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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 of Immunology

Ed Lein

Executive Vice President and Director

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

Bruce Alberts, Ph.D

University of California, San Francisco

Bruno Cruz, Ph.D.

Bryan Gore, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Cameron Bielstein

Research Associate I

Camilo Laiton, M.Sc.

Software Engineer III

Carliana Halterman

Research Associate III

Carl Petersen, Ph.D.

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Carl Schoonover, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Carolina Tropini, Ph.D.

University of British Columbia

Caroline Hookway

Carol L. Thompson, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Data & Technology

Carolyn Eng, Ph.D.

Senior Scientific Project and Alliance Manager

Scientific Data Engineer II

Employee Programs Partner III

Casey Schneider-Mizell, Ph.D.

Investigator, Assistant

Administrative Coordinator III

Catriona Jamieson, M.D., Ph.D.

University of California San Diego

Changkyu (CK) Lee, Ph.D.

Senior Bioinformatics Scientist

Charles Cobbs, M.D.

Swedish Neuroscience Institute

Charles E. Murry, M.D., Ph.D.

University of Washington

Chelsea M. Pagan, Ph.D.

Senior Scientific Project and Alliance Manager

Corporate Travel Program Manager

Manager, Research Administration

Chi Zhang, Ph.D.

Chris Bennett, MD

University of Pennsylvania

Chris Frick, Ph.D.

Sr. Software Engineer

Chris Morrison, Ph.D.

Software Engineer III

Chrissy Weber-Schmidt, B.A.

Research Associate, Sr.

Christina Jarvis

Events Specialist II

Research Associate I

Scientific Data Engineer

Christine Rimorin

Research Associate III

Christof Koch, Ph.D.

Meritorious Investigator

Christopher Beaudoin, MBA

Chief Operating Officer

Christopher Chen, M.D., Ph.D.

Boston University

Christopher Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.

Harvard University

Christy Adams, M.S., M.B.A

Senior Scientific Program Manager

Cindy Poo, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Cindy van Velthoven, Ph.D.

Associate Investigator

Claire Gustafson, Ph.D

Assistant Investigator

Claire Weichselbaum, Ph.D.

Education & Engagement Specialist III

Clare Gamlin, Ph.D.

Scientific Program Manager

Scientific Data Engineer I

Cliff Slaughterbeck, Ph.D.

Senior Manager, System Design Engineering

Clint Cave, Ph.D.

Middlebury College

Bioinformatics Analyst II

Research Associate I

Corbett Bennett, Ph.D.

Crystal Stanfield

Sr. Director, Integrated Talent Strategy

Postbaccalaureate Research Assistant

Scientific Project Coordinator II

Damian J. Green, M.D.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Daniel Birman, Ph.D.

Software Engineer III

Daniel Silbergeld, M.D.

Daniel Starr, Ph.D.

University of California, Davis

Daniel Toloudis, M.S.

Associate Director, SW Engineering

Daniel T. Starczynowski, Ph.D.

Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation

Darrell Kotton, Ph.D.

Boston Medical Center/Boston University Center for Regenerative Medicine

David Drubin, Ph.D

David Feng, Ph.D.

Sr. Director, Scientific Computing

David Goodsell, Ph.D.

Scripps Research Institute

David Reich, Ph.D.

Harvard Medical School

David Van Valen, M.D., Ph.D.

California Institute of Technology

David W. Piston, Ph.D

Washington University in St. Louis

David Wyrick, Ph.D.

Laboratory Animal Services

Executive Assistant

Deepanjali Dwivedi, Ph.D.

Delissa McMillen, M.S., M.B.A.

Manager, Spatial Transcriptomics

Denise Cai, Ph.D.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Denis Turcu, Ph.D.

Shanahan Fellow

Dennis Maharjan, Ph.D.

Research Technician II

Derek Thirstrup, M.S.

Microscopy Analyst Senior

Derrick Brittain

SW Engineer III

Research Associate III

Dong-Wook Kim, Ph.D.

Douglas Lauffenburger, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Executive Vice President and Director

Sr. Communications Specialist

Eiman Azim, Ph.D.

Eitan S. Kaplan, Ph.D.

Senior Scientific Project and Alliance Manager

E. John Wherry, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Research Associate III

Elizabeth Edwards

Senior Administrative Assistant

Elizabeth Wirsching, M.S.

Research Associate I

Ella Hilton-VanOsdall

Research Associate II

Emilia Favuzzi, Ph.D.

Harvard Medical School

Emily Borsom, Ph.D.

Associate Scientific Program Manager

Emily Cliff, Ph.D.

Emily Fox, Ph.D.

University of Washington

Data Analyst II

Research Associate II

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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.

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.