健康科学与技术（HST）是一个与信息技术一起努力培育为未来增长产业的领域。尽管KAIST的几个部门一直致力于最先进的HST和先进的研究技能，但这些努力不足以创造新的价值或提出探索新市场的愿景。KIHST旨在通过医学和工程学的结合开发新的高影响力技术，并为未来的健康市场提供新的平台。为了实现这一目标，生物光子学，神经成像和神经调节以及Therpeutic Bioengineering被设定为核心竞争力，以建立基础设施，可以整合KAIST多学科部门的研发工作组，以获得协同结果。此外，还将进行转化医学工程，以帮助开发和应用反映医学领域实际需求的实用健康技术。
该研究中心的主要研究高亮领域有开发高性能3D微脉管成像系统，全息显微镜提高其应用，活体小鼠深层组织成像中的深度增强方法，活小肠收缩乳酸的发现，用于肠道脂质吸收过程的实时高分辨率成像技术开发，单次心跳内的超高速冠状动脉内成像，抗癌药物均匀地输送到整个肿瘤的高效抗癌纳米技术，使用超材料扭曲宽带波长的光，通过纳米粒子散射开发实时纳米成像，基于超短飞秒激光器的超精密光子学研究等等。
Health Sciences and Technology (HST) is a field that works with information technology to nurture industries for future growth. Although several departments of KAIST have been working on state-of-the-art HST and advanced research skills, these efforts are not enough to create new value or come up with a vision to explore new markets. KIHST aims to develop new high-impact technologies through the combination of medicine and engineering and provide a new platform for the future health market. To achieve this, biophotonics, neuroimaging and neuromodulation and Therpeutic Bioengineering are set as core competencies to establish an infrastructure that can integrate the R&D working groups of KAIST's multidisciplinary departments for synergistic results. In addition, translational medicine engineering will be carried out to help develop and apply practical health technologies that reflect the real needs of the medical field.
The main research areas of the research center include the development of high-performance 3D microvasculature imaging systems, holographic microscopes to improve their application, depth enhancement methods in deep tissue imaging of living mice, the discovery of systolic lactic acid in the living small intestine, the development of real-time high-resolution imaging technology for intestinal lipid absorption processes, ultra-high-speed intracoronary imaging in a single heartbeat, high-efficiency anti-cancer nanotechnology for uniform delivery of anticancer drugs to the entire tumor, the use of metamaterials to distort broadband wavelengths of light, and the development of real-time nanoimaging through nanoparticle scattering , ultra-precision photonics research based on ultra-short femtosecond lasers, etc.