About
The Wyss Institute at Harvard University is a research and development engine for disruptive innovation powered by bioinspired technologies with visionary people at its heart.
Our Mission
The Wyss Institute transforms bold ideas into real-world impact. Inspired by Nature, we develop solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges and accelerate their path to market through collaboration, startups, and industry partnerships.
Our Model
Our unique model of technology translation breaks down the traditional silos of academia and barriers with industry, enabling our world-leading visionary faculty to collaborate creatively across our Platforms and Initiatives to tackle urgent global challenges.
Our Story
Since our founding in 2009, we have demonstrated our ability to generate a pipeline of groundbreaking ideas and invent breakthrough technologies that address global challenges in healthcare and the environment through interdisciplinary collaboration, both within Harvard and through partnerships with leading institutions in the Boston/Cambridge ecosystem and around the world.
Our Values
Our Wyss Community Values represent the ideals that we as an Institute hope to embody and foster across all levels of our organization and were decided upon collectively through extensive input from all team members. We excel in embodying some of these values, while others represent our aspirations, illustrating the ideal work culture we aim to achieve and are actively working towards.
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Our Technologies
Our technologies are developed through strategic partnerships with industry, government, foundations, investors and philanthropists, and they are rapidly brought to the marketplace through licensing agreements and the creation of new startups. By harnessing the ingenuity of our 12 Core and 11 Associate Faculty, the Wyss Institute enables a significant portion of all intellectual property and startups that emerge from Harvard annually, with more than 1,750 issued patents, 153 licensing agreements, and 71 startups launched since our inception.
