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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Principal Software Engineer - GATK
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements About the role GATK, HTSJDK, and Picard are foundational infrastructure for the global genomics community - with tens of millions of downloads, tens of thousands of scientific citations, and a documented footprint...
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Associate Director of Strategic Operations & Partnerships
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements The Broad Institute stands on the leading edge of biomedical research, with a mission to broadly disseminate discoveries and information to the scientific community to propel the understanding and treatment of dis...
1d
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Computational Scientist II - Karczewski Lab
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join the Karczewski lab in the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit (ATGU) at the Broad Institute and MGH. We are looking for a computational scientist II wi...
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Software Engineer II - GTEx Group
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx; http://gtexportal.org) group at the Broad Institute is looking for exceptional candidates to join these efforts, with a focus on characterizing how genetic variation regulates...
2d
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Project Coordinator II, Center for Human Brain Variation
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard is looking for an outstanding Project Coordinator II to provide comprehensive project management for the Center for Human Brain Variation. The mission of the Center is to addre...
3d
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Computational Scientist I - Digital Pathology Image Analysis
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is the world's leading biomedical research institute dedicated to the bold mission of using the full power of genomics to transform the understanding and treatment of disease...
4d
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Postdoctoral Associate - The Getz Lab
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements Overview: The Getz Lab (at the Broad Institute and MGH) is a world-leading laboratory for cancer genome analysis. We develop highly innovative, robust, and widely-used computational methods to study the molecular ...
6d
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Postdoctoral Associate - Computational Biology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard is seeking a highly motivated computational Postdoctoral Associate to join the Haber Lab and Klarman Cell Observatory to discover the complex cellular processes and structures ...
8d
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Description & Requirements The Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) team at the Broad Institute develops and translates artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to address important problems in human health. ML4H brings together m...
8d
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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...
9d
| Job Type | Full Time |