Whitehead Institute
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit research institute located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States that is dedicated to improving human health through basic biomedical research.Photo: Madcoverboy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Office building
- Description: non-profit biomedical research institute
- Also known as: “Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research” and “Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research”
- Address: 455 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include MIT Museum and Sean Collier Memorial.
MIT Museum
Museum
The MIT Museum, founded in 1971, is part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It hosts collections of holography, technology-related artworks, artificial intelligence, architecture, robotics, maritime history, and the history of MIT. MIT Museum is situated 970 feet southeast of Whitehead Institute.
Sean Collier Memorial
Work of art
Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sean Collier Memorial is a large abstract environmental sculpture located on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sean Collier Memorial is situated 470 feet southwest of Whitehead Institute.
Draper Laboratory
University building
Draper Laboratory is an American non-profit research and development organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The laboratory specializes in the design, development, and deployment of advanced technology solutions to problems in national security, defence, space exploration, health care and energy. Draper Laboratory is situated 530 feet northwest of Whitehead Institute.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kendall Square and Wellington-Harrington.
Kendall Square
Locality
Kendall Square is a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The square itself is located at the intersection of Main Street and Broadway.
Wellington-Harrington
Neighborhood
Wellington-Harrington, also known as Area 3, is a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Overlapping with Inman Square and Kendall Square, it is bounded by Hampshire Street and Broadway on the southwest, the Grand Junction railroad tracks on the east, and the Somerville town line on the north.
East Cambridge
Neighborhood
Photo: Tim Pierce, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East Cambridge is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. East Cambridge is bounded by the Charles River and the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston on the east, the Somerville border on the north, Broadway and Main Street on the south, and the railroad tracks on the west.
Whitehead Institute
- Categories: biological research institute, facility, building, and office
- Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.36346° or 42° 21′ 48″ northLongitude
-71.08939° or 71° 5′ 22″ westElevation
10 feet (3 metres)Levels
7Open location code
87JC9W76+96OpenStreetMap ID
way 29650632OpenStreetMap feature
building=officeGeoNames ID
4955508Wikidata ID
Q825987
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Whitehead Institute” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “怀特海德生物医学研究所”
- Chinese: “怀特海德研究所”
- Chinese: “怀特黑德生物医学研究所”
- Chinese: “懷特黑德生物醫學研究所”
- Chinese: “白石研究中心”
- French: “Institut Whitehead pour la recherche biomédicale”
- French: “Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research”
- Galician: “Whitehead Institute”
- German: “Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research”
- German: “Whitehead Institute”
- German: “Whitehead-Institut für biomedizinische Forschung”
- Hebrew: “מכון וייטהד”
- Indonesian: “Whitehead Institute”
- Italian: “Whitehead Institute”
- Japanese: “ホワイトヘッド研究所”
- Malay: “Institut Whitehead”
- Persian: “مؤسسه تحقیقات زیستپزشکی وایتهد”
- Persian: “موسسه تحقیقات زیستپزشکی وایتهد”
- Spanish: “Whitehead Institute”
- Ukrainian: “Вайтгедський інститут біомедичних досліджень”
- Ukrainian: “Вайтгедський інститут”
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