Noel Burtt

Noël Burtt is the Associate Director, Operations for Diabetes Research at the Broad Institute, providing organizational leadership and developing research strategies for the program. She defines and stewards new collaborations/research initiatives, identifies funding opportunities, and performs resource allocation and planning. She also oversees operations and external relations for the Accelerating Medicines Partnership for Type 2 Diabetes (AMP-T2D) Program and leads scientific operations for the AMP-T2D Data Coordinating Center. She is responsible for the continued growth of the T2D Knowledge Portal and that of the emerging Knowledge Portals for additional complex diseases.
Noël began her career developing technologies for genotyping and sequencing at the Whitehead Center for Genome Research (now the Broad Institute), and transitioned into scientific project management for an array of international genome-wide association studies. Building standardized approaches to data and analysis activities, communication and data sharing, and organizational and operational procedures in order to promote collaboration has been a consistent theme throughout her career.