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Leveraging Nature's genius to tackle urgent global challenges.

A Force of Nature

It takes a force of Nature – a passionate team – to leverage Nature’s genius.

Nature has the answers to the world’s big problems. Only a Force of Nature – an organization of passionate people driven by impatience, hope, and biologically-inspired engineering – can unlock those answers. By relentlessly focusing on human and planetary health, our teams are creating novel solutions in cancer, women’s health, brain health, aging, infectious disease, environmental sustainability, and beyond.

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The Wyss Effect

A cascade of innovation beyond our walls.

We combine the depth of academic science with the speed and flexibility of industry, turning groundbreaking discoveries into market-ready solutions. This unique model fuels what we call the Wyss Effect – a cascade of innovation that influences science, engineering, and technology far beyond our walls, accelerating progress for patients and the planet.

That’s the power of the Wyss Effect.

Human Ovarian Organoids to Improve Women’s Health
Human Ovarian Organoids to Improve Women’s Health

Gameto is using the Wyss Institute’s fully human ovarian organoid technology to solve the global problem of rising infertility by making IVF safer, cheaper, and more accessible.

Engineered Pig Organs for Human Transplant
Engineered Pig Organs for Human Transplant

eGenesis is working toward ending the global transplant shortage and transforming the treatment of organ failure by using CRISPR to edit the pig genome to make their organs safe for transplant in human patients.

Human Organs-on-Chips
Human Organs-on-Chips

Organ Chips are microfluidic devices lined with living human cells for drug development, disease modeling, and personalized medicine. Launched in 2014, Wyss startup Emulate, Inc., is leveraging the Wyss Institute’s Organ Chip technology to mimic human organs in vitro, enabling faster, better, and cheaper drug development and insights into human health.

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Collaboration at a Higher Level

Our scientists, engineers and clinicians, who come from Harvard's Schools of Medicine, Engineering, Arts & Sciences, and Design as well as 12 collaborating academic institutions and hospitals, work alongside staff with industrial experience in product development to engineer transformative solutions to some of the world’s greatest problems.

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