MD-PhD student Ronak Desai traces his path from the small town of Lindale, Texas, to the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology - HST Program. His interest in medicine developed while shadowing physicians in primary care and at a local hospital. “I was frustrated when we couldn’t give patients options, and I knew research was the answer to that,” he said. Now training to become a physician-scientist, his work focuses on using AI to find antibiotics for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which cause

A month before starting medical school, Claire Brown was diagnosed with cancer. The MD-PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology - HST Program was already passionate about cancer research. Living through the disease underscored the importance of the work. “I would really like to actually take an idea all the way from its inception to bringing it into the actual clinic and seeing it change people’s lives,” Brown said. Brown looks forward to spending more time in the hospital a