Jennifer Baldwin

Jennifer Baldwin is director of the Genome Sequencing Platform (GSP), the largest platform at the Broad Institute and the largest platform of its kind in the world. In this capacity, she oversees high-throughput sequencing, finishing, production informatics, and project management.

From 1997 to 2000, Baldwin worked at the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, now part of the Broad Institute. During her tenure, she served in various leadership roles, including project manager for the SNP consortium project, which is a collaborative effort to produce a public resource of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), or unique DNA sequence variations, in the human genome. Baldwin also was coordinator of the Human Genome Project’s genome finishing team working on inspecting and improving the quality of the completed human genome sequence. She also managed the laboratory training team responsible for increasing the scale of the sequencing operation for the Human Genome Project.

After receiving her M.B.A., Baldwin returned to the Broad Institute in 2002 and served as project manager for the final phase of the Human Genome Project before becoming platform director.

Baldwin received her B.S. in biology from James Madison University and her M.B.A. from Yale School of Management.