Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
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The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is an independent, nonprofit research institution affiliated with MIT that is renowned for pioneering work in genetics, genomics, and developmental biology.
Aliases (1)
- Whitehead Institute Fellows Program ×1
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| instanceOf |
biomedical research institute
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independent research institute → nonprofit organization → |
| affiliatedWith |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| collaboratesWith |
Broad Institute
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Harvard University → Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Biology → |
| country |
United States
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| employs |
graduate students
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postdoctoral researchers → principal investigators → technical staff → |
| fieldOfWork |
biomedical research
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cancer biology → cell biology → developmental biology → genetics → genomics → molecular biology → stem cell biology → |
| foundedBy |
Edwin C. Whitehead
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| fundedBy |
federal research grants
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philanthropic donations → private foundations → |
| hasMission |
to improve human health through basic biomedical research
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to train the next generation of scientists → |
| hasNotableContribution |
advances in cancer genetics
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advances in stem cell research → contributions to the Human Genome Project → development of genomic technologies → pioneering work in developmental biology → pioneering work in genetics → pioneering work in genomics → |
| hasPart |
Whitehead Institute Fellows Program
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| hasResearchFocus |
basic biomedical science
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computational biology → gene regulation → genome organization → human disease mechanisms → immunology → neurobiology → systems biology → |
| inception |
1982
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| legalForm |
nonprofit organization
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| locatedIn |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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| namedAfter |
Edwin C. Whitehead
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| organizationType |
research institute
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| website |
https://wi.mit.edu/
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Referenced by (2)
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Department of Biology
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Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
("Whitehead Institute Fellows Program")
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