About HST

The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) brings together the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard Medical School (HMS), Harvard University, the Boston area teaching hospitals and an assortment of research centers in a unique collaboration that integrates science, medicine and engineering to solve problems in human health.

Over 400 graduate students of science, medicine, engineering and management take their training side by side at HST. And HST's more than 60 full-time faculty members and 200 affiliates guide these students into vibrant careers as medical pioneers.

Our interdisciplinary approach to biomedicine leads to stunning innovations, such as the drug regimen that transformed HIV/AIDS into a treatable disease and the only noninvasive technology for observing the brain in action. These accomplishments are but a few of the many examples of how HST's unique culture drives progress from the laboratory bench to the patient's bedside.