Todd Golub

Broad Institute

TODD GOLUB is the director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and a founding core member of the institute.  He is also a member of the faculty of the  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and  Harvard Medical School. Golub is a world-renowned physician-scientist who pioneered the application of genomics to cancer biology and therapeutic discovery. He is one of the first researchers to use genomic approaches to molecularly characterize human tumors,  laying the foundation for the use of genomics to classify, diagnose, and treat cancer. Throughout his career, Golub has advocated for the free,  rapid sharing of large-scale genomic data and tools to accelerate the pace of biomedicine, and is deeply committed to patient-focused research.