We offer complimentary recruiting assistance to investigators for studies and trials.

The CCTR assists investigators and their teams to connect the community in participant engagement and recruitment for your study/research trial. The complimentary CCTR recruitment service includes:

  • Advertising your COUHES/IRB approved recruitment materials on our website.
  • Available to internal and external research colleagues.
  • Study advertisement posted on the newly created MIT centralized study recruitment repository.
  • Complimentary service (no charge).

Learn more about how to access the complementary study recruitment service.

Advanced Prosthesis Study

PI/Study Coordinator
Hugh Herr, PhD

This research study seeks to explore amputee gait and the subjective experience of socket-based prosthesis use in comparison to someone with an experimental transfemoral amputation. Participants will control a powered knee prosthesis for three to five full-day sessions as data is collected. These findings will be used to develop a control system for an advanced robotic prosthesis. Click here to view the study recruitment poster (PDF).

Contact name
Tony Shu
Contact email
tonyshu [at] media.mit.edu
Contact phone
770-597-1197

Semi-Automated Determination of Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity

PI/Study Coordinator
Heldt, Thomas

Volunteer for a new study on measuring cerebral arterial blood flow. We need your help! We are conducting a study to measure blood flow in different vessels of the brain noninvasively. The study lasts about 90 minutes. No medications are needed. Subjects receive $100 for participating. Learn More (PDF)

Contact name
Thomas Heldt
Contact email
thomas [at] mit.edu
Contact phone
617-324-5005

MIT MAESTRO Study

PI/Study Coordinator
Michal “Mikki” Caspi Tal, PhD

Let’s Stop Lyme Disease in its Tracks! Join our study to help people suffering from Lyme. Our study aims to discover new ways to diagnose and better treat people that experience a wide range of symptoms after being infected with Lyme and Covid. Recruiting Volunteers: Healthy, Acute Lyme, Chronic Lyme, Long Covid

Contact name
Erin C. Sanders, MSN, WHNP-BC
Contact email
sanderse [at] mit.edu
Contact phone
203-815-4313

The impact of light, sound, and tactile stimulation on brain waves

PI/Study Coordinator
Li-Huei Tsai, PhD

The Tsai Lab at MIT is looking for healthy individuals, ages 25-65, to participate in a study looking at the impact of light, sound, and tactile stimulation on brain waves. You will complete some memory and cognitive tests, undergo an EEG recording, and complete up to 90 minutes of visual, auditory, or tactile stimulation.

Contact name
Gabrielle de Weck
Contact email
gdeweck [at] mit.edu
Contact phone
617-258-7723

Would you like to help others while you sleep?

PI/Study Coordinator
Ellen Roche, PhD

An MIT-led team is developing a device that could be a more comfortable treatment option for OSA patients and seeks volunteers for a small research study. Learn more about this study (PDF).

Contact name
Nevan Clancy, PhD
Contact email
osa-study [at] mit.edu
Contact phone
617-258-8541

XR Biofeedback in Sports Training

PI/Study Coordinator
Brian Anthony, PhD

Immersion Lab is looking for participants for its study "Immersive athlete-training technology and data-driven coaching support in fencing."

Contact name
Praneeth Namburi, PhD
Contact email
praneeth [at] mit.edu
Contact phone
857-445-8765