News

Prof. Yanik receives SNSF Bridge Discovery grant for translation of our non-invasive focal brain drug delivery technology (which was funded initially by ERC consolidator) to clinic with the teams of neurosurgeon Dr. Med. Michael Hugelshofer of UZH and veterinarian head Dr. Med. Henning Richter of Tierspital.

Our paper "Deep-learning-based identification, tracking, pose estimation and behaviour classification of interacting primates and mice in complex environments" is published in external pageNature Machine Intelligence and the cover of April 2022 issue!

An international and multi-disciplinary team of researchers, clinicians, and data scientists, led by Dr. Nazarian, aims to improve treatment for children with aggressive brain tumors has been awarded a Sinergia grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The new Sinergia consortium incorporates the ETH Neurotechnology Group, Children's Hospital in Zurich and a group in Norway, and has received CHF 3.1 million for their interdisciplinary and collaborative research project on harnessing novel technologies for precision medicine in pediatric diffuse midline glioma. external pagehttps://www.med.uio.no/ncmm/english/news-and-events/news/2020/international-consortium-receives-funding-from-the.html, December 2020.

We congratulate Dr. Mehmet Özdaş for receiving ETH Medal for his PhD thesis "Millimeter Precision Non-invasive Targeted Drug Delivery to Brain" .

Our paper "Non-invasive molecularly-specific millimeter-resolution manipulation of brain circuits by ultrasound-mediated aggregation and uncaging of drug carriers" is published in external pageNature Communications. See also related news in the external pageScience Magazine and external pageNature Communications Highlights, October 2020.

Our paper "Engineering brain activity patterns by neuromodulator polytherapy for treatment of disorders" is published in external pageNature Communications. See "Nature Editors’ Highlight: external pageFrom Brain to Behaviour", 2019

ETH Zurich's Globe Magazine recently covered our work.https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2019/06/brain-stimulation.html, 2019
Ongoing Quantum Electron Microscopy project: http://www.rle.mit.edu/qem/, 2019
Interview of Professor Mehmet Fatih Yanik at Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. external pagehttp://symposium.cshlp.org/content/83/290.full, 2019

Prof. Yanik received ERC Consolidator Award.https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2018/11/pr-erc-consolidator-grants.html, November, 2018
Prof. Yanik was interviewed by Cell Reports at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories Sysmposium, Brains & Behavior: Order & Disorder in the Nervous System, June 2018. Link: external pagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rETaO0L-AhU
Our recent paper "Brain activity patterns in high-throughput electrophysiology screen predict both drug efficacies and side effects" was highlighted by ETH Zurich, January, 2015

Our pending external pagePATENT on mRNA reprogramming is now external pagelicensed by STEMGENT INC.

external page"Mass-screening of drug candidates on tiny animals", The Economist, Nov 2010.
"external pageWorm surgery ona chip", Nature, Oct 2010.
"High throughput laser neurosurgery screening of Caenorhabditis elegans", Nature Science-Business eXchange, Oct 2010.
"external pageMicrochip technology rapidly identifies compounds for regrowing nerves, in live animals", MIT Front Page News, Oct 2010.

Prof. Yanik is awarded NIH Director's Innovator Award, 2007.
“Boston young investigators take home big NIH prizes”, Nature Boston, Sept. 19th , 2007.
“Boston dominates NIH grants to innovators”, Boston Globe, Sept. 18th , 2007.
“NIH Director Invests in Innovation, New Investigators”, NIH News, Sept. 18th , 2007
“A chip full of worms”, Nature Boston, Oct. 23rd , 2007.
“New microfluidic devices sort and screen small animals.” Analytical Chemistry, American Chemical Society, Nov. 1st, 2007.
“Automated, 3-D, submicron-resolution imaging of C. elegans” Biophotonics International, Nov 2007.
“Worms and the Human Brain”, Technology Review, Sept. 14th, 2007.
MIT invents 'lab on a chip' to automate whole-animal genetic and drug screens, 2007.
"Worm research hits the fast lane", Bioscience Technology, Dec. 07, 2007.
Prof. Yanik is selected "One of world’s top 35 innovators under age 35" by Technology Review Magazine, 2007 http://www.trblogs.com/tr35/

external pageDr. Yanik joins MIT faculty, 2006.
"Lone Neuron Cut", Scientific American Mind, April/May 23rd, 2005.
external page"Micro scalpel offers unprecedented precision", New Scientist, March 2005.
"Laser Nanosurgery on a Worm", Biophotonics International, January 2005.
"A Snip in Time May Save Lives: Laser-Cut Nerves Regenerate", Photonics Spectra, January 2005.

"How to Freeze Light in a Computer Chip", The Economist, March 2004.
"Linear Optics Slow, Stop and Time Reverse Light", Laser Focus World, January 2005.
"Light arrested in semiconductor forest", Nature, March 2004.
"Light Storing Chip Charted", Cover story on Technology Research News Magazine, February 2004.
"Stop Light on a Chip", Cover story on Physical Review Focus Magazine, February 2004.
"Bringing Light to Heel", Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, 2005.
"Scientists Discover way to capture light on silicon chips",Stanford News, March 10th, 2004.
"Stanford team invents scheme for stopping light on chip", IEEE Editorial, May 2004.
"Top Technology Research Advances of 2004", Technology Research News Magazine, 2004.
"Scheme reverses light pulses", Technology Research News Magazine, April 6th/13th, 2005.
"Switch Promises Optical Chips", Technology Research News Magazine, MIT Technology Review, November 2003.
"MEMS-Tunable Photonic-Crystal Structure Allows for Highly Sensitive Optical Filters and Sensors", Materials Research Society News, May 2003