Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
One of the largest biomedical and physician scientist training programs in the U.S., the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) is a collaborative research enterprise aimed at creating cost-effective preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic innovations. By preserving a balance among science, engineering, and medicine, HST investigators explore the fundamental principles underlying disease, and discover new pharmaceuticals and devices to lighten human suffering.
HST’s priorities for the coming years include:
- student support—as, currently, HST enrolls more than 400 students;
- faculty support—since, right now, many faculty members volunteer their time because of their commitment to the program’s extraordinary students, and despite the lack of funding to retain them;
- research support—especially in the areas of structural and functional biomedical imaging, bioinformatics and integrative biology, and regenerative and functional biomedical technologies; and
- educational innovation—including BioMatrix, a mentorship program, and the Biomedical Enterprise Program (BEP), a joint effort between HST and the MIT Sloan School of Management that prepares students to enter the business world ready to evaluate, develop, and commercialize products for the health care industry.
Endowed and expendable funds are needed to sustain and maintain HST. One meaningful way to make an impact is to direct your contribution to the Irving M. London Society, which supports student research in HST. Gifts may be earmarked to help those students who need it most, or allocated to the M.D. or Ph.D. Student Research Funds, or to the Biomedical Enterprise Program (BEP) Fund, all of which are specifically targeted to those groups. Whichever fund you choose, you will be recognized in HST publications as a member of the Irving M. London Society.
To discuss a gift in support of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, please contact Pamela McGill, HST resource development office manager, at pkmcgill@mit.edu or 617.253.1554.
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