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Broad Institute appoints first board of directors
By Mass High Tech staff
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The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has formed its first board of directors and named 14 global leaders in medicine, science, education, law, finance and business as its members.
The board includes three-year term members Dennis Ausiello, chief of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital; David Baltimore, president emeritus of California Institute of Technology and Nobel laureate; Eli Broad, founder of the Broad Foundations; Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University; Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the faculty of medicine, Harvard Medical School; Susan Hockfield, president of MIT; Seth A. Klarman, president of the Baupost Group LLC; Eric S. Lander, president and director of the Broad Institute, MIT professor, and Harvard Medical School professor; William F. Lee, co-managing partner at WilmerHale; Arthur D. Levinson, chairman at Genentech Inc.; Phillip A. Sharp, MIT professor and Nobel Laureate; Patty Stonesifer, former president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and current senior advisor to the trustees of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Ratan N. Tata, chairman of Tata Group; and Diana Chapman Walsh, president emerita of Wellesley College.
The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute was founded in 2003 as a medicine research institution that, as of July, operates as a non-profit organization. The institute relies on genome-based knowledge as the backbone for 100 faculty and 1,500 researchers.
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