The
MGH Burn Research Center has a longstanding collaboration among three
independent institutions: The Massachusetts General Hospital, The
Shriners Hospital for Children - Boston, and The Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. The collaboration has greatly expanded the advanced
resources available to the Center’s investigators for the studies,
including μPET camera imaging, NMR imaging and Q-TOF mass spectroscopy.
Founded in 1811, The Massachusetts General
Hospital (MGH) is the third-oldest general hospital in the
United States and the oldest and largest in New England. The 875-bed
world-renowned medical center offers sophisticated diagnostic and
therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of
medicine and surgery. Each year the MGH admits approximately 43,000
inpatients and handles almost 1.4 million visits in its extensive
outpatient programs at the main campus and at its four health centers,
in the Back Bay, Charlestown, Chelsea and Revere. The MGH conducts
the largest hospital-based research program in the United States,
with an annual research budget of more than $400 million. It is the
oldest and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and
nearly all of the hospital's active staff physicians are on the Harvard
Medical School faculty.
Visit MGH at:
http://www.massgeneral.org
 The
Shriners Hospital in Boston has been a leader in burn research
and treatment since opening in 1968. Treatment is provided for severe
burn injuries and related scarring, along with physical and emotional
rehabilitation. For over 80 years, the 22 Shriners Hospitals have
provided excellent medical care to approximately 735,000 children
with orthopedic problems, burns and spinal cord injuries. Founded
in 1922 by the Shriners of North America and today supported by
the more than 450,000 members of the international Shriners fraternity,
this network of pediatric specialty hospitals is located across
the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Visit the Shriners at: http://www.shrinershq.org/
 The
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - a coeducational,
privately-endowed research university - is dedicated to advancing
knowledge and educating students in science, technology, and other
areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world
in the 21st century. The Institute admitted its first students in
1865 and currently has more than 900 faculty and 10,000 undergraduate
and graduate students. It is organized into five schools that contain
27 academic departments, as well as many interdisciplinary programs,
laboratories, and centers whose work cuts across traditional departmental
boundaries. The board of trustees, known as the Corporation, consists
of about 75 national and international leaders in higher education,
business and industry, science, engineering and other professions.
Fifty-nine alumni, faculty, researchers and staff have won Nobel
Prizes. MIT's research interests extend globally through creative
collaborations with leading research institutes and consortia in
the United States and around the world.
Visit MIT at: http://web.mit.edu/
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