WALTHAM – Wendy Sun, an MD/PhD student in Biological & Biomedical Sciences at Harvard Medical School, supported by the PD Soros Fellowship, has been named the recipient of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s 2025 Information Technology Award.
The honor recognizes the development of an information technology tool that helps physicians practice medicine, teach medicine, or pursue clinical research.
The award is sponsored by Click Therapeutics, Inc., (“Click”), a leader in Digital Therapeutics™ as prescription medical treatments and comes with a $5,000 award.
The MMS Information Technology in Medicine Award has been presented annually since 2001 and many winners have seen their projects make indelible marks on science, medicine, and patient care.
Sun’s prize-winning project was “Guided Interpretation and Simplification Tool (GIST).”
She received her B.S. in Neuroscience from Yale University. Originally from China, Sun grew up in the Northern Virginia area and has been living in the northeast for the last decade. She is interested in systems neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and neurosurgery.
Click Therapeutics, Inc., develops, validates, and commercializes software as prescription medical treatments for people with unmet medical needs. As a leading innovator of Digital Therapeutics™, Click delivers accessible, clinically validated, FDA-regulated
prescription treatments to the smartphone in patients’ hands. The company’s treatments prioritize technical and scientific rigor as well as patient-centric design throughout the development process, which results in uniquely engaging experiences
that achieve compelling clinical outcomes for patients seeking new treatment options. Click Therapeutics is continuously expanding and refining its shared platform technologies with novel cognitive, behavioral and neuromodulatory mechanisms of
action and advanced data-driven tools such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Digital therapeutics under development on Click’s platform address diverse areas of therapeutic need, including indications in psychiatry, neurology, oncology,
immunology, and cardiometabolic diseases. For more information, visit www.clicktherapeutics.com.