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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.
The $125 million gift will allow for such work and technology development at a time when federal financial support for science research is frozen, according to Medical School and SEAS professor Donald Ingber, who will be the founding director of the Wyss Institute.
“The research institute will almost be like a research and development start-up in an academic environment,” Ingber said. “It will be very different from what has been done at Harvard in past years.”
In the meantime, Ingber said that he will continue to recruit faculty from across the University for the institute and begin moving laboratories into temporary locations next year, first at the Harvard Institute of Medicine Building in the Longwood Medical Area and then at the Northwest Science Building in Cambridge...
Ingber said that he hopes the institute will be linked to many other graduate schools at Harvard, including the Graduate School of Design and the Business School, as well as provide a multidisciplinary research experience for undergraduates.