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- The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT -0- What: Major announcement about the future of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, followed by media availability and teleconference Who: Governor Deval Patrick Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Note: Gov. Patrick will be at the announcement only, not available for the media teleconference.) Eli and Edythe L. Broad Founders
of The Broad Foundations Eric Lander, Ph.D. Founding Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Susan Hockfield, Ph.D. President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Drew Gilpin Faust, Ph.D. President of Harvard University David Baltimore, Ph.D. Nobel Laureate, Founding Director of the Whitehead Institute, and President Emeritus of the California Institute of Technology When: Thursday, September 4, 2008 9:30a.m. announcement in the Broad Institute Lobby 11a.m. media Q&A/press availability in the Institute Board Room. There will be a half-hour break between the event and the media teleconference to allow media transition and set-up in the conference room. Where: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard 7 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 For directions, please visit the Institute website:
www.broad.mit.edu.
Note:
Media are invited to cover this event with a photographer, camera crew, and/or a reporter. All necessary electronic resources will be available, including camera hook-ups, b-roll, etc. There will be a formal photo opportunity with all of the morning's speakers, immediately following the announcement. Photographers should plan to gather in front of the stage at that time.
There will be a media sign-in desk in the Broad Institute Lobby for all media representatives. If you plan to attend the event and the media conference, please arrive by 9:15am at the latest. For security reasons, no guests will be admitted after 9:25a.m. RSVPs (
rsvp@broad.mit.edu) are appreciated but not required.
Media Conference dial-in information:
For those unable to attend the event, there will be a dial-in number to allow full participation in the media Q&A following the event (see details below). However, please note that the announcement itself will not be available in real time, thus press attendance at the event is strongly encouraged. A recording of the announcement will be made available later in the day on Sept. 4 on the Broad Institute website (
www.broad.mit.edu). -0- Conference ID#: 62025420 Participant Dial-in Numbers: (877) 452-9913 (US/Canada) (706) 758-9982 (International)
A digital recording of the teleconference will be available for one week beginning two hours after the conference's completion. The recording can be accessed at: (800) 642-1687 or (706) 645-9291.
About the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT was founded in 2003 to bring the power of genomics to biomedicine. It pursues this mission by empowering creative scientists to construct new and robust tools for genomic medicine, to make them accessible to the global scientific community, and to apply them to the understanding and treatment of disease.
The Institute is a research collaboration that involves faculty, professional staff and students from throughout the MIT and Harvard academic and medical communities. It is jointly governed by the two universities.
Organized around Scientific Programs and Scientific Platforms, the unique structure of the Broad Institute enables scientists to collaborate on transformative projects across many scientific and medical disciplines.
For further information about the Broad Institute, go to
www.broad.mit.edu.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, OR TO RSVP:
Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Nicole Davis, 617-258-0952,
ndavis@broad.mit.edu 
