The Broad Institute is made up of three types of organizational units: core member laboratories, research programs, and platforms. The institute's scientific research programs include: Cancer Program Program in Medical and Population Genetics Genome Biology and Cell Circuits Program Chemical Biology Program Metabolism Program Infectious Disease Program Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program Epigenomics Program Vertebrate Genomics Program The Broad Institute's platforms are teams of professional scientists who focus on the discovery, development, and optimization of the technological tools that Broad and other researchers use to conduct research. The platforms include: Data Sciences Platform Genomics Platform Imaging Platform Metabolite Profiling Platform Proteomics Platform Genetic Perturbation Platform Therapeutics Platform Therapeutics Projects Group The Broad Institute also supports the Data Visualization Initiative led by the Institute creative director Bang Wong, which is aimed at developing data visualizations to explore and communicate research findings. Core members The faculty and staff of the Broad Institute include physicians, geneticists, and molecular, chemical, and computational biologists. The faculty currently includes 11 Core Members, whose labs are primarily located within the Broad Institute, and 195 Associate Members, whose primary labs are located at one of the universities or hospitals. The Core Members of the Broad Institute include: Paul Blainey is an expert in microfluidic systems to study single molecules and cells; one of the main aims of his lab is to make single-cell analysis routine. Todd Golub, a physician-researcher, is the director of the Broad Institute. He applies genomic tools to the classification and study of cancers. Myriam Heiman combines genetics, biochemistry, and cell biology to study the features that define different types of neurons and their vulnerability to disease. 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 founding 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. David R. Liu is a chemist and a chemical biologist, the Director of the Merkin Institute, the inventor of DNA-templated synthesis, phage-assisted directed evolution and Cas9/CRISPR base-editing. Aviv Regev is a computational biologist with interests in biological networks, gene regulation and evolution. Stuart Schreiber