Alumni Spotlights

HST MEMP alum Lina Colucci shares her journey founding a company following the advice of IDEO founder David Kelley to "work with your friends"

A leader in Informatics, an HST grad, and creator of Harvard Catalyst Profiles, discusses his innovative work to make COVID-19 research data available to the world.

One of the most consequential lessons Dr. Daniel Chonde, an HST Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (MEMP), and HST MD graduate, and a third-year resident in radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, learned as an undergraduate at MIT was about attitude.

Jeff Behrens, course director for HST 590, has founded a few start-ups in his time, and has also studied the obstacles to starting and funding successful biotech companies as part of his doctoral research. “In tech, it is common for first-time entrepreneurs to launch companies and raise significant capital; however, in life sciences this is much more rare,” he says. “And I wanted to learn, why is that?”

Mark D. Price’s colleagues will tell you that he is a top-notch guy—a stellar student who earned both MD and Ph.D. degrees from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program (HST) and an all-around fascinating human being who is a Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves, received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in combat operations in Afghanistan, and in the past year became the Head Team Physician and Medical Director for the New England Patriots.