- Academic Affairs
- The Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) supports the development and engagement of the institute’s academic research community and cultivates ties between the broader scientific community and administration, all in support of the Broad’s mission to transform biology and medicine.
- Accessibility@Broad
- Accessibility@Broad is an affinity group with the dual purpose of supporting and advocating for disabled Broadies while also promoting ethical and collaborative work impacting disabled communities outside the Broad.
- Administration
- Events for Broadies in Administration.
- Agile Academia
- AgileAcademia, a Broad affinity group, explores innovative Agile product development methods used by Broadies across the Institute.
- Bioethics@Broad
- The mission of the Bioethics@Broad group is to give Broadies a supportive environment to discuss the ethical impact of scientific work.
- BITS
- Broad Information Technology Services (BITS) provides a wide range of services that support the Institute's research mission.
- BroadCorps
- BroadCorps facilitates and supports volunteer efforts that create opportunities for our members to share their expertise, resources, and passion in collaborative ways. We aim to help build a stronger, healthier community within Broad and beyond.
- BroadWay
- BroadWay is a talk series designed to enable everyone in the Broad community to learn about — and connect with — the research that happens here. Events feature accessible talks by Broad researchers, along with extensive time for audience questions and discussion.
- Broad Discovery Center
- The Broad Discovery Center is an active, public educational space that showcases how researchers in Kendall Square and around the world are seeking to understand and treat human disease.
- BroadE Workshops
- BroadE workshops offer both lecture-based and hands-on training in rapidly evolving technologies, high-throughput methods, and computational tools that are not typically found in conventional research labs. The workshops are intended to accelerate transfer of information about methods that are either developed at the Broad or used in novel ways by Broad scientists. BroadE is supported by the Office of Academic Affairs who assist with project management and event logistics.
- BroadRATS
- BroadRATS connects and empowers Research Associates, Associate Computational Biologists, Technical Specialists, and Associate Software Engineers to foster their scientific and personal development at the Broad.
- Cancer Program
- The Broad Institute’s commitment to finding cures for cancer focuses on scientific research aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms of each type of cancer and applying this knowledge to transform the clinical practice of cancer medicine.
- Cardiovascular Disease Initiative (CVDi)
- The Broad's Cardiovascular Disease Initiative (CVDi) captures the breadth of cardiovascular research at the Broad. Members of the CVDi work closely with Broad's Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Genomics Platform, Center for the Development of Therapeutics and Data Sciences Platform.
- Cell Circuits and Epigenomics Program
- We build comprehensive models of cell and tissue circuits in order to understand how human disease arises from variations in these processes. We monitor the activities of many molecular elements that define and regulate the cell, including DNA, RNA, transcription factors, chromatin regulators, histone modifications, and signaling proteins.
- Chemical Biology and Therapeutics Science
- The primary mission of the Chemical Biology and Therapeutics Science (CBTS) Program at the Broad Institute is to support community engagement in innovative chemical biology and therapeutics research.
- Comparative Medicine
- The mission of Comparative Medicine at the Broad Institute is to support research by providing a collaborative program in the humane care and use of laboratory animals while ensuring the Broad complies with all federal, state, and local regulations.
- Data Sciences Platform (DSP)
- We build technology to help researchers connect to the patients, datasets and tools they need to do life-changing biomedical research.
- Design Affinity Group
- We are graphic artists, architects, scientific illustrators, interaction designers, and developers of visualization tools. We welcome all Broadies interested in applying design approaches and visual strategies to their work.
- Diabetes Initiative
- Members of the Diabetes Research Group are dedicated to pursuing this new area of genetics research with the aim of contributing to improved medical care for those with, or at risk of developing, type 2 diabetes.
- Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center
- Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center is enabling a new field of interdisciplinary research at the intersection of the data and life sciences, aimed at improving human health.
- Facilities
- The Facilities Department oversees maintenance, operations, grounds, utility systems, design and construction, and energy management to supply continual, uninterrupted maintenance services that provide a safe and comfortable environment at all Broad locations.
- Flow Cytometry
- The Flow Cytometry Facility is a shared resource lab that provides easy access to self or staff run instrumentation for the entire Broad community.
- Genetic Perturbation Platform (GPP)
- The Genetic Perturbation Platform (GPP) aims to accelerate the field of functional genomics, which is the toolkit of experimental approaches for understanding gene function and how gene dysfunction leads to disease.
- Genomics Platform (GP)
- The Genomics Platform has a 30-year track record of delivering on transformative projects in the field of genomics. Our goal has been two-fold: to create foundational genomics resources and capabilities for the community, and to undertake large-scale disease-based projects that pioneer approaches and advance the understanding of the genomic basis of disease and other traits.
- Global Health Initiative
- The Broad Global Health Initiative strives to improve health for all by nurturing global-minded scientists, identifying synergies across scientific communities to enhance ongoing global health work, and by creating new opportunities for impact.
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HR (incl. IDEA, BroadLife, Onboarding & People Development)
The Broad's Human Resources (HR) Department is a team of professionals dedicated to bringing the brightest talent to the institute, promoting professional development, motivating community members to achieve great things, and maintaining an outstanding team of Broadies. The HR department provides a variety of services such as recruitment, benefits and compensation administration, employee relations, and organizational development services to the Broad community.
