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-The Wyss Institute is really an entirely new model
of technology, innovation and collaboration
with a focus on translation
into products and commercialization.
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-The Institute is actually a place where we bring
both innovation of the academic environment
and the product development discipline of the private sector
in order to harness these innovations,
and have an impact on society.
-There are many interdisciplinary centers
around the world right now,
but they're basic research centers -
they're not focused
with an emphasis on commercialization.
They're extremely happy if things are commercialized,
but they're not set up to catalyze it in the way we are.
The feedback we're getting from industry,
it... they've never seen anything like it.
-First of all, it is a collaborative institution
in the sense that it truly brings together
researchers and clinicians, practitioners and engineers
from industry, the academic world,
and also the hospitals and universities in the Boston area.
And, it's not just a virtual institute, if you like.
These people actually come together
on the floor at our facilities
and they work together on really high-risk,
really cutting edge projects.
-So you can have groups that consist of clinicians
as well as engineers and cell biologists,
and people from the different platforms
contributing to a project,
and that's quite unique - I mean, we can really bring
in everybody's strengths to help propel a project.
-Our objective and strategy has been
to harness the intellectual power
that the region provides,
and create this collaborative consortium
between the various schools at Harvard
the Harvard-affiliated score of hospitals
and other academic institutions in the area like BU,
UMass, MIT, and so on and so forth.
-When we meet with them, we hear their exact needs
that- the little things that we might miss otherwise,
if we're just in the lab.
-Their people, you know,
can walk over here, for a meeting.
We can walk over there, because we can actually interact
on a very regular basis
and just get together and talk about things.
Yeah, I think it's gonna at least double
the rate at which we can move forward,
if not a lot faster.
-So The Wyss has developed a way
to essentially provide support -
resources in terms of people, facilities, space -
that bring people beyond what they would have done
or written on their own,
give us an exciting high-risk challenge
that you want to face, that you can't solve
unless you collaborate.
-This has the potential, I think, of really, ah,
transforming the way cancer's treated in the future.
-Ah, it's called a human breathing lung-on-a-chip,
ah, and this device mimics a breathing human lung.
-Design new surfaces,
design new materials that prevent ice formation.
-And what we can do with our vibrating insoles
is take a seventy-five-year-old and have them balance
as well as a twenty-five-year-old.
-When we have babies wear the second skin
for an extended period of time,
we've promoted new connection patterns
in their developing brain.
-This is not a model
that anyone's ever done before.
I think we aspire to see this spread,
and we can't just do it from one site.
I truly believe that this is
the next major wave of science and technology,
and it's really now how biology is weaving in.
It's not just for medicine, the environment, manufacturing -
we have these incredible challenges
we face as a, as a world, as a globe,
that we're not going to solve
with current technologies,
and The Wyss provides us
with support, funds, people, passion and enthusiasm
to basically give it a shot.
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