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

Yang Dan

Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of California – Berkeley
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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

Meng Wang

Senior Group Leader, Janelia Farms Research Campus | HHMI

Susan Davidson

Executive Director

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, z”l

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

Michael S. Brown

Paul J. Thomas Professor of Genetics, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Thomas Cech

Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

James E. Darnell, Jr.

Vincent Astor Professor and Head, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University

Vishva Dixit

Vice President and Staff Scientist, Physiological Chemistry, Genentech

Elaine Fuchs

Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

David V. Goeddel

Managing Partner, The Column Group LLC

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 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

Steven L. McKnight

Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Phillip A. Sharp

Director, McGovern Institute
Head, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Marc Tessier-Lavigne

President, 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

Susan Wessler

University of California Presidents Chair, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside

Feng Zhang

James and Patricia Poitras Professorship in Neuroscience, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT