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...Broad Institute hopes to leverage its large size to its advantage, mining vast amounts of genetic data in the hopes of finding useful medical applications...
Harold E. Varmus, former director of the National Institute of Health, said that there were other similar efforts, including Stanford’s “Bio-X” interdisciplinary science center, but that the Broad collaboration was a powerful...
Summers said that the strength of the Broad Institute will be its parent institutions...
...Broad Institute will be located near Whitehead and MIT in Cambridge’s Kendall Square neighborhood, an area seeded with biotechnology firms. The institute will have 15 associated faculty members when it is launched later this year, and Lander will be appointed to the HMS faculty at that time...
Lander and the institute faculty will develop its research priorities, but will ultimately report to an executive committee consisting of Summers, MIT President Charles M. Vest and Eli Broad, who is currently chair of financial services giant AIG SunAmerica...