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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Whitehead Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It is a quasi-autonomous division of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and its members and associate members hold faculty appointments in MIT's Biology Department.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a leading, nonprofit research and educational institution which has defined the cutting edge of biomedical science, creating a legacy of research excellence and academic eminence since 1982.
Whitehead Institute was founded in 1982 through the generosity of Edwin C. “Jack” Whitehead, a businessman and philanthropist who sought to create a new type of research institution.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Whitehead-Institute   (271 words)

  
 Whitehead Institute
The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit, independent research and educational institution with pathfinding programs in cancer and AIDS research, structural biology, genetics, infectious disease research, developmental biology and transgenic science.
The Whitehead Institute is an international leader in the Human Genome Project, the effort to identify all of the DNA letters that make up instructions for a human being.
The Whitehead Institute's Center for Genomic Research is the largest federally funded center for genome mapping and sequencing and contributed one-third of the human genome sequence announced in June 2000.
www.biospace.com /company_profile.cfm?CompanyID=42804   (372 words)

  
  About John W. Whitehead :: The Rutherford Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Whitehead's concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization whose international headquarters are located in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Whitehead serves as the Institute’s president and spokesperson, in addition to writing a weekly commentary that is posted on The Rutherford Institute’s website (www.rutherford.org), as well being distributed to several hundred newspapers, and hosting a national public service radio campaign.
Whitehead continues to speak out in defense of a woman's right to be free from sexual harassment and frequently comments on a variety of legal issues in the national media.
www.rutherford.org /about/jww.asp   (642 words)

  
 Whitehead Institute - About Whitehead
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a leading, nonprofit research and educational institution which has defined the cutting edge of biomedical science, creating a legacy of research excellence and academic eminence since 1982.
Whitehead Institute was founded in 1982 through the generosity of Edwin C. “Jack” Whitehead, a businessman and philanthropist who sought to create a new type of research institution.
The Whitehead Institute is guided by a distinguished Board of Directors and by a Board of Advisory Scientists composed of some of the world's most eminent biologists.
www.whitehead.mit.edu /about   (378 words)

  
 Whitehead Institute - Wikipedia
Founded in 1984, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research and teaching institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
It is a quasi-autonomous division of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and its members and associate members hold faculty appointments in MIT's Biology Department.
Its Center for Genome Research was active in the Human Genome Project, and reportedly contributed one-third of the human genome sequence announced in June 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whitehead_Institute   (174 words)

  
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The Whitehead Institute is academically affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y but is independent in its governance and finances.
Whitehead Institute Faculty Director Susan Lindquist leads a world-renowned scientific staff of 14 Members and Associate Members, eight Whitehead Fellows, and more than 400 visiting scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates from universities and research institutions around the world.
Whitehead Institute Fellows Whitehead Fellows are recent graduates of Ph.D. or M.D. programs chosen for their outstanding research accomplishments.
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 Whitehead Institute - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
When the Institute moved from temporary quarters at MIT to the new Whitehead building in the summer of 1984, it was already a thriving research establishment.
The Whitehead was the core institution for one of the six original National Cooperative Vaccine Development Groups for AIDS (established by the National Institutes of Health to speed the development of an AIDS vaccine), and was emerging as a major center for the newly organized U.S. Human Genome Project.
One of the reasons behind the meteroic rise of the Whitehead was its ability to support new ideas at the very earliest stage of development—taking a chance on brilliant young scientists eager to extend the boundaries of their chosen fields.
www.whitehead.mit.edu /about/history.html   (1467 words)

  
 The Scientist : Alliance Offers Unique Model For Research Collaborators
The participants in the consortium are the Whitehead Institute/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Genome Research in Cambridge, Mass.; Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. of New York; Affymetrix Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif.; and Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Cambridge.
Lander, a member of the Whitehead Institute, director of the Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research, and a professor of biology at MIT, adds: "This arose of necessity, because all of the pieces to pursue functional genomics well were in several different hands.
Biotech analyst Feinstein cautions the Whitehead Institute to monitor closely the various relationships in the consortium to ensure that conflicts of interest are avoided and intellectual freedom maintained.
www.the-scientist.com /article/display/17641   (1928 words)

  
 Whitehead Institute Dedicates New Research Wing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Whitehead Institute is a non-profit independent research institute affiliated with MIT through its teaching activities.
The Institute was founded 14 years ago by Jack Whitehead, and the new wing is named the John, Peter, and Susan wing in honor of Whitehead's three children.
He said that Whitehead thrives largely because of its proximity to MIT, which has "the great capacity to be innovative." MIT also provides a critical mass of young investigators that provide an essential base, "and the values of their research must be appreciated," he said.
www-tech.mit.edu /V116/N48/whitehead.48n.html   (789 words)

