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The Yang Tan Collective unites scientists, engineers, clinicians, and computational researchers across institutions to pursue bold ideas beyond traditional boundaries. Philanthropic support drives breakthrough research, trains future leaders, and accelerates technologies and therapies that improve lives worldwide.
The Yang Tan Collective was founded on a simple but powerful belief: that transformative discoveries emerge when extraordinary people are empowered to pursue ambitious ideas across traditional boundaries. Bringing together scientists, engineers, clinicians, and computational researchers from MIT, Harvard, University of Cambridge, and beyond, the Collective creates an environment where bold questions can be explored and breakthroughs can move more rapidly from insight to impact.
Philanthropic support fuels every aspect of our mission. It enables researchers to pursue the most innovative ideas in the lab, provides exceptional training opportunities for the next generation of scientific leaders, and accelerates the translation of technologies and therapies that improve human lives. From restoring natural movement in persons with amputations to pioneering clean water technologies for the Global South to revealing new understandings of autism spectrum disorders, support for the Yang Tan Collective turns bold discoveries into solutions that can benefit people around the world.
Philanthropic opportunities include named research funds for projects or areas of interest, graduate student fellowships, and strategic seed investments that enable talented researchers to translate discoveries into real-world impact. To inquire about supporting the Collective, please contact Kara Flyg at kflyg (at) mit (dot) edu or via phone at 617-324-0134.