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...Wyss proposal comes at a time when bioengineering—one of the fastest growing concentrations in the United States—is ready to take center stage at the University. Bioengineering was identified as an important priority five years ago, Provost Steven E. Hyman said, citing the transition of DEAS into its own school last fall as an example of a heightened commitment to the applied sciences...
...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...
...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...
...Wyss did not want to simply re-create today’s biomedical engineering,” Hyman said. “Rather, he insisted that we build the bioengineering of the future...
...Wyss is not afraid to underwrite high-risk research...