  
 Whitehead Institute - Faster drug screening
Now, scientists at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Columbia University have developed a way to simplify the process so that a library of 5,000 molecular drug candidates can potentially be screened on a single slide.
At the heart of this new process is a cell-based microarray developed jointly by Whitehead Associate Member David Sabatini and Columbia Assistant Professor Brent Stockwell (a former Whitehead Fellow).
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a nonprofit, independent research and educational institution.
www.wi.mit.edu /news/archives/2004/ds_1117.html   (462 words)

  
 BARF People/Organization Profile: John Whitehead / Rutherford Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Institute is named for the 17th century Scottish minister Samuel Rutherford, the author of 'Lex Rex'.
The cases and tactics of the Rutherford Institute, when taken in combination with the modern Biblical American media showcasing of its cases, may be seen as a perfect instrument by which to implement Gary North's "brushfires" strategy.
Whitehead insists that he "condemns violence," yet he offered to represent Paul Hill, the compulsory pregnancy advocate who murdered an abortion doctor and bodyguard with shotgun blasts to their heads in Pensacola, Florida.
www.barf.org /archive/rutherford   (495 words)

  
 The Public Eye : Website of Political Research Associates
John W. Whitehead, head of the Rutherford Institute, has gone to great lengths to conceal the ideological leanings of his Christian Right legal center in statements to the mass media.
Whitehead consistently puts forward an apocalyptic conspiracist vision of devout Christian activists under concerted attack by corrupt and repressive government officials in the service of godless and immoral secular humanism.
Yet Whitehead's shift is more tactical rather than a shift in basic ideology, and reflects the trend in the Christian Right toward re-applying the principle of "hating the sin, but loving the sinner," even when the goal is still theocratic and monocultural.
www.publiceye.org /conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-15.html   (824 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Harvard, MIT and Whitehead Institute announce new biomedical research center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Lander, an MIT faculty member at the Whitehead Institute and founder and director of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, aided a public consortium — of which Whitehead was a member — that was one of two efforts to map the human genome.
The institute, which is expected to open this year, expects to raise as much as $200 million more in private funds for its research programs over the next decade, as well as bring in federal research funds.
The MIT-administered institute will be in a new facility in Kendall Square in Cambridge, near MIT and the Whitehead Institute, Harvard Medical School in Boston and the Harvard campus.
www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2003-06-19-harvard-mit_x.htm   (439 words)

  
 Cafeteria Review: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The food is of sufficient appeal that Whitehead researchers sometimes commission the staff to cater their weddings.
However, postdoc Leila Bradley insisted that the the Whitehead salad bar is excellent, especially in comparison to the labs in her native England, where there are no salad bars.
At the time we visited the Whitehead Institute Cafeteria, its walls displayed not a single picture of a bearded man. Administrators assured us that a portrait of Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, the Institute’s first director and the possessor of a high quality beard, would soon grace the dining area.
www.improb.com /airchives/paperair/volume2/v2i6/white.htm   (825 words)

  
 Whitehead Institute
Whitehead Institute is a biomedical research firm employing over 1100 people in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The institute is a nonprofit and educational research institution and shares a close affiliation with Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Whitehead effort is moving ahead as planned with a dedicated Paradigm Project Manager and a team of experienced Paradigm consultants and internal staff.
www.paradigm-erp.com /casestudies_whitehead.htm   (578 words)

  
 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Press Releases
The Wellcome Trust has funded the Sanger Institute to decode the human and mouse genomes and, crucially, provides researchers with simple, free and unrestricted access to the information, through the Ensembl database, which is co-managed with the European Bioinformatics Institute.
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute was founded in 1992 as the focus for the UK sequencing effort of the human and mouse genomes.
The Institute is responsible for the completion of the sequence of approximately one-third of the human genome and one-fifth of the mouse, The Institute is also a major contributor to the mapping and sequencing of the zebrafish genome and genomes of a range of pathogens.
www.sanger.ac.uk /Info/Press/2002/021205.shtml   (1269 words)

  
 UMKC - News for 2005
Scientists at the Harvard Institute of Proteomics prepared an array of individual yeast genes capable of being over-expressed in cells.
The research group at the Whitehead Institute, led by Susan Lindquist who is also a senior author on the paper, introduced the genes into cells that were also expressing lethal levels of alpha-synuclein.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a nonprofit, independent research and educational institution.
www.umkc.edu /news/pressrelease/fullstory.asp?id=2006103   (702 words)

  
 Goody Clancy: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Cambridge, MA This internationally renowned facility comprises biology, microbiology, biochemistry, and genetics laboratories, and is a center for genome mapping.
Institute contains sixty laboratories with related support facilities, faculty offices, an animal suite, an auditorium, a library, a cafeteria, and a conference room.
Built in two phases, original 166,000 square foot facility was completed in 1984 and the 77,000 square foot addition in 1996.
www.gcassoc.com /html/proj_descr.asp?pageid=1170   (146 words)

