Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is an international leader in biomedical research and is home to more than 3,300 researchers, including more than 900 principal investigators. In 2005, the BWH Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) was formed to facilitate collaboration within the hospital’s expansive research community, as well as to encourage interdepartmental and interdisciplinary science.

Today, the BRI includes eight disease-focused research centers and five resource- and technology-based programs – a research model that moves beyond the traditional structure of individual hospital departments. This infrastructure allows our diverse community of clinicians and scientists to communicate more effectively, providing numerous opportunities for them to collaborate on research aimed at curing, treating and preventing a host of human diseases and conditions.

		Cancer Research Center - Seeks to solve fundamental problems relating to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancers.
		Cardiovascular, Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders Research Center - Facilitates progress in diagnosis, prevention, and treatments for patients in ways unfeasible for an individual group or department.
		Center for Human Genetics at the BRI  - Aims to discover genetic variations that underlie, influence, and cause disease and to use this knowledge for prevention and treatment.
		Connors-BRI Center for Research on Women's Health & Gender Biology - Promotes the discovery of mechanisms and methodologies that underlie gender differences.
		Infectious and Immunologic Diseases Research Center - Takes an integrated approach to both infectious and immune-mediated diseases to better prevent, diagnose and treat them.
		Musculoskeletal Research Center - Strives to enhance, synergize, and stimulate interdepartmental and individual research that focuses on bones, joints, muscles, and the disorders that affect them.
		Neurosciences Research Center - Pursues breakthroughs in the treatment, prediction and prevention of brain disorders.
		Regenerative Therapeutics (Regen RX) - Takes a multidisciplinary approach integrating the talents of engineers, physicists, and mathematicians with those of biologists and clinicians to develop the knowledge base and engineer biological systems with the goal to repair and generate organs.
		Bioinformatics Program - Uses information technology - such as databases, algorithms, computational and statistical techniques and theory - to gain a better understanding of the body's biological processes.
		Biomedical Imaging Program - Builds bridges between imaging scientists and researchers to optimize imaging techniques used to diagnose, monitor, and treat many diseases in increasingly less invasive, more sophisticated ways.
		Clinical Research Program - The Center for Clinical Investigation’s multidisciplinary infrastructure provides access to exceptionally knowledgeable staff and coordinated programs to assist with every component of any given clinical research study, from translation to outcomes.
		Technology Innovation Program - Strives to identify technological solutions to clinical needs with partnerships from Partners Research Ventures and Licensing as well as the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology.