Student Spotlights | Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology

Becoming a physician-scientist: How personal and family health struggles shaped the career of HST MD grad Sam Finlayson

Finlayson had two main goals when it came to pursuing a career in medicine: first, to be an engineer who could help advance medical capabilities through lifesaving technology; and, second, to be a physician who could embrace uncertainty while working on behalf of his patients and their families.

HST MEMP grad Claudia Varela sees both dance and bioengineering as tools for social change

Varela is interested in creating medical devices that will help us study and address healthcare disparities

The promise of regeneration

HMS grad Jennifer Cloutier has a habit of pushing limits

How consequential life grew from dying heart

Childhood transplant gave Jon Hochstein a second chance, guides his next steps to Boston Children's

Three with MIT ties, including an HST student, win 2022 Churchill Scholarships

HST student James Diao, and seniors David Darrow and Tara Venkatadri, and will pursue master’s programs at Cambridge University.