The Broad Discovery Center is an active, public educational space that showcases how researchers in Kendall Square and around the world are seeking to understand and treat human disease.

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Visitors will learn how researchers at Broad and our partner institutions are teaming up with collaborators across the globe to chase down the biological basis of psychiatric conditions, cancer, infectious diseases, and more, develop new strategies for treatment, and build datasets and technologies to share with scientists everywhere.


Staffed hours: Monday-Wednesday, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Guided tours: Monday-Wednesday, 11:00 am

Lobby hours: Monday-Friday, 7:00 am - 7:00 pm

 

Admission is free and open to the public.

We are closed when Broad is closed, including the winter shutdown.

 

Photo credit: Gretchen Ertl.
 

Contacts

Broad Discovery Center
Merkin Building Lobby
415 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
discoverycenter@broadinstitute.org
(617) 714-7000

 

The Discovery Center and Merkin lobby are only available for Broad-sponsored events. Broadies with questions about hosting an event in this space should email events@broadinstitute.org. Although the public is welcome to visit the Discovery Center, Broad does not rent the space to external groups. 

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Miriam Udler and Melina Clasussnitzer next to the Broad Discovery Series logo
Broad Discovery Series: New perspectives on diabetes: the many subtypes of type 2 on Thursday, November 9
In this Broad Discovery Series event, physician-geneticist Miriam Udler and computational and cellular biologist Melina Claussnitzer will discuss what genetics is teaching us about the subtypes of type 2 diabetes, and how researchers can use that understanding as a springboard for learning how this disease really works — and what to do about it.
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Daytime photo of the new Broad Discovery Center. Photo credit: Gretchen Ertl.

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