Broad Institute Security Department supports COVID-19 testing facility
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has served as one of the largest processors of COVID-19 tests in the country. The Security Team has supported these efforts in myriad ways, helping maintain business continuity and ensure campus safety, visitor management, and compliance with COVID-19 safety protocols.
In late March 2020, before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak as a global pandemic, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard — a research organization that convenes a community of researchers from across many disciples and partner institutions, such as MIT, Harvard and Harvard-affiliated hospitals — rapidly converted their large-scale genomics facility into a center that processes SARS-CoV-2 tests.
Frustrated with the lack of COVID-19 testing, the Broad Institute reimagined its highly-automated Clinical Research Sequencing Platform, LLC (CRSP) — a CLIA-certified and accredited by the College of American Pathologists — to help increase the capacity for diagnostic testing for COVID-19 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.