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
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