The Harvard Kavli Institute for Bionano Science & Technology (KIBST) is pleased to announce the
appointment of Dr. Anna Shneidman as their Managing Director, effective March 1, 2018.

Anna will introduce new initiatives to Harvard’s Kavli Institute, with a focus on establishing multidisciplinary collaborations among Harvard’s wide range of researchers. Anna will report directly to KIBST co-directors, Professors Joanna Aizenberg and George Whitesides.

Anna received her PhD in Chemical Physics at Harvard University in May 2016. She conducted her thesis work in...

A postdoctoral fellowship program has been established for quantum-bio projects at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft (KIND). KIND Postdoctoral Fellows are high-profile, two-year postdoctoral positions with significant independence and resources. The KIND Postdoctoral Fellows program is designed to attract the best and brightest young researchers in nanoscale science to Delft. Fellows will work in partnership with Delft faculty on a nanoscience project that involves both quantum and biological nanoscience research at KIND. Funds for running budget and travel will be available.
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Members of the Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology at Harvard are cordially ...

Friday April 21 st , 2:00-6:00 PM in Jefferson 250, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

The National Academy of Sciences announced today that it has received a $10.5 million gift from The Kavli Foundation to establish the Fred Kavli Endowment Fund, which honors the late physicist, entrepreneur, innovator, business leader, and philanthropist.  To recognize Kavli’s generous and unwavering support for science, the auditorium of the historic National Academy of Sciences Building will be renamed the Fred Kavli Auditorium.  A portrait of Fred Kavli and a commemorative plaque will be unveiled at the NAS annual meeting, which will take place April 29-May 2....

The Kavli Future Workshop / Nanomechanical Sensors conference will be held next month. It will be convened on the beautiful “big island” of Hawai’i, from 4-7 April. Abstracts and applications are still being accepted, and flights to Hawai’i remain cheap. Those interested can find out more on ...

Designing a soft robot to move organically — to bend like a finger or twist like a wrist — has always been a process of trial and error. Now, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology have developed a method to automatically design soft actuators based on the desired movement...

Implanted medical devices such as left ventricular-assist devices for patients with heart failure or other support systems for patients with respiratory, liver or other end organ disease save lives every day. However, bacteria that form infectious biofilms on those devices, called device-associated infections, not only often sabotage their success but also contribute to the rampant increase in antibiotic resistance currently seen in hospitals....