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Summers has read Pinker’s work and pushed hard to recruit the cognitive scientist, contacting him at MIT and inviting him to Elmwood, the presidential mansion...
...Harvard, MIT and the Cambridge-based Whitehead Institute announced Thursday a sweeping new biomedical research center aimed at harnessing the recently-revealed code of the human genome for clinical ends...
...gift from California philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad will bring together researchers across the two universities, in what founders described as an unprecedented collaboration. The new Broad Institute will grow out of Whitehead’s programs, under the leadership of Eric Lander, a faculty member at both MIT and Whitehead and a key player in the completed Human Genome Project...
...MIT will administer the institute, but the three institutions will oversee it jointly. And MIT and Harvard have committed to raising as much as $200 million from individuals, foundations and corporations to support its research...
Lander and others emphasized that the institute will be the first of its kind in terms of the scope of the collaborations it hopes to promote. Among its founding faculty are professors from MIT, Whitehead, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). It will bring together basic, applied and clinical scientists, with experts from fields including computational biology, chemistry and engineering...