Boston Biomedical Research Institute (BBRI) was a non-profit institution concentrating on basic biomedical research to promote the understanding of human diseases (including heart disease, cancer, muscular dystrophy and Alzheimer's etc.).
BBRI was founded in the late 1960s, and relied on federal money to fund most of its research.
[1] In 2008 it received a grant to establish a muscular dystrophy research center.
In the face of a shrinking endowment and decrease of NIH funds, the BBRI Board of Trustees recommended in September, 2012 that the Institute begin a dissolution process.
[5] BBRI was also negotiating with Tufts HMO to sell its 1.3 acre property in Watertown, Massachusetts.