Institutional Leadership
Staff
Peter Schultz, PhD
Vice Chair of the Board
President and CEO
Ardem Patapoutian, PhD
Faculty Board Appointee
Professor Department of Neuroscience
Alanna Rutan, Esq.
Board Secretary
Chief Compliance Counsel
Mary Wang, PhD
Assistant Board Secretary
Senior Director, Campaign Operations
Board Observer
Stewart Butterfield
Co-founder and CEO, Slack
Co-founder, The David C. Butterfield and Alfonso D. Rubio Memorial Foundation
Board of directors
John D. Diekman, PhD, Chair
Founding Partner
5 AM Ventures
Ron Burkle
Founder, The Yucaipa Companies
Founder and Chair, Ronald W. Burkle Foundation
Gerald Chan, ScD
Co-founder
Morningside
Tom Daniel, MD
Chair
LocanaBio, Inc.
Mark Edwards
Founder
Bioscience Advisors, Inc.
Peter C. Farrell, PhD, DSc
Founder and Chair
ResMed
Benedict Gross, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Mathematics
Harvard University
Professor, Dept. of Mathematics
University of California, San Diego
Sherry Lansing
Co-founder, Stand Up To Cancer
Founder, The Sherry Lansing Foundation
Lillian Lou, PhD
President
The John C. Martin Foundation
Claudia S. Luttrell
President
The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
Mark Pearson
Founder and CEO, Altamont Pharma
Co-founder and Vice Chair
Drawbridge Realty Trust
Jen Rubio
Co-founder and CEO, Away
Co-founder, The David C. Butterfield and Alfonso D. Rubio Memorial Foundation
Peter Schultz, PhD
Vice Chair of the Board
President and CEO
Herbert Wertheim, OD, DSc, MD (hc)
Founder and CEO, Brain Power Incorporated
Co-founder, Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Family Foundation
Board OF OVERSEERS
Karen Bernstein, PhD
Co-Founder and Chairman
BioCentury
Nathaniel Dalton
Founder
Daybreak Partners
Tom Daniel, MD
Chairman
LocanaBio, Inc.
Rodney F. Dammeyer
President
CAC, LLC
Ray Deshaies, PhD
Senior Vice President, Global Research
Amgen
Brian Dovey
Partner
Domain Associates
Mikael Dolsten, MD, PhD
President, Worldwide Research and Development
Pfizer Inc.
Faheem Hasnain
Chairman and CEO
Gossamer Bio, Inc.
Isy Goldwasser
Entrepreneur in Residence
Scripps Research
David Gollaher, PhD
Head of Policy and Government Affairs
Vir Biotechnology
Rich Heyman, PhD
Executive Chairman of the Board
Metacrine, Inc.
Siddhartha Kadia, PhD
Former President, CEO and Director
EAG Laboratories
Rajiv Kaul
Portfolio Manager
Fidelity Investments
Jeffery Kelly, PhD
Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry
Scripps Research
Osman Kibar, PhD
Founder and Executive Chairman
Biosplice Therapeutics
Jonathan Lim, MD
Founder and Managing Partner
City Hill Ventures, LLC
Magda Marquet, PhD
Chairman
Ajinomoto Althea, Inc.
Chris Mirabelli, PhD
CEO
Leap Therapeutics
Vern Norviel, JD
Partner
Wilson Sonsini
Joe Panetta
President and CEO
Biocom
John Reed, MD, PhD
Head of Global Research and Development
Sanofi
Stacy Kellner Rosenberg, JD, MBA
Retired attorney and former nonprofit executive director
Bernard Saint-Donat, PhD
President
Saint-Donat & Co.
Kevin Sayer
President and CEO
Dexcom
Theodore D. Roth
President and Head of Investment Banking
Roth Capital Partners
Lynn A. Schenk, JD
Attorney at Law
Sandford Drexel Smith
Chairman & Founder
Global BioLink, LLC
Michael R. Stone
Founder and Managing Member, FS Investors
Chief Investment Officer, The Rise Fund