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Biobot: Converting Sewers Into Public Health Observatories
February 27, 2020 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Biobot: Converting Sewers Into Public Health Observatories
Mariana Matus and Peter R Chai
As Biobot’s CEO & Cofounder, Mariana Matus leads technology and product development. During her PhD in computational biology at MIT, Mariana co-founded the MIT Underworlds Project: an interdisciplinary research collaboration between the Alm Lab and Senseable City Lab to study a city’s collective microbiome for public health insights. Through Underworlds, she worked closely with engineers, designers, chemists, virologists, and public health practitioners to develop methods and run proof-of-concept pilots in Cambridge, Boson, Kuwait City, and Seoul. Peter R Chai is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and affiliate research scholar at the Fenway Institute, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is interested in the development of technologies to measure changes in human health with a focus in medication adherence for HIV prevention and substance use disorders.