8th Annual
Longwood Medical
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Fun Facts:
- 56% of Harvard Medical School's gifts and pledges are invested in research and teaching. Harvard scientists were able to work on 428 new and current projects in 2012. Harvard Medical school has a total faculty of 11,017 which includes 8,224 resident physicians and Post Doc fellows.
- The Broad Institute of Harvard received a $600 million endowment to convert the institute into a permanent biomedical research organization aimed at transforming medicine. The commitment is the largest to support biomedical research activity at universities anywhere in the world.
- Philanthropist Len Blavatnik recently donated $50 million to Harvard to fund scientific research.
see opening of new translational center below: