免疫学博士学位课程对科学家进行研究和学术医学教育，使他们充分了解免疫学的潜在影响，为免疫学研究做出贡献。该计划结合了基础生物学的教育，免疫学的高级培训以及对疾病的免疫学和非免疫学问题的了解。它已成为一门不断发展的学科的综合教育计划的典范，该学科现已涵盖医学生物学的多个经典领域（例如，微生物学，遗传学，病理学，临床医学和生物化学）。该计划由哈佛大学免疫学委员会监督，该委员会包括110多名代表广泛研究兴趣的教职人员，包括移植，神经免疫学，自身免疫，干细胞生物学，感染和免疫，人类转化免疫学，肿瘤免疫学，免疫生物
The purpose of the Immunology Program is to provide education leading to a Ph.D. in Immunology. This Program is under the responsibility of the Committee on Immunology at Harvard. The Committee includes over 135 faculty representing a broad area of research interests including transplantation, neuro-immunology, autoimmunity, stem cell biology, infection and immunity, human translational immunology, tumor immunology, immunobiology and mucosal immunity. The PhD Program in Immunology educates scientists in investigative and academic medicine, preparing them to contribute to immunological research with a full awareness of the potential impact of immunology. The program combines an education in basic biology, a sophisticated training in immunology, and exposure to the immunological and non-immunological problems of disease. It has become the model of an integrated educational program in a growing discipline that now spans several of the classical fields of medical biology (microbiology, genetics, pathology, clinical medicine, and biochemistry, for example).