Broad Institute hires René Salazar to tackle biomedical research's diversity problem
Amid urgent calls to diversify the biotech industry, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is bringing on a new chief equity officer who promises to start from the “top-down and ground-up.”
René Salazar, former assistant dean for diversity and professor of medicine at the University of Texas in Austin’s Dell Medical School, is now leading diversity and inclusion efforts at the Broad, the institute announced on Wednesday. And he’s not wasting any time — the new hire is helping organize a daylong virtual symposium called Belonging@Broad being held on Monday.
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