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

next generation leaders

allen institute leadership

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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Research Associate, Sr.

Shuchen Wu, Ph.D.

Shanahan Fellow

Research Associate II

David Wyrick, Ph.D.

Wendy Xin, Ph.D.

Nozomu Yachie, Ph.D.

University of British Columbia

Sr. Program Manager, Innovation

Vice President, Innovation

Wendy Yang, PhD

Senior Instrument Specialist

Shenqin Yao, Ph.D.

Assistant Investigator

Zizhen Yao, Ph.D.

Assistant Investigator

Michael Yartsev, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley

Yağmur Yener, PhD

Research Associate I

Associate Director, Data & Technology

Sebastian Yrarrazaval

Research Associate I

Jessica Yu, Ph.D.

Wan-Qing Yu, Ph.D.

Rafael Yuste, M.D., Ph.D.

Columbia University

Becky Zaunbrecher, Ph.D.

Hongkui Zeng, Ph.D.

Executive Vice President and Director, Brain Science

Data Analyst II

Chi Zhang, Ph.D.

Libby Zhang, Ph.D.

Shanahan Fellow

The Rockefeller University

CiCi Xingyu Zheng, Ph.D.

Shanahan Fellow

science done differently. shared openly.

explore our accelerators

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.