STAT July 18, 2024
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is perhaps best known for the trailblazing work coming out of the labs of its core members; CRISPR tools like David Liu’s prime and base editors, Feng Zhang’s virus-like drug delivery particles, or Pardis Sabeti’s network of low-cost diagnostics designed to catch the next pandemic before it starts. But the largest of the institute’s operations isn’t a lab at all.
Structured more like a commercial technology company, the Broad’s Data Science Platform, or DSP, is home to some 250 employees, mostly software engineers, who build tools for doing biology in the age of big data. But employees there are nervous about their future after five top...
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