Imaging Platform
The Broad’s Imaging Platform pioneers advanced methods and software tools to quantify and mine the rich information present in cellular images and propel discoveries in biology and medicine.
Immunology Program
The scientific community needs a comprehensive picture of the immune cells and molecular pathways that regulate physiologic and pathologic processes, in order to develop targeted medical therapies and overcome current pervasive therapeutic challenges.
Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program (IDMP)
The Broad is a leader in applying genomic technologies to the study of infectious disease and the microbiome — efforts that have implications for global health. Based primarily within the institute’s Infectious Disease and Microbiome (IDM) Program, these efforts focus on the development and use of cutting-edge tools and approaches to better understand the mechanisms underlying infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance, and the workings of the human microbiome. Our researchers seek to use this knowledge to inform the prevention and treatment of devastating diseases.
Institute Events
Institute Holidays
Calendar of all Broad-wide holidays.
Interest Groups
Our goal is to provide an opportunity for Broadies to interact and connect with one another and to promote a sense of belonging, social-emotional well-being, and physical well-being.
Jewish Community@Broad
Jewish Community@Broad is an identity-based affinity group whose mission is to create a space for Broadies who identify as Jewish, and anyone else who is interested, to come together and share with each other — and with the entire Broad community — experiences and aspects of Jewish life and culture.
Joint Seminar Series
The Joint Seminar Series features talks sponsored by the Metabolism Program, Kidney Disease Initiative, and the Units of Life Seminar Series, hosted by Vamsi Mootha, Joel Hirschhorn, and Anna Greka. JSS talks are not recorded due to confidentiality reasons.
Kidney Disease Initiative
The Broad’s Kidney Disease Initiative (KDI) aims to uncover the molecular causes of kidney diseases in order to develop precision, mechanism-based therapies.
Ladders to Cures
Medical and Population Genetics Program (MPG)
The Program in Medical and Population Genetics is a diverse community of experts from a variety of fields — population genetics, statistics, molecular biology, genomics, and bioinformatics — who collaborate to characterize genetic variants and establish their role in disease.
Metabolism Program
The goal of the Broad Metabolism Program (BMP) is to pioneer new methods to systematically investigate metabolism and exploit the resulting discoveries to decipher the metabolic basis of human disease, leading to better treatments or interventions.
Models, Inference, and Algorithms Initiative (MIA)
The Models, Inference, and Algorithms (MIA) Initiative at the Broad Institute supports learning and collaboration across the interface of biology and medicine with mathematics, statistics, machine learning, and computer science.
Muslims@Broad
Muslims@Broad is an identity-based affinity group whose mission is to create a welcoming community for Muslims and allies by raising awareness about issues affecting Muslims and advocating for policies that support Muslim Broadies and Broadies in general.
NeuroDevelopmental Variability Initiative
The Neurodevelopmental Variability Initiative (NDV) aims to advance understanding of the developing brain, and of human cognitive and behavioral differences.
Office of Strategic Alliances and Partnering (OSAP)
The Broad Institute Office of Strategic Alliances & Partnering (OSAP) strives to extend the impact of the Institute’s research by creating partnerships for the public good while protecting its researchers’ academic freedoms and generating financial resources to support future research.
Out@Broad
Out@Broad is an affinity group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQIA+) Broadies and their allies.
PM@Broad
PM@Broad is an affinity group consisting of project managers, project coordinators, product managers, and others with an interest in project management at the Broad Institute.
Program in Brain Health
The Program in Brain Health at the Broad Institute is an intellectual community characterizing the genetic and mechanistic basis of health and disease in the human brain. Our goal is to break down silos between areas of brain study and turn emerging biological findings into new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches that could benefit the hundreds of millions of people around the world living with these conditions.
Proteomics Platform
The Broad’s Proteomics Platform develops and applies advanced proteomics methods to further our understanding of disease, pathways, targets, and drug effects.
Shades@Broad (including A4C@Broad, AAA@Broad & LatinX@Broad)
Shades@Broad is an identity-based affinity group whose mission is to advocate for anti-racism and racial justice as a core Broad value, and build community. Shades is comprised of A4C@Broad , AAA@Broad (Asians and Asian-Americans@Broad), and LatinX@Broad, as well as a main Shades steering committee.
SoftEng@Broad
Staff Scientists
Broad Staff Scientists is an affinity group for the more than 500 professional scientists who work at the Institute. The group is formally represented by the Staff Scientist Development Committee (SSDC).
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research
The mission of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute is to reduce the burden of serious mental illness through research. Using our ongoing discoveries of genetic variants associated with disease as a launch point, we are contributing to new understandings of pathogenic disease mechanisms, the identification of disease biomarkers, and above all, new treatments.
Sustainability@Broad
Sustainability@Broad advocates for environmentally-minded policies and programs at Broad. Through initiatives at both grassroots and institutional levels, we seek to fulfill our responsibility as a pioneering, collaborative, and globally-reaching health research institute to restore and conserve ecosystems, protect communities, and safeguard future generations.
Units of Life Seminar Series
Join the Broad Institute’s Cell Biology community for the Units of Life Seminar Series. We have an exciting line-up of speakers, with seminars taking place on a monthly basis on Tuesday afternoons from 3:00 to 4:00pm ET.
Women@Broad
Women@Broad is an identity-based affinity group whose mission is to advocate for equitable treatment, celebrate and build community for trans and cis women as well as other marginalized genders.
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