Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center is enabling a new field of interdisciplinary research at the intersection of the data and life sciences, aimed at improving human health. Our researchers and partners work together to make the biological questions of our time key drivers for foundational advances in machine learning — and vice versa.

We are building a global community of researchers who develop the foundations of machine learning to enable us to understand the programs of life and how they connect across scales, from proteins to genes to organisms.

We seek to achieve our mission through three key activities:

Bringing together a wide range of researchers across the Broad Institute, MIT, and Harvard to identify key biological and computational challenges, and support flagship scientific projects.
Developing theoretical, computational, and algorithmic paradigms and generating new experimental datasets to elucidate the programs of life, and sharing them with the world.
Developing a global community at the interface of machine learning and biology and training the next generation of leaders in machine learning, statistics, and applied mathematics who drive biological discovery.

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The Schmidt Center is directed by Caroline Uhler, who is a core institute member of the Broad and the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Engineering at MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS).

Learn more about the Schmidt Center's work at ericandwendyschmidtcenter.org.