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May 1, 2004: Broad Institute, the Top Biomedical and Genomic Research Center, Was Officially Launched
On May 1, 2004, the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard the Broad Institute, often referred to as the Broad Institute, was formally launched with the funfing from the Eli and Edythe Broad and co-organized by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Broad Institute encourages cooperative research, and has no upper limit to the scale of the budget. The purpose is to integrate knowledge and develop a brand new research cooperation model, to advance genomics medicine. The Broad Institute has became a leading academic institution for genetic and biomedical research. In recent years, one of the most popular CRISPR research has budded from this center.
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https://www.broadinstitute.org/history-leadership/history/history
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https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/science/broad-institute-director-finds-power-in-numbers.html?_r=0
