Ben Read is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, a position held since July 2021. Prior to this role, Ben Read served as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from October 2016 to August 2021. Ben Read completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biomedical/Medical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2021 and earned a Bachelor's degree in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Washington between 2011 and 2015.
Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard
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The Ragon Institute was established in 2009 with a dual mission: to contribute to the accelerated discovery of an HIV/AIDS vaccine and subsequently establish itself as a world leader in the collaborative study of immunology. Founded with a commitment of $100 million from Phillip T. (Terry) and Susan M. Ragon, and with an additional $200 million gift to endow the Institute announced on April 26, 2019, the Institute is structured and positioned to significantly contribute to a global effort to successfully develop an HIV/AIDS vaccine by: • Creating non-traditional partnerships among experts with different but complementary backgrounds; • Providing a means for rapidly funding promising studies; • Integrating key facets of vaccine development efforts that have tended to follow separate tracks; • Providing a substantial pool of accessible, flexible funding that lowers the threshold for scientists to pursue risky, unconventional avenues of study that are unlikely to attract funding from traditional sources. Such funding encourages innovation, compresses the time it takes to conduct bench-to-bedside research and attracts new minds to the field. The Ragon Institute creates a singular opportunity and environment to engage scientists, engineers and clinicians in challenging research for which there is no greater benefit – saving lives and curing the ill.