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...made this $100 million bet, then a $200 million dollar bet,” said Broad, a well-known philanthropist whose net worth is just under $6 billion, according to Forbes magazine. “Now we’re making a $600 million dollar bet that this will be the place in the world where the greatest scientific discoveries will take place...
...have made a lot of investments, but the investment to the broad institute is the largest investment we’ve made and it has yielded great results," Broad added...
...Since the genomic powerhouse was created several years ago, Broad said that it has grown to include a community of more than 1,200 of scientists from across MIT, Harvard, and Harvard's 17 affiliated teaching hospitals. The Kendall Square-based institute also currently has 330,000 square feet of laboratory space...
...Experts say that the establishment of the Broad Institute has caused a spike in genomic and psychiatric research, with Broad-affiliated researchers having published some 350 scientific papers over the past four years...
...institute has also been very successful at reeling in research grants, as it has won over 40 percent of the grants it has applied for, according to Broad. Reflecting this success, Broad researchers announced just this week that they had received a six-year $86 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support research to identify and develop molecular tools to signal pathways and cellular processes crucial to human health and disease...