Jane Wilkinson

Board Member

Jane is a scientific operations and alliance management executive with 20+ years of creating and delivering complex scientific goals. Jane’s scientific career began at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Genome Center, UK where she worked closely with Sir John Sulston on the C.elegans genome project. She was an early leader on the Human Genome Project, leading the Chromosome 1 initiative. In 1998 she made the leap across the Atlantic to Cambridge, MA where she led a new directive in plant genomics for Monsanto Company.

Jane worked on various initiatives at the Broad Institute for eighteen years as the Senior Director for Genomics Alliances. She created and led many projects including a new whole genome approach to the Mouse Genome Project as well as collaborative initiatives across Cancer, Mendelian, Infectious and Common Diseases. Her collaborations and partnerships have spread across the globe and have touched many groups from non-profit research teams to large pharma. Jane also led the communications and outreach program for the Broad Genomics team.

In 2021 she joined the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research as the Executive Director where her focus was on creating scientific collaborations and external relationships with clinical, commercial, government and academic partners.

Jane has a background in genetics and microbiology and has more recently focused on studying executive leadership and management at MIT Sloan Business School, Boston University and Northeastern University.