Solving the mysteries of bioscience
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Inspiring Next-Generation Scientists
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Fostering collaboration and innovation from emerging leaders in bioscience
Emerging bioscience leaders
The Next Generation Leaders (NGL) program at the Allen Institute recognizes and supports emerging and diverse early career researchers in bioscience. The program is designed to foster professional development, ideation, creativity, and collaboration to make a broad, transformational impact on the future of science at the Allen Institute.
NGLs have a passion for collaborative research to understand the complex problems in bioscience. They bring expertise in their field, and offer fresh perspectives to enhance scientific research across bioethics, data visualization, public health, science education and more.
2025 NGL applications are now open!
The application window for the Next Generation Leaders program opens on May 1, 2025, and closes on June 3, 2025.
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Guidelines and FAQs Application Overview
The program is designed to foster professional development, ideation and creativity, and collaboration both among the NGLs and between the NGLs and the Allen Institute.
Next Generation Leaders will complete a three-year term and will have the opportunity to contribute to ongoing research across scientific teams in neuroscience, cell science, immunology, synthetic biology, and data science; engage with team science, big science, and open science practices; and ultimately act as ambassadors for the Allen Institute and open science resources.
Eiman Azim, Ph.D. | Salk Institute
Renata Batista Brito, Ph.D. | Albert Einstein School of Medicine
Andre Berndt, Ph.D. | University of Washington
Aparna Bhaduri, Ph.D. | University of California, San Francisco
Denise Cai, Ph.D. | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Clint Cave, Ph.D. | Middlebury College
Mark Cembrowski, Ph.D. | University of British Columbia
Lucas Cheadle, Ph.D. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Jerry Chen, Ph.D. | Boston University
Eva Dyer, Ph.D. | Emory University
Yvette Fisher, Ph.D. | University of California
Jennifer Garrison, Ph.D. | Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Lisa Giocomo, Ph.D. | Stanford University
Viviana Gradinaru, Ph.D. | California Institute of Technology
Michael Halassa, M.D., Ph.D. | The Neuroscience Institute, New York University
Mark Harnett, Ph.D. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keith Hengen, Ph.D. | Washington University in St. Louis
Alexander Huth, Ph.D. | University of Texas at Austin
Christina Kim, Ph.D. | Stanford University
Jens Kremkow, Ph.D. | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Fenna Krienen, Ph.D. | Harvard Medical School
Scott Linderman, Ph.D. | Stanford University
Michael Lodato, Ph.D. | University of Massachusetts Medical School
Simona Lodato, Ph.D. | Humanitas University
Evan Macosko, M.D., Ph.D. | Harvard Medical School
Bianca Jones Marlin, Ph.D. | Columbia University
Andrew Miri, Ph.D. | Northwestern University
Richard Naud, Ph.D. | University of Ottawa
Tomasz Nowakowski, Ph.D. | University of California, San Francisco
Lucy Palmer, Ph.D. | The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
Catherine Peña, Ph.D. | Princeton University
Cindy Poo, Ph.D. | Allen Institute
Ueli Rutishauser, Ph.D. | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Krishanu Saha, Ph.D. | University of Wisconsin-Madison
Neville Sanjana, Ph.D. | New York Genome Center & New York University
Benjamin Scott, Ph.D. | Boston University
Nick Steinmetz, Ph.D. | University of Washington
Emily Sylwestrak, Ph.D. | University of Oregon
Maria Antonietta Tosches, Ph.D. | Columbia University
John Tuthill, Ph.D. | University of Washington
Michael Yartsev, Ph.D. | Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Yttri, Ph.D. | Carnegie Mellon University
