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The Yang Tan Collective accelerates collaboration in basic science, research, and engineering to realize translative strategies and technologies that achieve a healthy mind in a healthy body and improve human wellbeing at a global scale. yangtan.mit.edu
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Hugh Herr speaks with Tilly Lockey on her Open Bionics
podcast “Tilly Talks Tech” about his lived experiences and personal journey, his research and vision for the future of human augmentation, and about the beauty of human diversity.
He Lost His Legs — Then Revolutionised Bionics | Hugh Herr on Tilly Talks Tech!
YouTube video by Open Bionics
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(1/4) A new Tan-Yang Center for Autism Research study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders from researchers identifies the top ways workplaces can be made more inclusive for autistic employees.

Nonprofit org Neurodiversity in the Workplace also supported the study.
(2/2) These grants support interdisciplinary MIT teams focused on transformative ideas, technologies, and collaborations that break traditional boundaries to advance discovery in health and the life sciences.

Read more about the grant and all the funded projects: heals.mit.edu/mit-heals-se...
MIT HEALS Seed Grant Call for Applications – MIT HEALS
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(1/2) Congratulations to the Yang Tan Collective faculty for winning inaugural MIT Health and Life Sciences (HEALS) Seed Grants!
In this talk at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, ICoN Center director Ila Fiete dives into how the brain builds modular, high-capacity memory systems using structured neural scaffolds.

Listen now on YouTube:
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The Emergence Of Modular Structure by Ila Fiete
YouTube video by International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
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(1/2) @sarthakc.bsky.social, from the lab of Ila Fiete, studies grid cells – “the GPS of the brain”.

Explore his research & findings with this snapshot of the work and papers he and his team worked on:
Full house at @harvardmed.bsky.social for today’s Brain Body Dialogues symposium — exploring connections between brain and body in health & disease.
Can a self-guided meditation app be just as helpful in managing stress and anxiety as in-person mindfulness-based interventions in autistic adults? Researchers in the Tan-Yang Center for Autism Research at MIT sought to answer this question in new research published in the journal “Mindfulness.”
Mindfulness app helps reduce anxiety and stress in autistic adults, study finds
New research indicates that a six-week self-guided mindfulness app helped autistic adults experience meaningful reductions in anxiety, stress, and negative emotions. The improvements remained stable e...
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Congratulations to Chris Shallal, PhD student at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology & Yang Center for Bionics, for being named an inaugural MIT Health and Life Sciences (HEALS) Graduate Fellow!

Image Credit: MIT Media Lab
Congratulations to Nidhi Seethapathi, a faculty member in the Yang ICoN Center, who is featured in MIT Technology Review 2025 class of “Innovators Under 35”! We can’t wait to see how her research will impact the world.
In Nov last year, we published a predictive theory of locomotor adaptation to novel environments, capturing learning and generalization phenomena in over ten experiments:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm honored to be featured on the 2025 Innovators Under 35 list for this work.
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Meet Emily Robinson, our newest Yang Brain-Body Fellow. An MIT Biology PhD student, she’s decoding how the vagus nerve senses inflammation.

In this image from her research, vagus neurons (blue) light up the carotid sinus—your body’s hypoxia alarm system.