By recommendation of the CIO, The Research Information Technology Group (RITG) was founded in July 2003 by the Information Technology department to support research computing on the Quad that falls beyond the scope of local system administrators or the existing HMS IT department's desktop support.

Besides providing direct research IT support to the Department of Systems Biology and augmenting research IT support on the Quad, RITG works with other departmental administrators to pool resources, efforts, and expertise. Our goal is to foster collaboration within the community of systems administrators at HMS to share knowledge and establish common best practices.