Eli Broadâs medical research legacy will âtouch almost the whole worldâ By Bryan Marquard and Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff,Updated May 7, 2021, 7:34 a.m. Email to a Friend Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe Broad, in 2015.Chris Pizzello/Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Among scientists around the world, Eli Broadâs name will forever be tied to the role the institute he founded played in helping the region emerge from the global pandemic, and the foundation it provided for researchers who are seeking to identify and contain variants of the COVID-19 virus. But Broad, who died April 30, also will be remembered by families, such as the Chakrabartis in Cambridge, for what the Broad Institute of MIT and Cambridge has done on an individual level, bringing the intellectual clout of a major research institute to bear on a rare illness.