Broad Institute
The institute was founded to seize the opportunity that arose from the Human Genome Project -- the international effort that successfully deciphered the entire human genetic code. Despite that accomplishment, scientists knew they still lacked a clear understanding of the genetic basis of disease, and how to translate that understanding into more effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
To reach these goals, it was clear that a new type of research institution had to be created. The traditional academic model of individual laboratories working within their specific disciplines was not designed to meet the emerging challenges of biomedicine. To gain a comprehensive view of the human genome and biological systems, they instead had to work in a highly integrated fashion.
That meant working in nimble teams that combined biology, chemistry, mathematics, computation, and engineering with medical science and clinical research. It also meant working at a scale usually seen in industry, with access to world-class infrastructure. At the same time, this institution had to foster an atmosphere of creativity, risk-taking, and open sharing of data and research. Finally, this new model needed to seek collaborations beyond its borders.
Broad Institute is an “experiment” in this new way of doing science. It spans some of Boston’s leading institutions (Harvard, MIT, and Harvard-affiliated hospitals) and scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, medicine, computer science, and engineering). Today, the Broad community includes more than three thousand scientists, committed to advancing research in areas including infectious disease, cancer, psychiatric research, and cardiovascular disease.
Embedded in this new approach to doing science, are our values including:
- Propelling the understanding and treatment of disease
Broad Institute is empowering a revolution in biomedicine to accelerate the pace at which the world conquers disease. - Collaborating deeply
Broad Institute is a mission-driven community that brings together researchers in medicine, biology, chemistry, computation, engineering, and mathematics from across MIT, Harvard, and the Harvard-affiliated hospitals, along with collaborators around the world. - Reaching globally
Broad Institute is committed to addressing medical challenges across the world, including collaborating with scientists and public health experts to address important needs in developing countries - Empowering scientists
Broad Institute fosters an environment in which scientists can take risks on bold ideas with transformative potential. - Building partnerships
Broad Institute works to build and sustain international consortia to speed discovery in areas including psychiatric research, infectious disease, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. - Sharing data and knowledge
Broad Institute is committed to making the extensive data, methods, and technologies it generates rapidly and readily accessible to the scientific community to drive biomedical progress around the world.
(Read about our principles for disseminating scientific innovations) - Promoting inclusion
Broad Institute believes that progress in biomedical research requires a fully inclusive community across sex, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, and gender identity.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements About The Broad Institute The Broad Institute is a remarkable institution - we apply our deep knowledge of human genetics to empower a revolution in biomedicine and accelerate the pace at which the world conquers ...
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Postdoctoral Associate - Computational Research and Development Group
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements Would you like to work at the intersection of AI and healthcare, solving complex computational problems that can transform medicine and deepen our understanding of the biological world? The newly founded Computati...
11d
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Research Associate III - Center for the Development of Therapeutics (CDoT)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements The Broad Institute is an amazing place - we exist to apply our deep knowledge of human genetics to empower a revolution in biomedicine and accelerate the pace at which the world conquers disease. The Broad Instit...
12d
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Research Administrator (All Levels), Office of Sponsored Research
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements Are you interested in being considered for roles within our Research Administrator community? Join our Research Administrator Talent Community Today! Joining our Talent Community lets our Recruiters know you're in...
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Postdoctoral Associate - Talent community for Broad-wide openings
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements Postdoctoral associates are very important members of our Broad community because they are a crucial part of making breakthroughs in our research work in human biology, health, and disease. They push scientific fr...
17d
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Research Associate II - Zhang Lab
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements The Zhang Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is looking for a full-time Research Associate with a passion for learning to join our creative, diverse, and dynamic research team. The Zhang lab is broadly ...
18d
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Senior Science Writer - Development
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is one of the world's leading biomedical research institutes. Our mission is to propel the understanding of the biological roots of human disease, with the aim of improving d...
19d
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Postdoctoral Associate - Schmidt Center
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements The Schmidt Center's mission is to create the theoretical, computational and algorithmic paradigms that will enable us to understand the programs of life and how they connect across scales, from proteins to cells ...
19d
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Postdoctoral Associate - Circuit Neuroscience and Therapeutics
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard is looking for outstanding postdoctoral scholars to join a research group led by Prabhat Kunwar, PhD. This group aims to understand the neural circuits underlying psychiatric d...
19d
| Job Type | Full Time |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements Broad Discovery Center The Broad Discovery Center is an active, public educational space that showcases how researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and our partner institutions are seeking to underst...
21d
| Job Type | Part Time |