The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, formerly the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research (WICGR), is a multidisciplinary institution dedicated to fulfilling the potential of genomics for the biomedical sciences. The Broad Institute was founded as WICGR in 1990, and re-launched in 2004 as a collaboration between MIT, Harvard, the Whitehead Institute, and Harvard-affiliated hospitals, under a $100 million gift from billionaire philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad. On November 30, 2005, the Broads announced an additional $100 million gift to the institute [1]. Image File history File links Broad_institute_logo. ... Founded in 1984, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research and teaching institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... Genomics is the study of an organisms genome and the use of the genes. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Founded in 1984, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research and teaching institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Eli Broad is a billionaire who lives in Los Angeles California. ...

Note: "Broad" rhymes with "toad", not "thawed".

The faculty and staff of the Broad Institute include medical doctors, geneticists, and molecular, chemical, and computational biologists. The Broad's scientific research programs include:

• Cancer research and medicine
• Medical and Population Genetics
• Genome Biology
• Chemical Biology
• Metabolic Disease
• Infectious Disease
• Psychiatric Disease
• Computational biology and bioinformatics

Eric Lander is the founding director of the Broad Institute. When normal cells are damaged beyond repair, they are eliminated by apoptosis. ... Chemical biology is a scientific discipline spanning chemistry and biology that employs synthetic chemistry to study and manipulate biological systems. ... A metabolic disease is a disease caused by malfunction in the human total metabolism. ... In medicine, infectious disease or communicable disease is disease caused by a biological agent (e. ... Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that studies, diagnoses and treats mental illness and behavioral disorders. ... Bioinformatics or computational biology is the use of techniques from applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, and computer science to solve biological problems. ... Bioinformatics or computational biology is the use of techniques from applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, and computer science to solve biological problems. ... Eric S. Lander (b. ...

The Broad Institute's facilities at 320 Charles Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, house one of the largest genome sequencing centers in the world. As WICGR, this facility was the largest contributor of sequence information to the Human Genome Project. Cambridge City Hall Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ... DNA sequencing is the process of determining the nucleotide order of a given DNA fragment, called the DNA sequence. ... The Human Genome Project The Human Genome Project (HGP) endeavored to map the human genome down to the nucleotide (or base pair) level and to identify all the genes present in it. ...

In early 2006, The Broad Institute will relocate to a new building at 7 Cambridge Center, adjacent to the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. This seven-story 231,000 square foot building will contain office, research laboratory, retail and museum space. Founded in 1984, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research and teaching institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

External links

• Official website