Door to discovery. Since its founding in 1982, Whitehead Institute has defined the cutting edge of biomedical science, creating a legacy of research and academic excellence. close
Whitehead Institute has an annual operating budget
of $46 million, less than half of which comes from research
grants awarded by the federal government. Endowment
funds provide the seed money necessary to develop new
directions in science to conduct the experiments that
will convince others an idea is worth pursuing. The
flexibility resulting from these resources has played
a central role in Whitehead's development, allowing
the Institute to nurture scientific advances that might
not have occurred in other settings.
