Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Founded in 1970, the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, or HST, is one of the oldest and largest biomedical engineering and physician-scientist training programs in the United States and the longest-standing functional collaboration between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

HST's unique interdisciplinary educational program brings engineering as well as the physical and biological sciences from the scientist's bench to the patient's bedside. Conversely, it brings clinical insight from the patient's bedside to the laboratory bench. In this way, HST students are trained to have deep understanding of engineering, physical sciences, and the biological sciences, complemented with hands-on experience in the clinic or in industry; and they become conversant with the underlying quantitative and molecular aspects of medicine and biomedical science. Within the division, more than 400 graduate students work with eminent faculty and affiliated faculty members from throughout the MIT and Harvard communities^[1]. HST is also the home of the Laboratory of Computational Physiology (LCP) which hosts the MIMIC II database and PhysioNet.

In addition to its outstanding record of accomplishment for research in human health care, HST educational programs are distinguished by three key elements:

• A strong quantitative orientation
• Required hands-on experience in a clinical or industry setting
• A focused interdisciplinary research project

HST offers eight multidisciplinary graduate degree options^[2]:

• Biomedical Sciences MD
• Medical Engineering and Medical Physics Concentrations (MEMP) include:
  • Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG)^[3]
  • Biomedical imaging and bio-optics
  • Cellular and molecular bioengineering/biophysics
  • Biomechanics and biofluidics
  • Systems physiology
  • Bioinstrumentation and devices
  • Regenerative biomedical technologies
  • Bioastronautics
• Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology^[4]
• Radiological Sciences Joint Program
• Biomedical Enterprise Program (BEP)^[5]
• Biomedical Informatics
• Clinical Investigator Training Program
• Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering

Notable alumni

• David Ho
• Mark McClellan
• Peter Diamandis
• Robert Satcher

Notable faculty

• Martha Gray Pereli, Previous Director, first female director of a science/engineering department at MIT.
• Ram Sasisekharan, Director, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (http://hst.mit.edu/public/people/faculty/facultyBiosketch.jsp?key=Sasisekharan)
• Robert Langer, Institute Professor, MIT (http://web.mit.edu/langerlab/langer.html)
• Mehmet Toner, Professor (http://hst.mit.edu/public/people/faculty/facultyBiosketch.jsp?key=Toner)
• George Church, Professor (http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/)
• Roger Mark, Professor (http://hst.mit.edu/public/people/faculty/facultyBiosketch.jsp?key=Mark)
• Elazer Edelman, Professor (http://web.mit.edu/hst-program/erelab/)

References

1. ^ "HST Faculty". http://hst.harvard.edu/public/people/. Retrieved February 23, 2006. 
2. ^ "HST Academic Programs". http://hst.mit.edu/public/academics/. Retrieved February 23, 2006. 
3. ^ "HST Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG)". http://big.chip.org/. Retrieved February 23, 2006. 
4. ^ "HST Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology (SHBT)". http://web.mit.edu/shbt/. Retrieved February 23, 2006. 
5. ^ "HST Biomedical Enterprise Program (BEP)". http://bep.mit.edu/. Retrieved February 23, 2006. 

External links

• Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (official web site)
• HST News & Events
• This Week in HST (TWiHST)
• PhysioNet
• LCP