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Wyss is Advancing Breakthroughs

Help us leverage Nature’s genius to tackle urgent global challenges

Patients can't wait.

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The Wyss Institute is reimagining the world by taking on seemingly impossible challenges to improve the lives of patients and protect our planet. Our nonprofit model brings together the greatest minds from academia, industry, and the philanthropic and investment communities to support entrepreneurial scientists in accelerating breakthrough discoveries, de-risking their innovations, and developing transformative technologies that will change the world.

Contributions of all sizes help us to unleash new discoveries. Give online today.

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Individual Supporters
Wyss innovators are tackling over 250 active projects aimed at solving Grand Challenges. Individual supporters provide direct backing to researchers that moves breakthroughs from the lab into the world to make an immediate difference.

Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

Venture-Focused Alliances
These strategic partnerships build close collaboration that help shape Wyss projects with strong market promise, fueling the translation of bold ideas into real-world solutions.

Industry Collaborations
We work with industry leaders to co-develop innovations that deepen their portfolio of disease-specific interventions and capture emerging trends shaping their fields.

Foundation Partners
Together with philanthropic foundations, we are applying our innovation platforms to a broad landscape of pressing health and environmental challenges, and connecting creative problem solvers to real-world problems.

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Challenges We're Solving

  • Warm-toned portrait of smiling bald woman listening to female doctor showing negative test results during consultation on alopecia and cancer recovery, copy space
    Cancer Solutions

    We are creating biomaterials, vaccines, and T-cell therapies to transform cancer into a curable disease.

  • Nurse examing patient in rural village location. Kenya, Africa.
    Infectious Disease Control

    We are developing cutting-edge diagnostics and therapies to make rapid, effective infectious disease care accessible worldwide.

  • Old senior couple enjoy the travel vacation planning lay down inside a vintage van - happy lifestyle for retired people enjoying life - together forever couple - people traveling in summer
    Healthy Aging

    We are decoding the biology of aging and age-related diseases to create therapies and technologies that help people overcome their maladies and stay healthier longer.

  • Brain disease diagnosis with medical doctor diagnosing elderly ageing patient neurodegenerative illness problem seeing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) film for neurological medical treatment
    Brain Health

    We are targeting neurological diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and finding ways to get drugs across the blood-brain barrier, which is an obstacle to treating brain disorders.

  • Girl getting piggyback with mother and grandmother in garden
    Women’s Health Innovation

    We are supporting research and innovation to address critical gaps in therapeutics, diagnostics, and medical devices for women’s health at every life stage through our Women’s Health Catalyst.

  • Solar Panel Energy Photovoltaic Roof with blur Plant Growth Tree and Wind Mill Renewable Generator Power Plant Farm,Zero Carbon System Future,Sustainable Alternative Battery Solution Ecology Station.
    Sustainable Futures

    We are engineering sustainable technologies that connect human and environmental health, delivering solutions for materials, remediation, food systems, and resilience.

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