Executive Committee
Kristian Andersen
Director of Infectious Disease Genomics, Scripps Research Translational Institute; Professor, Scripps Research
Kristian Andersen is a professor in the Department of Translational Medicine at Scripps Research, with a joint appointment at the Scripps Research Translational Institute. Over the past decade, his research has focused on the complex relationship between host and pathogen.…
Arnab Chatterjee
Vice President, Medicinal Chemistry, Calibr-Skaggs Institute for Innovative Medicines
Arnab Chatterjee has spent more than two decades developing small molecule therapies and translating them from early discovery to clinical trials across multiple disease areas. He received his PhD in the Caltech lab of Robert Grubbs, then joined the Genomics…
Theresa Hill
Director, Education Programming, Scripps Research
Based in the Department of Translational Medicine, Hill leads education programming and employee experience efforts, ensuring equal access to opportunities and nurturing community support. She also manages the institute's competitive nationwide summer internship program for clinicians, graduate students, undergraduates and…
Stephen Kingsmore
President and CEO, Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine
Stephen F. Kingsmore is president and CEO of Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, which is implementing pediatric genomic/precision medicine at unprecedented scale. Previously he was the Dee Lyons/Missouri Endowed Chair in Genomic…
Amy Lightner
Chief Medical Officer, Calibr-Skaggs Institute for Innovative Medicines
Professor and Aline W. Skaggs Chair, Scripps Research Amy Lightner is the chief medical officer at the Calibr-Skaggs Institute for Innovative Medicines, a professor and holder of the Aline W. Skaggs Chair in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology…
Julia Vogel
Senior Program Director, The Participant Center, All of Us Research Program; Assistant Professor, Scripps Research
Julia Vogel is an assistant professor in the Department of Translational Medicine at Scripps Research. At the Scripps Research Translational Institute, she also manages The Participant Center (TPC) for the All of Us Research Program, which is charged with recruiting…
Jay Pandit
Senior Director of Digital Medicine, Scripps Research
Jay Pandit completed his medical degree and internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco. He then completed his cardiovascular diseases fellowship at Northwestern University, during which he developed a novel approach to cuffless blood pressure monitoring. His…
Laura Nicholson
Professor of Translational Medicine, Scripps Research
Laura Nicholson received her medical and doctoral degrees at SUNY Buffalo in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. She joined Scripps Clinic in 2006 as…
Athena Philis-Tsimikas
Director, Community Engagement, Scripps Research Translational Institute; Corporate Vice President, Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute
Athena Philis-Tsimikas is the corporate vice president of the Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute at Scripps Health and the director of community engagement for the Clinical Translational Science Award, housed at the Scripps Research Translational Institute. She previously served as a…
Emily Spencer
Senior Laboratory Director, Scripps Research
Emily Spencer has more than a dozen years of experience in human genetics research, overseeing recruitment and retention of participants in many large-scale genomics studies. Within the Department of Translational Medicine, she directs local implementation of Clinical and Translational Science…
Edward Ramos
Senior Director, Digital Clinical Trials, Scripps Research
Edward Ramos is senior director of Digital Clinical Trials for the Scripps Research Digital Trials Center (DTC). The DTC seeks to decentralize research through the use of digital health technologies, employing novel strategies for remote, “site-less” participation, and applying state-of-the-art…
Andrew Su
Professor, Scripps Research; Elden and Verna Strahm Chair for Medical Research
Andrew Su is a professor in the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and holder of the Elden and Verna Strahm Chair for Medical Research. His research focuses on building and applying bioinformatics infrastructure for biomedical discovery with a…
Eric Topol
Founder and Director, Scripps Research Translational Institute; Executive Vice President, Scripps Research; Chair and Professor, Translational Medicine, Scripps Research; The Gary and Mary West Endowed Chair of Innovative Medicine, Scripps Research
Eric Topol is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, chair and professor of Translational Medicine and Executive Vice President of Scripps Research. He has published over 1,200 peer-reviewed articles, with more than 370,000 citations, been elected…
Ali Torkamani
Director of Genome Informatics, Scripps Research Translational Institute; Professor, Scripps Research
Ali Torkamani’s research covers a broad range of areas centered on the use of genomic technologies to identify the genetic etiology and underlying mechanisms of human disease in order to define precision therapies for diseased individuals. Major focus areas include…