Kaulenas Lecture with Martha Gray
Martha Gray, Director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering at MIT, will speak on "Functional and Molecular Imaging of Cartilage: from Bench to Bedside."
Martha Gray’s research centers on ways to diagnose and treat cartilage degeneration (arthritis). Most recently, she and her group created a nondestructive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method for assessing cartilage, now being used by many in industry and academia to provide a window into how disease and therapeutic strategies affect cartilage tissue per se. It offers an alternative to radiography that is particularly valuable for early diagnosis and therapy.
In addition to shepherding the vigorous growth of HST, Professor Gray has established several major new research and educational programs. She initiated, with colleagues at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, a Biomedical Enterprise Program to bring future business leaders into the same room as HST’s scientists engineers and physicians. In partnership with local teaching hospitals (Massachusetts General Hospital, Children’s Hospital, Boston and Brigham and Women’s Hospital), she championed the creation of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, and programs in Biomedical Informatics and Bio-micro-electrical systems (BioMEMs) — each involving faculty and training students from Harvard and MIT.
The Kaulenas Lecture honors Mindaugas (Steve) Kaulenas, whose contributions to the university spanned thirty-five years, 1967-2002. As chair first of the Zoology and later of the Biology department for thirteen years, he was an active researcher and enthusiastic lecturer focusing on developmental biology and the biology of aging.
To donate to the Kaulenas Lecture fund, please contact Laurie Benoit, Director of Development, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, phone: (413) 577-4712; email: lbenoit@nsm.umass.edu.
