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.

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.
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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.
The world can't wait.
With your support, we will move discoveries out of the lab and into the world, where they can do the most good – right now.
The world can't wait.
With your support, we will move discoveries out of the lab and into the world, where they can do the most good – right now.