Digging for answers (MIT)
Aiming for breakthroughs in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes
and other major illnesses, MIT and the pharmaceutical firm Pfizer Inc. held a
formal groundbreaking on Monday morning for a new, multidisciplinary research
center to be built on MIT property in the Kendall Square neighborhood.
The two-building complex will house Pfizer’s Cardiovascular, Metabolic, and
Endocrine Diseases (CVMED) and Neuroscience research units. It will be
situated within a couple of blocks of several MIT biomedical centers that
conduct research related to Pfizer’s areas of drug development.
In remarks at the groundbreaking ceremony, MIT President Susan Hockfield said
the complex would “magnify the creative intensity and collaborative spirit”
that marks biotechnology research in the MIT area.
The prospect of Pfizer and MIT scientists collaborating on research projects,
Hockfield added, is an extension of MIT founder William Barton Rogers’ vision
of basic research being pursued both for its own sake and for the sake of
developing useful technologies.
“Rogers championed the most fundamental science and the most practical
applications, but most importantly, the fruitful interaction between those —
and in doing so, he created the MIT that’s become a kind of innovation
machine,” Hockfield said. The extension of MIT’s working relationship …
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