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We love to spotlight those team members with roles whose visibility runs counter to their success. The smoother the lab runs, the easier it is to forget that people like Suzannah, with her no-nonsense, can-do demeanor, are the backbone of everything we are doing here.

Congratulations to the winners of the Stuart L. Schreiber Prize in Scientific Excellence for Graduate Studies presented at the Broad Institute annual retreat! Jiaqi Zhang (top) won for outstanding work on causal inference AI and Smriti Pandey (bottom) for pushing the frontiers of genome editing.

Arena co-founder Stuart Schreiber, together with Doug Melton and Michael Mina, talked to Harvard Magazine about recognizing an opportunity to transform medicine by overcoming inherent inefficiencies in the current ecosystem. https://lnkd.in/eje8RYfx

It's been a year of growth for Arena, so we were delighted to strengthen bonds and forge new ones while flexing our arcade skills at the holiday party. As we look ahead to the next year, Arena's focus continues to be human-biology-first. Emphasis on human.

We are delighted to congratulate Arena co-founder Stuart Schreiber (2nd from right) on being awarded the Robert Koch Gold Medal in Berlin last week by the Robert Koch Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to supporting science. Photo ©RobertKochStiftung

Dave is a dreamer and a doodler who won our first t-shirt design contest, but you won't find him at the back of the class. His laid-back vibe belies a mind bursting with ideas and insights that challenge, inspire, and fuel an infectious desire to turn them into hope for patients.

Ziyi Chen and Alex Wolff popped over from Arena to talk about challenges in predicting protein binding to small molecules at Connecting the Dots: Biology at Scale in the Age of AI, hosted by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Dara Leto exudes the gentle selflessness of a true dog person. But when it comes to finding opportunities to reach across disciplines and form meaningful collaborations, she is as tenacious as the objects of her affection and has just as good a nose for finding worthwhile paths.

First-time dad Travis Blum knows that bringing something new into the world is hard, messy work, and about the most rewarding thing a person can do. He reaches beyond his job description to help in any way he can, his apologetic smile forever signaling regret for time's finitude.

Nicole, like many, charted her course during the Great Recession. Opting to forgo a Ph.D. (you'd never guess), she forged on to become a leader in computational biology—most recently at Pfizer—while building a family. She is thrilled to see today's buffet of post-Ph.D. options.