Mission Statement

Foresite Labs is a center for entrepreneurial innovation.

Foresite Labs supports the next generation of healthcare entrepreneurs who are creating innovative companies that are transforming the way that we discover and develop new medicines, and the way that we deliver care to patients in need. Foresite Labs systematically uses the tools of data science to create companies in healthcare that connect true changes in patient outcomes to all of the activities that are needed to develop, design and deploy therapeutics.

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Team members

Mohammed AlQuraishi, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University

Paola Arlotta, PhD

Chair, Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Simon J. Hollingsworth, PhD FRCPath FRSB FBPhS FMedSci

Vice President and Global Franchise Head for IO Bispecifics, AstraZeneca

Jeff Huber

Vice-Chair, GRAIL (founding CEO of GRAIL, formerly SVP of Google and board member of Illumina)

June Lee, MD

Biotech Executive, Company Builder, Board Director, Investor

Jennifer Listgarten, PhD

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley; Chan Zuckerberg Investigator

Calum MacRae, MD, PhD

Vice Chair, Scientific Innovation at the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Mathai Mammen, MD, PhD

Chairman and CEO, Parabilis Medicines

Steve Finkbeiner MD, PhD

Director, Taube/Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at Gladstone

Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD

Sterling Professor of Immunobiology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Margaret Chu Moyer

Amgen’s Chemistry, Characterization, Technology group

Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci FRS

Head of Cellular Genetics and Senior Group Leader Wellcome Sanger Institute

Tim Aikin, PhD

Associate, New Ventures

Ramprasad Reddy Akavaram

Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer

Vikram Bajaj, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO

Lisa Bedford

Associate Director, Program & Alliance Management

Mary Helen Black, PhD

Senior Vice President, Head of Human Genomics

Alex Blocker, PhD

Chief Technology Officer and Chief Data Scientist

Christina Caubet

Senior Corporate Paralegal & Legal Operations Coordinator

Selene Clay, PhD

Scientist, Statistical Genomics

Guy Haskin Fernald, PhD

Staff Data Scientist

Abbigal Fiume

Senior Accounting Manager

Katie Gammon

Executive Assistant

Emery T. Goossens, PhD

Senior Machine Learning Scientist

Chris Graves, PhD

Senior Data Scientist

Carissa Heath Finkle, PhD

Program Manager, Portfolio Engagements

Rich Hickey, PhD

Bioinformatics Engineer

Morgan Howard

Bioinformatics Analyst, Genomics Discovery

Chase Kelley, PhD

Senior Associate

John Kim, PhD

Staff Bioinformatics Engineer

Uplaksh Kumar, PhD

Chief Operating Officer

Yijun Li, PhD

Scientist, Statistical and Translational Genomics

Matt Luminais

Head of New Ventures

Scott McIsaac

Scott McIsaac

Venture Partner

Cindy Mesaros

Head of Brand & People

Jack Michuda

Bioinformatics Engineer

Jonathan Packer, PhD

Staff Scientist

Raj Pandey

Rajendra Pandey, PhD

Entrepreneur in Residence

Stephanie Pease

Chief of Staff

Ben Piper

Senior Counsel

Kylie Reynolds

Head of Finance

A.J. Ross

A.J. Ross

Head of Therapeutics Business Development

Elise Ruark, PhD

Director of Product Management

Emily Ruff, MBA

Entrepreneur in Residence

Phyllis Solomon

General Counsel

Jim Tananbaum, MD

Co-Founder

Ashton Teng

Senior Bioinformatics Engineer

Ian Tong, MD

Chief Clinical Officer

Dongnhu Truong, PhD

Associate Director, Statistical and Translational Genomics

Sowmya Venkataraghavan, PhD

Scientist, Statistical and Translational Genomics

David Weinreich

David Weinreich, MD

Operating Partner

Waael Zahriya

People Operations Generalist

Caroline Zellmer, PhD

Senior Program Manager, Portfolio Engagements (Early Therapeutics)

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