Bridging Research

B ridging Research's mission is to bridge the gap between the will to do research and the means to do research by providing surplus, functioning lab equipment from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine campus to labs in need in developing countries.

Equipping developing countries to do more research allows research laboratories to investigate diseases, bacteria, parasites etc. that are more prevalent in their regions. Many infectious diseases exist in the developing world that are not prevalent in the industrial world, and consequently, there is less research done on these diseases and infectious agents, leading to less understanding, and treatment options available to people in the developing countries. We hope that a group like Bridging Research will eventually have wide-spread effects such as reducing global "brain drain", the incidence of professionals leaving their developing country of origin to work in industrialized nations.

Buying new equipment and lab supplies costs much more for researchers in developing countries than it costs us here in the United States--sometimes double the price. Because there are few suppliers in their countries, they must source equipment and ship it from the U.S. Therefore, the amount of donated equipment we are able to send them is well worth the price of shipping for these laboratories.