next generation leaders
emerging bioscience leaders
The Next Generation Leaders (NGL) program at the Allen Institute recognizes emerging early career researchers in bioscience. The program is designed to foster community, exchange of ideas, innovation, and collaboration to make a broad, transformational impact on the future of science at the Allen Institute and beyond.
NGLs have a passion for collaborative research to tackle complex problems in bioscience. They bring expertise and offer fresh perspectives to enhance the mission-driven scientific research propelled by big, team, and open science principles at the Allen Institute.
2026 NGL applications are now open.
The application window for the Next Generation Leaders program is now open from February 17 to March 31, 2026.
about the ngl program
The program is designed to foster community, exchange of ideas, innovation, and collaboration among the NGLs and between the NGLs and the Allen Institute.
Next Generation Leaders complete a three-year term and will have opportunities to interface with ongoing research in brain science, cell science, immunology, synthetic biology, and data science; engage with team science, big science, and open science practices; and ultimately act as ambassadors for the Allen Institute and open science resources.
Our Next Generation Leaders are a vital part of the Allen Institute community. Their extraordinary creativity and scientific excellence inspire our programs and help shape current and future research directions.
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2022 cohort of next generation leaders
past next generation leaders
- Eiman Azim, Ph.D. | Salk Institute
- Renata Batista Brito, Ph.D. | Albert Einstein School of Medicine
- Andre Berndt, Ph.D. | University of Washington
- Aparna Bhaduri, Ph.D. | University of California, San Francisco
- Denise Cai, Ph.D. | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Clint Cave, Ph.D. | Middlebury College
- Mark Cembrowski, Ph.D. | University of British Columbia
- Lucas Cheadle, Ph.D. | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Jerry Chen, Ph.D. | Boston University
- Eva Dyer, Ph.D. | Emory University
- Emilia Favuzzi, Ph.D. | Harvard Medical School
- Yvette Fisher, Ph.D. | University of California
- Jennifer Garrison, Ph.D. | Buck Institute for Research on Aging
- Lisa Giocomo, Ph.D. | Stanford University
- Viviana Gradinaru, Ph.D. | California Institute of Technology
- Michael Halassa, M.D., Ph.D. | The Neuroscience Institute, New York University
- Arif Hamid, Ph.D. | University of Minnesota Medical School
- Mark Harnett, Ph.D. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Keith Hengen, Ph.D. | Washington University in St. Louis
- Alexander Huth, Ph.D. | University of Texas at Austin
- Christina Kim, Ph.D. | Stanford University
- Jens Kremkow, Ph.D. | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Fenna Krienen, Ph.D. | Harvard Medical School
- Scott Linderman, Ph.D. | Stanford University
- Michael Lodato, Ph.D. | University of Massachusetts Medical School
- Simona Lodato, Ph.D. | Humanitas University
- Evan Macosko, M.D., Ph.D. | Harvard Medical School
- Bianca Jones Marlin, Ph.D. | Columbia University
- Andrew Miri, Ph.D. | Northwestern University
- Richard Naud, Ph.D. | University of Ottawa
- Tomasz Nowakowski, Ph.D. | University of California, San Francisco
- Lucy Palmer, Ph.D. | The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Catherine Peña, Ph.D. | Princeton University
- Lucas Pinto, M.D., Ph.D. | Northwestern University
- Cindy Poo, Ph.D. | Allen Institute
- Kanaka Rajan, Ph.D. | Harvard University
- Ueli Rutishauser, Ph.D. | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Krishanu Saha, Ph.D. | University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Neville Sanjana, Ph.D. | New York Genome Center & New York University
- Benjamin Scott, Ph.D. | Boston University
- Nick Steinmetz, Ph.D. | University of Washington
- Emily Sylwestrak, Ph.D. | University of Oregon
- Maria Antonietta Tosches, Ph.D. | Columbia University
- Jessica Tsai, M.D., Ph.D. | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- John Tuthill, Ph.D. | University of Washington
- Z Yan Wang, Ph.D. | University of Washington
- Michael Yartsev, