#  Team Winner of MIT-MBG Seed Grant!  

 





Here's to live-saving diagnostics!



 

January 07, 2026

 

 

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A new collaborative project between between Tim Swager at MIT, Dr. Stella Lee at Mass General Brigham (MGB), and our lab recently was one of the winners of the the Inaugural [MIT-MGB Seed Grant](https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-mass-general-brigham-launch-seed-program-innovations-health-0627). The mission is twofold: first, to create a quantitative test for the sense of smell, and second to create a implantable integrated device that can aid in smelling for patients who have lost it for various reasons (COVID, aging, etc.). A year ago we just [published on our vision](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11948017/) of how we can learn from biology to create better electronic noses, and here we are securing funds to do exactly that in the pursuit of better patient care.

   ![BIONIC Nose Team](/sites/g/files/omnuum6296/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2026-02/BIONIC%20Nose%20Team%202026.jpeg?itok=03Js4sez) 

 

Pictured, from left to right: Dr. Stella Lee (Principle Investigator, MGB), Dr. Timothy Swager (Principle Investigator, MIT), Haritosh Patel (Scientific Lead from Aizenberg Group, Harvard), and Noah Braunstein (Research Scientist in Lee Group)

 

 

 



 

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