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...Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier said that upon taking the helm of the school in July 2007, he adopted the view, widely held at SEAS, that bioengineering needed to be developed at Harvard. The Medical School released slew of committee reports this summer—the most detailed and substantial of which called for the creation of a University-wide bioengineering initiative, concluding the first phase of the strategic planning process launched last October...
...Though the report, commissioned by Flier and former SEAS Dean Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, is by no means a final plan, Flier said that the proposed ideas seem to be “very, very reasonable” and that implementation will likely follow the appointment of a permanent dean of SEAS and approval from the University...
...Flier said that the Wyss gift would fuel a serious piece of bioengineering activity at the Harvard, but that the gift by itself would not fulfill the University’s aspirations in developing bioengineering...
...gift would hopefully put a stake in the ground,” Flier said, adding that the Medical School is also ready to contribute financially to the institute. “But coming as it is with certain, specific intentions of the donor, it does not fully do what I believe the University will want to do in the broad area of bioengineering...
...Flier said that for example, the Wyss Institute, which he classified as a research and faculty-building program, is not structured as an educational program...