical treatments faster and more personalized.

Attivare, a startup advancing a portfolio of technologies developed at the Wyss Institute, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital, has shown promising results in cancer clinical trials and is developing a malaria vaccine. Through decades of innovation and cross-disciplinary collaboration, the technology has the potential to fight cancer more effectively or prevent pathogen-related infections. 

A Harvard-led team synthesized 64 distinct DNA sequences on a silicon chip in parallel – not by using the solvent-heavy chemistry that dominates custom DNA manufacturing today, but through a water-based enzymatic process. The research was led by Donhee Ham, the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.