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To encourage this collaboration, the institute set up “core facilities” to provide technology and equipment that is “beyond the means of most individual labs,” according to its Web site.
Seeking to address this lack of collaboration, the University created the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in 2004 as an attempt to bridge the gap between basic and applied life sciences, as well as to address the social, ethical, and religious issues raised by stem cell research.
Although the report laments the broader lack of collaboration, it repeatedly praises growing cooperation in the field of stem cell research, specifically citing the institute. Researchers and administrators agree that it has successfully facilitated collaboration, bringing significant scientific advances.
The insitute spans nine of the University’s 10 schools and 11 of its affiliated hospitals and research institutions. According to the institute’s annual report for 2006, the collaboration includes more than 750 scientists in 119 laboratories, as well as non-scientists from across the...
But blazing the trail for such alliances is no easy task. Reeve says that the extent of the interdisciplinary collaboration that goes on through the institute is unique not only to Harvard, but also with regard to other institutions across the country.