The Allen Institute for Cell Science is a research institute established by

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, Washington on 8 December 2014. The institute is modelled in large part on the

Allen Institute for Brain Science The Allen Institute for Brain Science is a division of the Allen Institute, based in Seattle, Washington, that focuses on bioscience research. Founded in 2003, it is dedicated to accelerating the understanding of how the human brain works. Wit ...

and received the same initial financial commitment from Allen— over five years. The two Institutes also share the same building. The focus of the institute will be "How does information encoded in our genes become living cells, and what goes wrong when a disease affects those cells?" All data generated and research tools developed by the institute will be made publicly available online. The inaugural

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for the institute is Rick Horwitz, formerly of the

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. Among those serving on the institute's

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, chairwoman of the Department of Cell Biology at

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