Through live demonstrations, patient stories, roundtable discussions, highly-anticipated prizes and more, Discover Brigham 2018 captivated and inspired an audience of hundreds of people, including members of the Brigham community and the general public. If you were unable to attend — or if you want to revisit highlights from this year’s event — check out CRN’s coverage below. Be sure to click on images to read on and explore.

Discoveries & Demonstrations Delight Visitors

Discover Brigham kicked off with live demos allowing visitors to dive into virtual reality, connect with nurses about their innovative work, relax with workplace yoga and more.

Click the photos below to read more about each demo:

Mechanical circulatory Support: Ventricular assist devices (VADs) can extend survival and let patients with very severe heart diseases live a normal life
DICOM VR: clinicians are developing virtual reality tech for image-guided cancer treatment.
Cystectomy Prehabilitation: Exercises before surgery may help patients with recovery
ED Patient Navigator: this pilot helps connect programs with high risk,, vulnerable and difficult to reach patients
Zebrafish: guests peer through a microscope at zebrafish during development
Yoga: Understanding the Underlying Science
Stop the Bleed: Attendees learned bleeding control skills via tourniquet application, wound packing and pressure application.

 Roundtables Discussions Plunge into Ethics, Advancements in Biomedicine

Researchers, innovators, journalists, collaborators and patients shared insights on topics ranging from weight loss strategies to confronting opioid addiction to fighting cancer. Panelists and audience members took on tough questions around ethics, privacy and disparities in genomic medicine. A patient shared his life-changing experience of receiving a lung transplant made possible for Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion. A preeminent expert on sleep shared evidence-based tips on how to sleep better at night. A request for important research considerations at the gender-informed medicine session yielded a wall full of audience responses. Click here to catch these moments and more, highlighted by CRN’s staff.

Boning Up on the Connection Between Muscle and Bone
Human Models to Study Human Diseases
Long Live the Lung
Successful Innovation
All of Us
Sleep Well, Live Well
Experts Weigh In
No Wrong Door
Trauma and Violence
Cancer in the Cross Hairs
Women are Not Men

Posters Showcase Breadth, Depth of Brigham Research

The Discover Brigham Poster Session highlighted the research of Brigham’s early-career investigators. The research presented in the posters spanned many disciplines and departments and reflects the spirit of innovation and collaboration at the Brigham.

Poster sessions
20171109, Thursday, November 9, 2017, Boston, MA, USA, Brigham Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Brigham Research Institute held their third annual Discover Brigham day-long campus-wide research day event on Thursday November 9, 2017. Announced during the Awards Ceremony Neurologist Ellen Bubrick, MD, of the Division of Epilepsy, captured the $100,000 BRIght Futures Prize with her research project titled “Break The Shake: Ultrasound Treatment for Epilepsy” ( 2017 © lightchaser photography )

Bountiful Awards for Bold Research

During a mid-afternoon “open mic” pitch session and at an awards ceremony capping off the day, bold and innovative ideas in biomedicine were honored with prizes. Click here to find out more about winners whose prizes ranged from $1,000 to $500,000 and about projects that aim to shape the future of medicine.