"The McGovern Institute was created at the start of this new century, with a mandate to lead the world into a new era of systems neuroscience, the study of brain systems and behavior. The need is enormous. Millions of people of every age and nationality suffer from brain disorders. Individuals suffer, loved ones suffer, and societies pay an untold price. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, schizophrenia, autism, dyslexia and macular degeneration all cry out for cures. Problems of learning and perception demand better treatments."
—Robert Desimone, Director

Your gift to the McGovern Institute for Brain Research is an investment in the most talented concentration of neuroscientists anywhere in the world. McGovern Institute scientists are engaged in the most exciting scientific inquiry of the 21st century - one certain to have a profound impact on human health and well being.

Donors may choose to contribute to people, to programs and places, to prestigious fellowships and career development chairs, to innovative areas of neuroscience research, or to our magnificent new state-of-the-art building that houses the laboratories of sixteen senior investigators and hundreds of graduate students, fellows, and guests of the Institute.

Your gift can also help us to create new knowledge by providing support for cutting-edge research projects that promise to translate into new ways to diagnose and treat brain disorders and diseases. To make a gift online through the MIT Giving Website, please click on the following link to the McGovern Institute for Brain Research Discretionary Fund.

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Laurie Ledeen
Development and Special Projects Officer
McGovern Institute
MIT, Building 46-3160
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 324-0134
ledeen@mit.edu