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Harvard, MIT and the Cambridge-based Whitehead Institute announced last Thursday a sweeping new biomedical research center aimed at harnessing the recently-revealed code of the human genome for clinical ends...
...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 S. Lander, a faculty member at both MIT and Whitehead and a key player in the completed Human Genome Project...
...press conference Thursday, top officials from the universities and Whitehead promoted the new institute as bringing a focus—and a new model of inquiry—to the first great scientific challenge of the century...
Among its founding faculty are professors from MIT, Whitehead, the Faculty of Arts and Science (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...
...Broad Institute will be located near Whitehead and MIT in Cambridge’s Kendall Square neighborhood, an area seeded with biotechnology firms. The institute will have 15 associated faculty members when it is launched later this year, and Lander will be appointed to the HMS faculty at that time...