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The Broad Institute

The Broad Institute is an independent, non-profit research organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, dedicated to understanding the roots of disease and closing the gap between biological insights and patient impact.

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The Broad Institute is a multidisciplinary community of researchers on a mission to improve human health. It is an independent, non-profit research organization that aims to discover the root causes of common and rare diseases and to use that insight to help develop safe and effective therapeutic interventions. Based primarily in Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it was founded in 2004 to fulfill the promise of genomic medicine, three years after completion of the Human Genome Project, which Broad scientists helped create and lead. The Broad engages more than 6,000 scientists from MIT, Harvard, Harvard's primary teaching hospitals, academic institutions across the country, and industry partners, and it convenes experts across genomics, cell biology, chemistry, engineering, neuroscience, therapeutics, artificial intelligence/machine learning, computational biology, and public health.

History

The Broad Institute was founded in 2004 to fulfill the promise of genomic medicine, three years after completion of the Human Genome Project, which Broad scientists helped create and lead. It is an independent, non-profit research organization based primarily in Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aiming to discover the root causes of all common and rare diseases and to use this insight to help develop safe and effective therapeutic interventions. The Broad engages more than 6,000 scientists from MIT, Harvard, Harvard's primary teaching hospitals, academic institutions across the country, and leading industry partners including Bayer for cancer and cardiovascular health research, Boehringer Ingelheim, Calico, Deerfield Management, GSK, and Novo Nordisk. It has spearheaded flagship scientific projects such as the Human Genome Project (HGP), The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), and the Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap), and has conducted Covid testing to safel...

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An independent, non-profit research organization that tackles big scientific questions no single lab can address alone, empowering cross-disciplinary teams and openly sharing cutting-edge technologies and tools.

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