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Advisors

Our Advisors

We’ve cultivated a community of thought leaders and advisors. Their invaluable input and perspectives shape how we approach our research.  

Allen Institute Scientific Advisory Board

David J. Anderson, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Thomas L. Daniel, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Michael Ehlers, M.D., Ph.D.
Limelight Bio & Apple Tree Partners
Michael Elowitz, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Daniel H. Geschwind, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Marshall S. Horwitz, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Washington
Story Landis, Ph.D.
Former Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Ruth Lehmann, Ph.D.
Whitehead Institute
Roderic Ivan Pettigrew
NIBIB / NIH ( 2002-2017), Texas A&M and Houston Methodist
Naveen Rao, Ph.D.
Self-Employed
Michael P. Stryker, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco

Next Generation Leaders Council

Aparna Bhaduri, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Clint Cave, Ph.D.
Middlebury College
Lucas Cheadle, Ph.D.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Emilia Favuzzi, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Yvette Fisher, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Arif Hamid, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota Medical School
Christina Kim, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis.
Fenna Krienen, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Scott Linderman, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Michael Lodato, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Bianca Jones Marlin, Ph.D.
Columbia University
Lucas Pinto, M.D., Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Cindy Poo, Ph.D.
Champalimaud Research
Kanaka Rajan, Ph.D.
School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Nick Steinmetz, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Jessica Tsai, M.D., Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Z Yan Wang, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Eric Yttri, Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University

Allen Institute Technology Advisory Council

Esther Dyson
Wellville
Oren Etzioni, Ph.D.
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Bruce Hendrickson, Ph.D.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Sherry Marcus, Ph.D.
Blackrock
Arvind Parthasarathy
Cyence
Naveen Rao, Ph.D.
Self-Employed
Matt Wood, Ph.D.
Amazon Web Services

Brain Science Scientific Advisory Council

Paola Arlotta, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Edward M. Callaway, Ph.D.
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Rosa Cossart, Ph.D.
French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm)
Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University
Viren Jain, Ph.D.
Google
Erich Jarvis, Ph.D.
Rockefeller University
Liqun Luo, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Eve Marder, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
Botond Roska, M.D., Ph.D.
Institute for Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel
Barbara Treutlein, Ph.D.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH Zürich)

MindScope Scientific Advisory Council

Jessica Cardin, Ph.D.
Yale University
Anne K. Churchland, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Adrienne Fairhall, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Sonja Hofer, Ph.D.
University College London
David McCormick, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
Liam Paninski, Ph.D.
Columbia University
Massimo Scanziani, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Michael P. Stryker, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco

Cell Science Scientific Advisory Council

Bruce Alberts, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Kristi S. Anseth, Ph.D.
University of Colorado at Boulder
Joan Brugge, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School.
Bruce R. Conklin, M.D.
Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco
Gaudenz Danuser, Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Peter Devreotes, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michael Elowitz, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D.
Janelia Research Campus
Wallace Marshall, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Charles E. Murry, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Washington
Jodi Nunnari, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Thomas Pollard, M.D.
Yale University
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology

Immunology Scientific Advisory Council

James E. Crowe, Jr., M.D.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Mark H. Ginsberg, M.D.
University of California San Diego
Marshall S. Horwitz, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Washington
Judith A. James, M.D., Ph.D.
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Matthew Krummel, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Valliappa Lakshmanan, Ph.D.
Google
Virginia Pascual, M.D.
Drukier Institute for Children’s Health at Weill Cornell Medicine
Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Washington
Harinder Singh, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
Sarah Teichmann, Ph.D., FMedSci
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Carl F. Ware, Ph.D.
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Gene Yeo, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego