Board of Directors
Board members include representatives from our partner institutions and other world-class leaders from science, education, and business. These individuals serve as stewards of the institute, helping ensure it fulfills its mission to transform medicine.
Founding Director
As founding director, Eric S. Lander plays a leading role in shaping the conception, development, distillation, and execution of ӳý’s scientific directions to drive the ӳý community’s shared impact. He also serves as a key mentor and strategist to ӳý’s scientific community and administrative leadership, especially around issues of major strategic and scientific importance.
Executive Leadership Team
This team shares expertise across scientific, academic, and administrative disciplines to set strategy and guide operations of the institute. Our collaborative structure encourages scientists and administrators to pursue bold new ideas together.
Scientific Leadership Team
This team of scientists stewards the ӳý’s scientific vision, directions, and execution. The SLT identifies promising directions, gathers perspectives, and develops plans for consideration by the ӳý community.
Core and Institute Members
ӳý’s faculty are faculty members of MIT, Harvard or one of the Harvard-affiliated hospitals. They are full citizens of their home institutions – including having full teaching and other responsibilities. Institute Members are deeply engaged in the intellectual life of ӳý and are responsible for setting its scientific direction.
Institute Scientists
ӳý’s institute scientists play a key role in catalyzing scientific connections across the ӳý community and beyond; engaging in key institutional issues, developments and decisions, including shaping scientific priorities; fostering the continual renewal of the ӳý community by recruiting, mentoring and supporting a new generation of young scientists; and strengthening the ӳý community.
Administration
Our administrative team works in close partnership with our scientists to advance ӳý's mission through innovation, discipline, and agility.
Board of Scientific Counselors
Members review the institute's scientific progress and provide advice on future scientific directions.