The HST Founders' Fund (formerly the Irving M. London Society for Student Support)
HST currently enrolls more than 400 students who immerse themselves in interdisciplinary curricula and conduct research with faculty from throughout the Harvard and MIT communities, their affiliated hospitals and research centers.
In 2000-2001, the Irving M. London Society was created to honor HST's founder and to provide a new source of revenue for the program. Since its inception, London Society funds have been used to support student research. In its first three years, this fund tripled the unrestricted dollars available to HST and increased the number of unrestricted donors nearly five-fold.
In April 2009 a wonderful ceremony was held to rename the HST Society at HMS to the Irving M. London Society of Health Sciences and Technology. In order to avoid confusion, the Irving M. London Society for giving has been renamed to the HST Founders' Fund. We believe that the new name still honors the Division's founders, to whom we will forever be grateful.
HST has a tradition as long as its history of named expendable and endowed funds for student support. We are dedicated to expanding the number of these funds, at levels ranging from $200,000-$800,000.
