Ensconced in state-of-the-art lab buildings on the edge of MIT’s campus, the Broad was founded in 2004 by the irrepressible Eric Lander with funding (eventually $800 million) from Eli and Edythe Broad. Its mission was to advance the treatment of diseases using the knowledge spawned by the Human Genome Project, on which Lander had been the most prolific gene-sequencer.
