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.
Categories
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
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
Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder, President, Esker Therapeutics

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
Global Head of R&D, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, J&J (in transition)

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

Michael J. Sofia, PhD
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Arbutus Biopharma, Inc.

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
VP, Head of Human Genomics

Alex Blocker, PhD
Chief Technology Officer and Chief Data Scientist

Mark Chao
Venture Partner

Selene Clay, PhD
Scientist, Statistical Genomics

Frederick Dewey, MD
Chief Scientific Officer

Lauren Edelson
Associate, New Ventures

Guy Haskin Fernald, PhD
Staff Data Scientist

Abbigal Fiume
Senior Accountant

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

Julian Homburger, PhD
Associate Director, Complex Trait Research and Development

Morgan Howard
Bioinformatics Analyst, Genomics Discovery

John Kim, PhD
Staff Bioinformatics Engineer

Uplaksh Kumar, PhD
Chief Operating Officer

Matt Luminais
Head of New Ventures

Alyssa McKenna
Controller

Cindy Mesaros
Head of Brand & People

Jack Michuda
Bioinformatics Engineer

Jonathan Packer, PhD
Staff Scientist

Stephanie Pease
Chief of Staff

Ben Piper
Senior Counsel

Kylie Reynolds
Head of Finance

Genevieve Roberts
Senior Scientist, Statistical Genomics

Elise Ruark, PhD
Director of Product Management

Phyllis Solomon
General Counsel

Zach Sweeney, PhD
Venture Partner

Jim Tananbaum, MD
Co-Founder

Ashton Teng
Bioinformatics Engineer

Ian Tong, MD
Chief Clinical Officer

Cameron Turtle, DPhil
Venture Partner