The mission of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Genetics is to promote outstanding scientific excellence in genetic research in a hospital-based environment, and to provide an interface between genetics and clinical medicine.
Members of the Division of Genetics outside of
Harvard Medical School.
The division has long emphasized outstanding basic genetic research as its principal academic enterprise. The research interests represented within the division span a wide range of areas within contemporary genetics, and include genome science, bioinformatics, human genetics (including complex disease genetics and genetic variation), developmental and cancer genetics and gene therapy, and proteomics and metalloproteomics, trace metal metabolism, and redox biology. The division has changed dramatically during the past five years. The recruitment of new research faculty has greatly extended the division’s research capabilities and grant portfolio. For example, the number of personnel in the division increased from 35 in 2001 to nearly 150 today, and will continue to grow.