people & teams

At the Allen Institute, discovery is a team effort.

From brain mappers to cell biologists, from immunologists to AI engineers, our people and teams are building the resources, tools, and discoveries that accelerate science for everyone.

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Lenina Arenas-Fuentes

Chief of Staff

Christopher Beaudoin

Chief Operating Officer

Rui Costa

President and Chief Executive Officer

Ruwanthi (Ru) Gunawardane

Executive Vice President and Director, Cell Science

Julie Harris

Vice President, Science Initiatives

Andrew Hickl

Chief Technology Officer

Susan Kaech

Executive Vice President and Director, Immunology

Ed Lein

Executive Vice President and Director, Brain Health

Meg McClellan

Vice President and General Counsel

Sarah Norris Hall

Chief Financial Officer

Rob Piercy

Vice President, Communications & Impact

Jay Shendure

Lead Scientific Director, Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, Brotman Baty Institute University of Washington School of Medicine; HHMI

Petra Smith

Vice President, People and Culture

Karel Svoboda

Executive Vice President and Director, Neural Dynamics

Arden Yang

Vice President, Innovation

Hongkui Zeng

Executive Vice President and Director, Brain Science

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Research Associate II

Software Engineer III

Tyler Mollenkopf, M.S.

Director, Data and Technology

Ueli Rutishauser, Ph.D.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Research Associate I

Upaasana Krishnan, MS

Bioinformatics Analyst II

Uygar Sümbül, Ph.D.

Associate Investigator

Vaishnavi Parthasarathy, M.S.

Research Associate, Sr.

Valliappa Lakshmanan, Ph.D.

Venajah Woods, B.A.

Education and Engagement Coordinator III

Veronica Hernandez, B.S.

Research Associate, Lead

Victoria Rachleff, Ph.D. candidate

Vivek Athalye, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Viviana Gradinaru, Ph.D.

California Institute of Technology

V. Michael Holers, M.D.

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Research Associate, Sr.

Wan-Qing Yu, Ph.D.

Wendy Xin, Ph.D.

Wendy Yang, PhD

Will Bailis, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Will Hannon, PhD

Data Scientist I

Research Associate II

Wilson Wong, Ph.D.

Boston University

Xiaojun Li, Ph.D.

Director, Informatics & Computational Biology

Xiao-Ping Liu, Ph.D.

Xiaoyin Chen, Ph.D.

Assistant Investigator

Xiaoyu Lu, Ph.D.

Ximena Opitz-Araya

Research Associate, Principal

Yağmur Yener, PhD

Yapeng Su, Ph.D.

Yasmeen Hussain, Ph.D.

Senior Scientific Project and Alliance Manager

Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Yasuhiro Kyono, Ph.D.

Scientist III - Molecular Biology / Genome Engineering

Yeganeh Marghi, Ph.D.

Bioinformatics Analyst III

Yiliu Wang, Ph.D.

Shanahan Fellow

University of Texas at Austin

Yoav Ben-Simon, Ph.D.

Assistant Investigator

Yoni Browning, Ph.D.

Software Engineer III

Yuanyuan Fu, Ph.D.

Yuchuan Miao, Ph.D.

Yudong He, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist

Yvette Fisher, Ph.D.

University of California

Zachary Madigan

Sr. Software Engineer

Senior Bioinformatics Analyst

Zack Lewis, Ph.D.

Zeinab Barati, Ph.D.

Scientific Program Manager

Ziyuan He, Ph.D

Bioinformatics Scientist II

Zizhen Yao, Ph.D.

Assistant Investigator

Research Associate I

Z Yan Wang, Ph.D.

University of Washington

science done differently. shared openly.

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brain science

Mapping every cell, connection, and circuit in the brain—openly shared with the world.

cell science

Decoding how cells become tissues, then programming that knowledge into powerful new research tools.

neural dynamics

Revealing the brain's hidden algorithms that transform neural activity into real-world behavior.

immunology

Creating the deepest open reference for the healthy human immune system ever built.

synthetic biology

Engineering cells to record their own histories, transforming how we understand disease over time.

Brain Health

Accelerating human brain research and new therapeutic strategies for neurological conditions

research

Big questions, open answers, and science built to be shared.

education

Inspiring the next generation of scientists through open science resources.

impact

Our science is empowering researchers and advancing health worldwide.