Dr. Broach is currently serving as Associate Chair and Professor at Princeton University, Department of Molecular Biology.

Dr. Broach completed his undergraduate studies at Yale University and was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1969. In 1973, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley where he also completed his predoctoral fellowship in Biochemistry, and postdoctoral fellowship in medical Physics. In addition, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory, upon which he was employed in the capacity of a Staff Scientist. Subsequently, he joined the State University of New York at Stony Brook as an Assistant/Associate professor, a position he held just prior to serving in his current position at Princeton University.

In the past, Dr. Broach has served as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the American Cancer Society, an Investigator for the American Heart Association, a Fellow with the American Academy of Microbiology, and a member of the National Institutes of Health’s Genetics Section. He has also served as an Associate Editor for the journals Cell and Molecular and Cellular Biology and Associate Editor for the Journal Cell. He also served as Co-Chairman of the 1991 Gordon Conference on Extrachromosomal Elements and Chairman of the 1993 Gordon Conference on Plasmid and Chromosome Dynamics

He was appointed to the Board of Trustees in April 2007.