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Whitehead Institute
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Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
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The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Established 1982; 39 years ago
Research type A scientific community exploring biology's most fundamental questions for the betterment of human health
Field of research Cancer, Stem Cell, Immunology, Developmental Biology, Regenerative Medicine, Genetics, Genomics
Director Ruth Lehmann
Endowment $527.9 million (2019)[1]
Affiliations Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Website wi.mit.edu
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research institute located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States that is dedicated to improving human health through basic biomedical research. It was founded as a fiscally independent entity from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where its 18 members all hold faculty appointments in the MIT Department of Biology or the MIT Department of Bioengineering. Two members (Rudolf Jaenisch, 2010,[2] and Robert Weinberg, 1997[3]) are National Medal of Science recipients; ten have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences;[4] and four have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine;[5] six are Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators.[6]
On September 2019, Ruth Lehmann was announced as the new Director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, commencing July 2020 and succeeding David Page. |