The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is now accepting applications for its 2024 Media Boot Camp.
This annual program connects health/science journalists and editors with faculty from the Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and Harvard’s teaching hospitals for a two-day event exploring the latest advances in genomics and biomedicine. Journalists will explore possible future storylines, gain fundamental background knowledge, and build relationships with researchers. The program format includes presentations, discussions, and lab tours.
The 2024 Media Boot Camp will take place in person at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA on Thursday, May 16 and Friday, May 17 (with an evening welcome reception on Wednesday, May 15).
APPLICATION DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, MARCH 22 (5:00 PM US EASTERN TIME).
2024 Boot Camp topics include:
- Gene editing
- New approaches for therapeutic delivery
- Cancer biology, drug development
- Data sciences, machine learning
- Neurobiology (stem cell models of psychiatric disorders)
- Antibiotic resistance, microbial biology
- Medical and population genetics, genomic medicine
Current speakers include: Mimi Bandopadhayay, Clare Bernard, Roby Bhattacharyya, Todd Golub, Laura Kiessling, Eric Lander, David Liu, Ralda Nehme, Heidi Rehm, William Sellers, Feng Zhang, with potentially more to come.
This Media Boot Camp is an educational offering. All presentations are on-background.
Hotel accommodations and meals during the program will be provided by the Broad Institute. Attendees must cover travel costs to and from Boston.
Application Process
By Friday, March 22 (5:00 PM US Eastern time), please send at least one paragraph describing your interest in the program and how you hope it will benefit your reporting, as well as three recent news clips, to David Cameron, Director of External Communications, dcameron@broadinstitute.org
Please contact David at dcameron@broadinstitute.org, or 617-714-7184 with any questions.
Aspects of this program are subject to change.