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.
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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.
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.
With the generous support of The KeepSmilin4Abbie Foundation, Wyss Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers are moving forward in identifying novel biomarkers of anaphylaxis.
Thanks to the generous support of BeWonderNow, Inc. in honor of their founder, Scott Danielson, researchers at the Wyss Institute are developing new ways to tackle treatment of brain cancers.
We are creating biomaterials, vaccines, and T-cell therapies to transform cancer into a curable disease.
We are developing cutting-edge diagnostics and therapies to make rapid, effective infectious disease care accessible worldwide.
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.
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.
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.
We are engineering sustainable technologies that connect human and environmental health, delivering solutions for materials, remediation, food systems, and resilience.
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Challenges We're Solving