  
 The Scientist : The Science of Collaboration
By most measures, the Whitehead Institute and its impressive array of internationally renowned scientists is still regarded among the world's finest biomedical research centers.
The initial goal of the independent, nonprofit research and teaching institute was to solve problems in biology that could one day be applied to new treatments for human disease.
The Whitehead is already evolving its mission by applying its raw data in-house to find the genetic markers for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and inflammatory bowel disease.
www.the-scientist.com /article/display/12737   (1512 words)

  
 BostonWorks - Whitehead Institute Jobs and Employer Profile
The Whitehead Institute is a phenomenally successful biomedical research and teaching institution founded in 1982 to identify and support the finest minds in science.
Since 1990, the Whitehead Institute has ranked among the top three research institutes in the world in genetics and molecular biology.
Whitehead is recognized worldwide for pathfinding programs in cancer and AIDS research, developmental biology, structural biology, infectious disease, and genetics.
bostonworks.boston.com /research/profiles/whitehead_institute.shtml   (246 words)

  
 institute whitehead microarrays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
DNA Microarrays: Whitehead Institute and Affymetrix to move cancer...
Whitehead Institute and Affymetrix to move cancer genomics into the clinic DNA Microarrays October 24, 2002...
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research/MIT Center for Genome Research.
www.acne-removal-guide.info /institute-whitehead-microarrays.html   (602 words)

  
 C&EN: TODAY'S HEADLINES - A COLLABORATIVE TRIUMVIRATE
arvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, a nonprofit research and educational institution affiliated with MIT, have announced a unique collaboration: the formation of a joint institute specializing in genomics, chemistry, and biomedicine.
Researchers and administrators at the three institutions had batted around the idea of a joint institute for a couple of years.
For the sake of comparison, the largest-ever donation to an institution of higher learning was the $600 million grant awarded to California Institute of Technology in 2001 by Intel cofounder Gordon E. Moore, his wife Betty, and their foundation.
pubs.acs.org /cen/topstory/8125/print/8125notw1.html   (498 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: Broad Institute created
Harvard announced in June that it will embark on a major new collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (WIBR), and several Harvard-affiliated hospitals, intended to bring the power of genomics to bear on the understanding of disease and to accelerate the search for cures.
The collaboration will be known as the Broad Institute, named for lead donors Eli and Edythe Broad, who have pledged $100 million over 10 years to support the institute's work.
Todd Golub, associate professor of pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, associate investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and director of the cancer genomics program at Whitehead Institute/M.I.T. Center for Genome Research, who is a leader in using DNA chips to diagnose cancers.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/07.17/11-broad.html   (485 words)

  
 Whitehead Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Whitehead Institute is a non-profit, independent basic research and teaching institution recognized worldwide for path finding programs in cancer, stem cell and AIDS research, genomics, developmental biology, structural biology, and infectious disease.
Founded in 1982 through the generosity of philanthropist Edwin C. "Jack" Whitehead, the Institute is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in its teaching activities, but wholly responsible for its own research programs, governance, and finance.
The Whitehead faculty includes the winner of the 1997 National Medal of Science, four Members of the National Academy of Sciences, four members of the Institute of Medicine, and four Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
www.acor.org /drugs/pipeline/companies/42804.profile   (236 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: Broad Institute To join Harvard, MIT, and others in interdisciplinary initiative in genomics and ...
The Institute will be directed by Eric Lander, a member of the faculty of MIT and the Whitehead Institute, who is expected also to become a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty later this year.
It is envisioned that the Broad Institute will eventually have a full complement of 12 core faculty members, half from Harvard and the affiliated hospitals and half from MIT and the WIBR, as well as additional faculty associates.
In an unprecedented alliance, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and Whitehead Institute announced today they have joined forces with Los Angeles philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad to create a new type of biomedical research institute called The Broad Institute.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/daily/0306/19-broad.html   (631 words)

  
 Biologists cite way to multiply blood stem cells - The Boston Globe
The new technique, discovered in mouse experiments by biologists at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, uses a cocktail of growth factors to multiply the stem cells up to thirtyfold.
Zhang's team, working under the direction of Whitehead scientist Harvey F. Lodish, suspected that there are cells in the liver that help the blood stem cells multiply.
Similar growth factors are found in human livers, and the Whitehead team is organizing a study to see whether they can be used to make human blood stem cells multiply in the lab.
www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2006/01/23/biologists_cite_way_to_multiply_blood_stem_cells?page=2   (963 words)

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