Thank you for being so interested in joining our group! Impactful research requires excellent mentoring. Prof. Zitnik is the recipient of the Young Mentor Award at Harvard Medical School—this prestigious award acknowledges that recognition to her.

Graduate students

We are taking on new PhD students every year.

If you are a current or a newly admitted PhD student interested in developing AI and machine learning methods and/or using AI to advance therapeutics and medicine, email Prof. Zitnik directly. Include your CV and a brief description of your research interests.

We are recruiting PhD students from a number of graduate programs, including Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics, Biomedical Informatics, Systems Biology, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, programs within Harvard Integrated Life Sciences, and other programs at Harvard.

We also recruit graduate students from Health Sciences & Technology at Harvard/MIT and other programs such as EECS at MIT.

Postdoctoral research fellows and students in AI & therapeutics

We are building the next generation of Therapeutics Commons!

Zitnik Lab founded Therapeutics Commons, a global open-science initiative to access and evaluate AI across therapeutic modalities (small molecules, macro-molecules, cell and gene therapies) and stages of drug discovery (from target discovery, activity modeling, efficacy, and safety, to manufacturing and post-marketing safety monitoring and drug repurposing).

We are seeking outstanding postdoctoral research fellows and students, machine learning and data specialists, biomedical AI fellows, and an AI community manager who will lead research in AI to advance molecular drug design and clinical drug development.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible.

NOW OPEN: Request For Applications

Postdoctoral research fellows in foundation AI

We have multiple openings for postdoctoral research fellows in the broad area of foundation models focusing on geometric deep learning, multimodal learning, large-scale knowledge graphs, large language models, generative AI, and AI agents.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible.

NOW OPEN: Request For Applications

Postdoctoral research fellows in medical AI

We have an opening for a postdoctoral research fellowship in novel methods in the broad area of medical AI.

This position is available immediately. Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible.

NOW OPEN: Request For Applications

Harvard/MIT undergraduates, Masters’s students, Harvard affiliates

We are looking for outstanding undergraduates, Masters’s students, and Harvard/MIT affiliates on a rolling basis. While we take students at all levels, excellent grades and/or prior experience in machine learning is a plus.

Generally, we expect:

• Students commit 20 hours per week to research.
• Students commit to at least 6 months of research with the lab (ideally more).
• Prior experience in AI and machine learning may include online courses. We encourage students to self-study relevant coursework. We provide mentoring on cutting-edge research.

Email Prof. Zitnik. Include your CV, current academic status, a summary of research experience, and brief highlights of projects.

Visitors, interns, and short-term students

We generally prioritize applications that include visits of six months or more in order to carry out a high-quality project.

Because of the large email load that Prof. Zitnik receives, she may not respond to all applicants. Do not take this personally! We do review all applications!

Harvard is an Equal Opportunity Employer.