10 Facts About Broad Institute

Eli and Edythe L Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, often referred to as the Broad Institute, is a biomedical and genomic research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Broad Institute evolved from a decade of research collaborations among MIT and Harvard scientists.

Broad Institute has 11 core faculty and 195 associate members from Harvard, MIT, and the Harvard-affiliated hospitals.

Broad Institute is made up of three types of organizational units: core member laboratories, research programs, and platforms.

Broad Institute's platforms are teams of professional scientists who focus on the discovery, development, and optimization of the technological tools that Broad and other researchers use to conduct research.

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Faculty and staff of the Broad Institute include physicians, geneticists, and molecular, chemical, and computational biologists.

In February 2006, The Broad Institute expanded to a new building at 415 Main Street, adjacent to the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

In July 2014, coinciding with the publication of a new study on the genetics of schizophrenia, the Broad Institute received a $650 million gift from the Stanley Family Foundation, one of the largest private gifts ever for scientific research.

Since 2010, the Broad Institute has been listed on The Boston Globe's Top Places to Work.

Twenty-eight researchers from Broad Institute have been recognized on ISI's Highly Cited, a database that recognizes the top 250 researchers in multiple areas of science.