The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

Probing Enzyme Activity with Nanosensors

Using MIT ingenuity to create knowledge, tools, and treatments to fight cancer

How We Do It 

Our Research Areas

From fundamental discoveries to engineering advances, we strategically pursue five areas of research that, across tumor types, are critical for rapid progress toward defeating cancer.

Detection & monitoring  
Metastasis  
Immunology & immunotherapy  
Nano-based drugs  
Precision medicine  

News

Nancy Hopkins to receive 2024 Public Welfare Medal 

MIT Koch Institute

January 24, 2024

Congratulations to Nancy Hopkins, who will receive the prestigious the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal for “her courageous leadership over three decades to create and ensure equal opportunity for women in science.”  The medal is the Academy’s most prestigious award, established in 1914 and presented annually to honor extraordinary use of science for the public good.

Towards More Sensitive Liquid Biopsies

MIT News

A collaboration between Sangeeta Bhatia, Chris Love, and their Broad Institute colleague Viktor Adalsteinsson could improve the sensitivity of liquid biopsies used to detect, monitor, and guide treatment of tumors.

Paula Hammond, 2024 Franklin Institute Awards Laureate

Franklin Institute

Paula Hammond wins the 2024 Franklin Medal in Chemistry for her "innovative methods to create novel materials one molecular layer at a time, and for applying these materials to areas ranging from drug delivery to energy storage."

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At the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, scientists and engineers work come together to solve some of the most difficult problems in cancer. We ask big questions in strategic areas, where the answers have big impacts on how we understand and treat cancer.