Brigham and Women's Hospital is home to one of the most powerful Biomedical Research Institutes in the world. With total research expenditures topping $370 million in FY2005 (64% attributed to NIH grants), BWH has 2,600 professional and technical staff devoted to research, including over 1,000 Primary Investigators (PIs) and 800 research fellows. The BWH Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) is the umbrella organization for all research efforts at the hospital. BWH has long had great success in biomedical research as measured by the number of important discoveries, size and scope of its research portfolio, and the volume of publications. This success is the result of the entrepreneurial nature of individual investigators, and it has been achieved with formal structures of individual Departments. The BRI now offers a new paradigm for research at the Brigham for the twenty-first century, with the development of Centers, Platforms and Programs. These will facilitate research grouped into thematic centers, and technology-based platforms and programs, to enhance collaboration. The BRI sets a new standard of research excellence through its commitment to several essential goals:supporting ambitious and transformative research that will have a direct impact on creating new and better ways to treat patients and whose promise can be realized rapidly; facilitating the powerful, real-time connection that takes BWH research straight from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside; sparking new discoveries by providing greater opportunity for researchers to collaborate across disciplines and dissolving barriers that prevent such collaboration; and offering shared state-of-the-art resources and programs that enhance the quality of life for BWH scientists and allow them to focus on their groundbreaking work.
The BRI seeks to synergize, facilitate and enable research by providing a clear voice and a strong identity for the research community and creating new funding opportunities to sustain the research enterprise. Our research community is comprised of funded investigators, developing investigators, trainees and laboratory staff. |
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