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With the full human genome sequenced, research at the Broad Institute will attempt to use the genetic data to better understand and treat the cellular mechanisms underlying disease, rather than just its symptoms, Lander explained...
University President Lawrence H. Summers said that the strength of the Broad Institute will be its parent institutions. “I am convinced that there is no other city in the world with as many extraordinary scientists at every level...prepared to work on biomedical problems,” Summers said...
...Broad donation is not an endowment: it is earmarked to directly fund research over the next decade. It is also unusual in that Eli Broad—chair of financial service giant AIG SunAmerica and a noted philanthropist who helped fund the Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles—has no prior connection to MIT or Harvard...
...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. Lander will be appointed to the faculty of HMS at that time...
...argued for the need for more “big science”—large-scale, well-funded ventures such as what the Broad Institute will become...