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| Established | 2007 |
|---|---|
| President | Thomas F. Murphy |
| Website | http://www.pbgpf.org |
The Palm Beach Gardens Police Foundation is a corporation located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States. Although it is independently governed and supported as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the foundation is closely affiliated with the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department in the City of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
History
[edit]The Palm Beach Gardens Police Foundation was formed in 2007 by a group of Police Volunteers at the request of then Chief of Police Stephen J. Stepp.
As the world's economic situation began to decline, the Chief foresaw a need to generate additional funding to help support the training, technology and community involvement of the Police Department beyond that which was provided by local taxation.
To create a new organization that was open, collaborative, and able to organize projects at any scale, planning took place in 2007 by volunteers Thomas F. Murphy, Sanford L Pearl, Joseph F. Gallucci, Jack Milne and Rita Whalen. As the foundation's governing documents started to take shape, the FBI Alumni Association stepped in with a $5,000 grant to kick-start the organization.
On March of 2008 the Foundation announced its first fund drive and the Foundation became a permanent establishment.
Organizational Structure
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The Broad Institute is made up of three types of organizational units: core member laboratories, research programs, and platforms. The institute's scientific research programs include:[1]
- Cancer Program
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics
- Genome Biology and Cell Circuits Program
- Chemical Biology Program
- Metabolism Program
- Infectious Disease Program
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research
- Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program
- Epigenomics Program
The Broad Institute's platforms are teams of professional scientists who focus on the discovery, development, and optimization of the technological tools that Broad and other researchers use to conduct research. The platforms include:[2]
- Chemical Biology Platform
- Genomics Platform
- Imaging Platform
- Metabolite Profiling Platform
- Proteomics Platform
- RNAi Platform
- Therapeutics Discovery and Development
Core Members
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The faculty and staff of the Broad Institute include physicians, geneticists, and molecular, chemical, and computational biologists. The Faculty currently includes ten Core Members, whose labs are primarily located within the Broad Institute, and 135 Associate Members, whose primary labs are located at one of the universities or hospitals.[3]
The Core Members of the Broad Institute currently are:[4]
- David Altshuler, a clinical endocrinologist and human geneticist, is director of the Medical and Population Genetics program. He studies human genetic variation and its application to disease, using tools and information from the Human Genome Project. He is a 2010 appointee to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
- Todd Golub, a physician-researcher, is director of the Cancer program. He applies genomic tools to the classification and study of cancers.
- Deborah Hung is a chemical biologist and an infectious disease physician who studies the interactions between pathogens and their hosts, with the goal of discovering new antibiotic targets.
- Steven Hyman is the director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research.[5]
- Eric Lander is the director of the Broad Institute. A geneticist, molecular biologist and mathematician, Lander has been a driving force in the development of genomics and a prominent leader of the Human Genome Project.
- Aviv Regev is a computational biologist with interests in biological networks, gene regulation and evolution.
- Stuart Schreiber is director of the Chemical Biology program. He has developed systematic ways to explore biology, especially disease biology, using small molecules toward the development of therapeutic drugs.
Facilities
[edit]The Broad Institute's facilities at 320 Charles Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, house one of the largest genome sequencing centers in the world. As WICGR (Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research), this facility was the largest contributor of sequence information to the Human Genome Project.
In February 2006, The Broad Institute expanded to a new building at 7 Cambridge Center, adjacent to the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.[6] This seven-story 231,000-square-foot (21,500 m2) building contains office, research laboratory, retail and museum space. In 2010, the Broad expanded into a further 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m2). at 301 Binney St. In 2011 the Institute announced plans to construct an additional tower adjacent to the 7 Cambridge Center site at 75 Ames St.[7] The proposed tower would include 12 stories of research space and would consolidate other research from the 320 Charles, 5 Cambridge Center, and 301 Binney sites when those leases expire in 2014.[8][9] The general design was approved as part of a district rezoning decision made by the Cambridge City Council in August, 2010.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ Broad Programs, Broad Institute official website (retrieved October 30, 2012).
- ^ Broad Platforms, Broad Institute official site (retrieved November 5, 2012).
- ^ "Broad Institute welcomes 135 associate members", Broad Institute (November 4, 2011).
- ^ Broad Institute official website, Retrieved 10-30-2012.
- ^ "Steven E. Hyman, M.D.", Broad Institute. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
- ^ Map of 320 Charles Street and 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA
- ^ Lipinski, Pearle. "Broad plans extension in Cambridge Center". Retrieved 3 March 2011.
- ^ Levy, Marc. "More mixed emotions than mixed-use in proposal for Kendall Square". Retrieved 3 March 2011.
- ^ "Broad Institute celebrates groundbreaking of new Kendall Square building", Broad Institute (October 19, 2011).
- ^ Philippidis, Alex. "Broad Institute Gets City Council Approval for New Building". Retrieved 3 March 2011.
Further reading
[edit]- commentary on the Broad Institute's website, receiving a 4-star excellent rating
Kevin Ahern, Ph.D. (2009). "GEN Best of the Web". Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. 29 (8): 66.
External links
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