Mission

The mission of the Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery by fostering groundbreaking, interdepartmental and interdisciplinary research among the hospital’s research community, as well as to provide a clear voice, both within the hospital and outside its walls, for all BWH researchers.

The BRI is led by a Research Oversight Committee (ROC) and includes more than 860 renowned physician-investigators, biomedical scientists and faculty and is supported by more than $412 million in funding. In addition to its ongoing research development, BWH is home to major landmark epidemiologic population studies including the Nurses' and Physicians' Health Studies and the Women's Health Initiative.

The BRI is organized into eight centers and three programs, that enhance the traditional hospital department structure, and:

• Supports ambitious and transformative research that will have a direct impact on creating new and better ways to treat patients;
• Facilitates the powerful, real-time connection that takes research from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside;
• Sparks new discoveries by providing greater opportunity for researchers to collaborate across disciplines;
• Offers shared state-of-the-art resources, programs and administrative support to enhance the work environment for researchers and allow them to focus solely on their groundbreaking work;
• And ultimately develops preventive and curative therapies for human diseases that will revolutionize medicine and relieve human suffering.

Notable center achievements include creating a novel surgical technique to treat mesothelioma; discovering new genetic variations associated with multiple sclerosis (MS); developing the world’s first intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system; and identifying a novel way to make patient specific embryonic stem cells using unfertilized eggs.  For a complete list of milestones, visit the BRI Research Centers webpage.

Send Feedback to: BRI Portal Coordinator at bwhresearch@partners.org
This page was last modified on 12/18/2007