James Broach, PhD, currently serves as Associate Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton’s Department of Molecular Biology. He is also Associate Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology.

Dr. Broach completed his undergraduate studies at Yale University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. At the University of California, Berkeley he received a Ph.D. in biochemistry and also completed a predoctoral fellowship in biochemistry, and postdoctoral fellowship in medical physics. In addition, Dr. Broach completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory. Prior to joining Princeton in 1984, Dr. Broach was an assistant/associate professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Dr. Broach has served as a postdoctoral fellow with the American Cancer Society, an investigator with 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.

He was appointed to the Board of Trustees in April 2007. His term will expire in 2012.