Research Institutes

Battelle Memorial Institute
505 King Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201
Global science & technology enterprise that develops & commercializes technology & manages laboratories for customers; based in Columbus, Ohio; has 20,000 employees; involved in thousands of technology projects

2Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) Tel: 865-576-1188
1 Science.gov Way, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
Office of the US Department of Energy (DOE) that collects, preserves, and disseminates DOE-sponsored R&D results that are the outcomes of R&D projects or other funded activities at DOE labs & facilities nationwide

3National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) Tel: 301-496-5133
31 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-2425
Research institute in Bethesda, conducting & supporting research on intellectual & developmental disabilities (IDDs) and topics related to the health of children, adults, families, & populations; a component of National Institutes of Health (NIH)

4Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Tel: 508-548-1400
266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543
World's largest private, nonprofit ocean research, engineering, & higher education organization; offers Ph.D, Master of Science, postdoctoral, & summer student fellowship programs; has research departments, ocean institutes, & labs in Woods Hole, MA

5Worldwatch Institute Tel: 202-452-1999
1776 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20036
Independent research organization offering accessible, fact-based analysis of critical global issues including climate & energy, food & agriculture, & the green economy; also monitors human health, water resources, biodiversity etc

6The MITRE Corporation Tel: 781-271-2000
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730-1420
Non-profit organization that manages three Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) for the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration & the Internal Revenue Service; based in Bedford, MA, & McLean, VA

7Broad Institute Tel: 617-714-7000
7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142
Genomics research institute whose founding partners include Harvard, Harvard Affiliated Hospitals & MIT; areas of activity include cancer, genome biology, epigenomics, cell circuits, psychiatric disease, metabolism, population genetics etc

8Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Tel: 212-998-3000
New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012-1185
Home of the departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, and the Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science at New York University; offers undergraduate programs, masters programs, PhD programs, mathematics post-doctoral programs etc

9Families and Work Institute (FWI) Tel: 212-465-2044
267 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Non-profit, non-partisan research organization in NYC, studying changing workforce, workplace, youth, early childhood, education, healthcare, families, & communities; conducts National Study of the Changing Workforce, National Study of Employers etc

10Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Tel: 206-897-2800
2301 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121
Independent research center at the University of Washington in Seattle, measuring the world's most pressing health issues & providing scientific evaluations of health system/ program performance to guide health policy & improve global health progress

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)
Tel: 303-492-6412
1234 Innovation Drive, Boulder, CO 80303-7814
Full-cycle space institute at University of Colorado at Boulder (CU), addressing key questions in solar influences, atmospheric science, planetary & space physics etc; world's only research institute to have sent instruments to all 8 planets & Pluto

12Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) Tel: 510-642-0143
17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720-5070
Institute dedicated to the advancement & communication of fundamental knowledge in mathematics & the mathematical sciences, the development of human capital for the growth & use of such knowledge, create awareness about mathematics etc

13National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Tel: 301-402-1663
6610 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-6612
Leading agency at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), conducting & supporting basic & applied research to better understand, treat, & prevent infectious, immunologic, & allergic diseases; develops therapies, vaccines, & diagnostic tests

14Population Reference Bureau (PRB) Tel: 800-877-9881
1875 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009-5728
Agency in Washington, DC, informing people around the world & in US about issues related to population, health, & environment; focuses on reproductive health & fertility, children & families, population & environment, & population futures

15Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Tel: 617-495-8608
10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
One of the world's premier institutes for advanced study, fostering transformative work in the arts, humanities, sciences, & social sciences; focuses on the study of women, gender, & society; part of Harvard University, & based in Cambridge (MA)

16Scripps Institution of Oceanography Tel: 858-822-1865
8602 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037
One of the oldest & largest centers for ocean & earth science research, education, & public service in the world; conducts physical, chemical, biological, geological, & geophysical studies of the oceans & earth; a graduate school of UC San Diego

17Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Tel: 210-522-2122
6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, TX 78228-0510
One of the oldest & largest independent, non-profit, multidisciplinary, applied engineering & physical sciences R&D organizations in the US; technical divisions: chemistry, space science, nondestructive evaluation, automation etc; HQ: San Antonio

18Stowers Institute for Medical Research Tel: 816-926-4000
1000 East 50th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Institute that conducts basic research on how genes & proteins control fundamental processes in living cells; focuses on long-term solutions to genetically-based diseases such as cancer, diabetes, dementia etc; located in Kansas City, MO

19Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) Tel: 703-845-2000
4850 Mark Center Drive, Alexandria, Virginia 22311-1882
Non-profit corporation that operates three federally funded research & development centers to provide objective analyses of national security issues, particularly those requiring scientific and technical expertise

20Allen Institute for Brain Science Tel: 206-548-7000
511 North 34th Street, Seattle, WA 98103
Independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit medical research organization dedicated to accelerating the understanding of how the human brain works; has premiere bench laboratories, custom-designed robotic systems, & a powerful computational infrastructure

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