Board & Officers
Officers of the Foundation
Administration, Finance and Fundraising
Douglas E. Koshland, President
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of California – Berkeley
Daniel Gottschling
Principal Investigator, Calico Life Sciences
D. Leanne Jones
Professor, Department of Anatomy & Medicine/Geriatrics, University of California – San Francisco
Director, Bakar Aging Research Institute
Jeremy Nathans
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Neal Silverman
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Meng Wang
Senior Group Leader, Janelia Farms Research Campus | HHMI
Susan Davidson
Executive Director, Life Sciences Research Foundation
Application and Peer Review
James Broach
Professor and Chair, Biochemistry, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
Thomas Silhavy
Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Founder
Donald D. Brown, (1931-2023)
Director Emeritus, Department of Embryology,
Carnegie Institution for Science
Advisory Board
Bruce Alberts
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
President Emeritus, National Academy of Sciences
David Baltimore
Distinguished Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology
President Emeritus, California Institute of Technology
Bonnie Bassler
Squibb Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Thomas Cech
Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Elaine Fuchs
Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Susan Hockfield
President Emeritus and Professor of Neuroscience, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
H. Robert Horvitz
David H. Koch Professor, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
David J. Julius
Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine, Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco
Ruth Lehmann
President and Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scott McIsaac
Head of Research, Foresite Capital
Steven L. McKnight
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Eric Olson
Annie and Willie Nelson Professorship in Stem Cell Research, Pogue Distinguished Chair in Research on Cardiac Birth Defects, The Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Science, Department of Molecular Biology, The University Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Phillip A. Sharp
Director, McGovern Institute
Head, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Professor and President Emeritus, Stanford University
Shirley M. Tilghman
Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
President Emerita of Princeton University
Robert Tjian
Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Feng Zhang
James and Patricia Poitras Professorship in Neuroscience, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Advisory Board Alumni
Michael S. Brown
Paul J. Thomas Professor of Genetics, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Joseph L. Goldstein
Regental Professor, Julie and Louis A. Beecherl Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science and Chairman, Department of Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Susan Wessler
University of California Presidents Chair, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside