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Li-Huei Tsai
Tsai directs the Picower Institute and studies the cellular basis of Alzheimer's disease, including APOE4 effects on myelin and microglia. Her laboratory developed gamma frequency light and sound stimulation that clears amyloid in mice, a finding now being tested in human clinical trials through academic and industry collaborations.
Polina Anikeeva
Anikeeva heads MIT materials science and directs the K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center, building flexible fibres and magnetic nanomaterials that record and modulate neural circuits without wires. Her cross disciplinary teams link materials engineering, neuroscience and gut-brain biology, producing tools now shared with laboratories studying pain, appetite and neurological disease.
Michel Goemans
Goemans heads the MIT Department of Mathematics and works on combinatorial optimisation and approximation algorithms. His semidefinite programming methods underpin modern approaches to network design, scheduling and matching problems used across computing and operations research, and he trains doctoral students who carry these techniques into industry and other universities.