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

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
Venture Partner

Cindy Mesaros
Head of Brand & People

Jack Michuda
Bioinformatics Engineer

Jonathan Packer, PhD
Staff Scientist

Rajendra Pandey, PhD
Entrepreneur in Residence

Stephanie Pease
Chief of Staff

Ben Piper
Senior Counsel

Kylie Reynolds
Head of Finance

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, MD
Operating Partner

Waael Zahriya
People Operations Generalist

Caroline Zellmer, PhD
Senior Program Manager, Portfolio Engagements (Early Therapeutics)