Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

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 and 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 communitiesref|hst.mit.edu.99.

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 optionsref|hst.mit.edu.100:
* Biomedical Sciences MD
* Medical Engineering and Medical Physics Concentrations (MEMP) include:
** Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG)ref|hst.mit.edu.101
** 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 Technologyref|hst.mit.edu.102
* Radiological Sciences Joint Program
* Biomedical Enterprise Program (BEP)ref|hst.mit.edu.103
* Biomedical Informatics
* Clinical Investigator Training Program
* Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering

Notable alumni

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

Notable faculty

* Robert Langer
* Mehmet Toner

References

# cite web | title= HST Faculty | url=http://hst.harvard.edu/public/people/ | accessdate=February 23 | accessyear=2006
# cite web | title= HST Academic Programs | url=http://hst.mit.edu/public/academics/ | accessdate=February 23 | accessyear=2006
# cite web | title= HST Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) | url=http://big.chip.org/ | accessdate=February 23 | accessyear=2006
# cite web | title= HST Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology (SHBT) | url=http://web.mit.edu/shbt/ | accessdate=February 23 | accessyear=2006
# cite web | title= HST Biomedical Enterprise Program (BEP) | url=http://bep.mit.edu/ | accessdate=February 23 | accessyear=2006

External links

* [http://hst.mit.edu/ Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology] (official web site)
* [http://hst.harvard.edu/public/newsevents/ HST News & Events]
* [http://hst.mit.edu/twihst This Week in HST] (TWiHST)


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