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The Broads, who made their fortune in Southern California real estate, have already donated $200 million to the institute in two $100 million chunks—the first in 2003 and the second in 2005.
In March 2007, the Broad Institute reeled in a third $100 million gift, this one from the Stanley Medical Research Institute, to create a new center to study psychiatric disease, a move that backers said would jump-start the search for the genetic basis of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The...
—Check TheCrimson.com for more updates regarding tomorrow's press conference as well as continuing coverage on what the gift means for the future of the Broad Institute.
The Broad Institute, a unique joint effort between Harvard and MIT to bring genome-based information to medicine, received a $400 million gift from founding benefactors Eli and Edythe L. Broad. The gift marked the fourth anniversary of the institute.
The gift brings the total investment by the Broads to $600 million, dwarfing any donation given to either university. The new gift will enable the institute, founded soon after the completion of the Human Genome Project, to create its own endowment and establish itself as a permanent, standalone biomedical research...