About

The Broad Institute evolved from a decade of informal and successful research collaborations among young scientists in the MIT and Harvard communities.

The Broad Institute was founded in 2003 and launched in 2004 through the extraordinary generosity and remarkable vision of Los Angeles-based philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad. The Broads recognized earlier than almost anyone else the inherent promise of genomics to change medicine, and they saw the need to empower scientists to work together to realize that promise. Their founding gift was intended to provide the resources necessary to allow the institute ten years to build and prove a new, collaborative model of science focused on transforming medicine.

Although the astounding generosity of Eli and Edythe L. Broad and several other venture philanthropists empowers our scientists to tackle many of the most important problems at the cutting edge of genomic medicine, there are many other critical challenges that they cannot yet pursue because of limited resources. We need additional visionary partners to join the Broads and the Broad Institute in transforming medicine with the power of genomics.

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was launched in 2004 with the visionary philanthropic investment of Eli and Edythe Broad, who joined with leaders at Harvard and its affiliated hospitals, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute to pioneer a "new model” of collaborative science that would transform medicine with the power of genomics.

Although members of the Broad community are formally affiliated with many different institutions, they come together at the institute around the singular goal of transforming medicine with genome-based knowledge. Within this open but tightly integrated community, creative scientists at all career stages gain access to the resources and collaborators needed to test new ideas and to build and apply the critical tools that empower the world-wide biomedical community.