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We're honored to have made the 2019 Working Mother 100 Best Companies List for our commitment to forward-thinking workplace programs in the areas of women's advancement, parental leave, child care assistance, mentorship and flexibility. Read more about why we made the list here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vM0QG
Katie Geiger-Schuller initially aspired to a career in international politics, but after a high school chemistry class, she never looked back. Now a postdoc in the Aviv Regev lab, Katie works to see how alterations in genes and the proteins they encode can lead to disease, and how treatments could be developed to target them. Read more about Katie in a Why I Science Q&A: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vM0vS
Broad Schmidt Fellow Fei Chen brings an infectious enthusiasm and love of bold ideas to his science that inspires those around him. It has also led to the creation of innovative microscopy tools, one of which enables researchers to see details of cells with a standard microscope that would usually be invisible and another that can determine the location and gene expression of cells within a tissue. Learn more about Fei’s story and his research in a Broad blog: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMcdl
“Today, scientists are really dependent on software tools and cloud resources to do groundbreaking work, and I feel it's my responsibility to build a bridge between tech and science.” - Ruchi Munshi, Broad software product manager. After studying biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Ruchi Munshi did research on diagnostic biomarkers for skin cancer at Boston University School of Medicine — work she particularly enjoyed because of its connection to patients. Today, as a software product manager at the Broad, she emphasizes the importance of a similar connection to the end-users of her team’s tools. Learn more about Ruchi’s transition from the lab to data science and how software empowers researchers in a #WhyIScience Q&A: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMlp6 #software #softwareengineer #softwareengineering #BroadInstitute #Broadies #productmanager #softwareproductmanager http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMlpW
Anne Stevenson of the Broad Institute and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has created a collaborative effort called NeuroGAP-Psychosis that aims to study the genetics of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in Africa. NeuroGAP-Psychosis hopes to recruit 35,000 people in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda to answer questions about their health, lifestyle and mental illness, and donate two teaspoons of saliva for DNA testing. With the data, the researchers will be looking for clinically relevant genetic differences that might be found in people of African descent and may be less common in people of European descent. These findings could lead to the creation of new medicines that will help not only people of African descent, but potentially people of all ancestries around the globe. #genetics #schizophrenia #bipolar #mentalillness http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vM42E
Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain cancer that is difficult to treat, often killing patients less than two years after diagnosis. Research using single-cell RNA sequencing recently published in Cell hints at the reason for this resistance: glioblastoma cells have four main states and can flip between them. This potentially enables them to evade current therapeutics. Understanding the cells’ state plasticity could help inform the development of new and better treatments. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMthq
CRISPR technology comprises a growing collection of tools that can manipulate genes and their expression, and researchers from the Broad Institute have just added one more: RESCUE, a molecular editor that can convert cytosine bases to uridine in RNA. The new tool significantly expands the landscape that CRISPR technology can target, and enables easier targeting of sites that regulate the activity and function of many proteins. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMtgn
"A new study of marathoners, mice and their respective intestines toys with that possibility. It finds that strenuous endurance exercise by human athletes increases the numbers of certain bugs in their microbiomes and that giving those bacteria to mice allows them to run longer." Read more in this news story by The New York Times. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMEMZ
In a #WhyIScience Q&A, Broad Institute research scientist Donald Raymond explains how X-ray crystallography reveals the secrets of proteins and informs drug-related research http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMElU
Today’s our 15th birthday! 15 years ago today, MIT, Harvard, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital came together to launch the Broad Institute. Together, the scientists from across this community are tackling some of the biggest challenges in biomedicine. Here’s to many decades more of progress toward understanding, preventing, and treating disease! #BroadAt15 http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMEFm
