In 2003, The Broad Intitute was founded and launched through the generosity and vision of Los Angeles-based philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad. The Institute was founded through donations of $100 million in 2003, and another $100 million in 2005 by the Broad family.

The Institute evolved from a decade of successful research collaborations among scientists in the Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) communities, and was created to facilitate collaboration and organization of cross-discipinary projects at any scale. The Institute’s main mission is to translate knowledge of the human genome into new forms of medicines.