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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board of directors

shanahan fellows

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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 of AI BioDesign, scientific director of the UW Medicine Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, scientific director of the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator

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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Lily Burnstein, MSW

Career Development Partner III

Data Analyst II

Administrative Assistant II

Stanford University

Research Associate, Sr.

Lisa Giocomo, Ph.D.

Stanford University

Senior Project Coordinator

Livnat Jerby, Ph.D.

Stanford University

The Rockefeller University

Lucas Cheadle, Ph.D.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Lucas Kinsey, M.S.

Research Associate II

Lucas Pinto, M.D., Ph.D.

Northwestern University

Lucas T. Graybuck, Ph.D

Investigator, Assistant

Lucia Prieto-Godino, Ph.D.

Francis Crick Institute

Lucy Palmer, Ph.D.

The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia

Luke Campagnola, Ph.D.

Luke Esposito, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Scientific Operations

Lydia Kisley, Ph.D.

Case Western Reserve University

Research Associate III

Lyndsay Wilhelm

Senior UX Designer

Lynne A. Becker, Ph.D.

Director, Scientific Operations

Macarena Aloi, Ph.D.

Associate Scientific Program Manager

Mackenzie Kopp, Ph.D.

Scientific Program Manager

Madeline Burchard, M.Sc.

Digital Media Specialist III

Madeline Tom, B.S.

Research Associate II

Maho Niwa, Ph.D.

University of California San Diego

Mandë Holford, Ph.D.

Manni He, Ph.D.

Optical Engineer II

Mansi Singh, BS, MSc

Bioinformatics Analyst I

Manuel Ferreira, Ph.D.

Mara Rue, Ph.D.

National Academy of Sciences

Marc Takeno, Ph.D.

Research Associate Principal

Marcus Hooper, Ph.D.

Margaret Anderson

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Margaret A. Shipp, M.D.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Maria Camila Vergara

Research Associate I

Mariajose Metcalfe, Ph.D.

Mariano Gabitto, Ph.D.

Investigator, Associate

Maria Tikhanovskaya, Ph.D.

Shanahan Fellow

Research Associate Supervisor

Senior Application Administrator

Marina Garrett, Ph.D.

Assistant Investigator

Marion Buckwalter, M.D., Ph.D.

Stanford School of Medicine

Marion Pepper, Ph.D.

Scientific Co-Director, Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology; Professor & Chair of Immunology, University of Washington

Manager, People & Culture Admin Ops

Mark C. Genovese, M.D.

Stanford University Medical Center

Mark Gillespie, Ph.D.

Assistant Investigator

Mark Harnett, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mark J. Schnitzer, Ph.D.

Stanford University

Mark Q. Martindale, Ph.D.

University of Florida

Markus Covert, Ph.D.

Stanford University

Markus Müschen, M.D., Ph.D.

Marla Glass, Ph.D.

Maryam Majeed, Ph.D.

Administrative Coordinator III

Matheus Viana, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Image Analysis and Descr Modeling

Mathew Summers, Ph.D.

Technical Program Manager III

Matt Hart, Ph.D.

Scientist III, High Resolution Translational Immunology

Matthew Kutys, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Synthetic Biology & Experimental Cell Model Design

Matthew Parnian, M.Sc.

Research Associate

Matthew Schmitz, Ph.D.

Data Analyst III

Maximilian Heeg, M.D.

Assistant Investigator

Meagan Quinlan, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associate

Megan King, Ph.D.

Yale University

Research Associate I

Scientific Project Coordinator III

Megan Riel-Mehan, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Communications & Impact

Meghan Turner, Ph.D.

Vice President and General Counsel

Sr. Technical Writer

Melissa Lerch, Ph.D.

Scientific Project and Alliance Manager

Melissa Locke Wharton, Ph.D.

Project Manager, PMO

Meritxell Huch, Ph.D.

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Mialy DeFelice, PhD

Data Scientist III

Michael Bassik, Ph.D.

Stanford University

Michael Buice, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Studio D3

Executive Director of Finance

Michael Greenberg, Ph.D.

Harvard Medical School

Michael Halassa, M.D., Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Michael Hawrylycz, Ph.D.

Investigator, Sr. Informatics and Data Science

Michael Kunst, Ph.D.

Michael Levin, Ph.D.

Tufts University

Michael Ringenburg, Ph.D., MBA

Associate Director of Data Architecture

Michael Taormina, Ph.D.

Research Associate III

Michael Yartsev, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Michal Fortuna, Ph.D.

Scientist II, NHP Biodistribution Lead

Michelle Digman, Ph.D.

University of California, Irvine

Mikayla Carlson, B.A.

Research Associate I

Software Engineer II

Mikhail Savitski, Ph.D.

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

System Design Engineer III

Molly Gasperini, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Genome Engineering / Team Lead

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.

ai biodesign

Advancing evolution to explore biology’s full design space and advance human health

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.