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HST faculty member and pioneering biomedical engineer Robert Langer has been awarded the National Medal of Science.

Crossing boundaries... pioneering therapies Our faculty, who are appointed to HST through Harvard or MIT, have diverse research interests but share a key trait: they are fluent in multiple languages. In our unique intellectual community, the languages of medicine, engineering, and the life sciences merge and evolve to unlock biomedical innovations. HST provides an environment where unorthodox avenues of inquiry can be embraced, enabling breakthrough solutions to some of the most intractable challenges to human health. Find an investigator: Alphabetical By institution/center By research area By research approach Members of the HST community - students, faculty and staff - are required to adhere to standards outlined in the HST Credo of Professionalism.

Emery N. Brown, an HST faculty member who is an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a computational neuroscientist at MIT, is applying the tools of systems neuroscience to the question of how anesthesia works. HST creates an environment where this kind of multi-disciplinary, innovative research is both possible and probable. More... Photo: Donna Coveney