Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

The Broad Institute is a world-renowned, independent, non-profit biomedical and genomic research center based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was founded in 2004 to fulfill the promise of genomic medicine, bringing together a diverse community of researchers from MIT, Harvard University, and five Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals to tackle the most challenging problems in biomedicine. The institute operates as a unique collaborative hub, organizing its work into core member laboratories, research programs, and technology platforms. Its mission is to discover the root causes of common and rare diseases and to translate these insights into safe and effective therapeutic interventions, diagnostic tools, and improved clinical outcomes.