Broad Institute - Core Members

Core Members

The faculty and staff of the Broad Institute include physicians, geneticists, and molecular, chemical, and computational biologists. The Faculty currently includes ten Core Members, whose labs are primarily located within the Broad Institute, and 135 Associate Members, whose primary labs are located at one of the universities or hospitals.

The Core Members of the Broad Institute currently are:

• David Altshuler, a clinical endocrinologist and human geneticist, is director of the Medical and Population Genetics program. He studies human genetic variation and its application to disease, using tools and information from the Human Genome Project. He is a 2010 appointee to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

• Paul Blainey

• Todd Golub, a physician-researcher, is director of the Cancer program. He applies genomic tools to the classification and study of cancers.

• Myriam Heiman

• Deborah Hung is a chemical biologist and an infectious disease physician who studies the interactions between pathogens and their hosts, with the goal of discovering new antibiotic targets.

• Steven Hyman is the director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research.

• Eric Lander is the director of the Broad Institute. A geneticist, molecular biologist and mathematician, Lander has been a driving force in the development of genomics and a prominent leader of the Human Genome Project.

• Aviv Regev is a computational biologist with interests in biological networks, gene regulation and evolution.

• Stuart Schreiber is director of the Chemical Biology program. He has developed systematic ways to explore biology, especially disease biology, using small molecules toward the development of therapeutic drugs.

• Edward Scolnick

• Feng Zhang