Tyler Clites, S.B. ’14 (engineering sciences – biomedical engineering) has been honored with the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The annual prize honors promising collegiate inventors.
Clites, a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, received the $15,000 prize for his portfolio of inventive work, including the Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI) system, a new surgical method he developed that enables bi-directional communication between the human nervous system and external bionic devices.
Read more in this MIT news article.
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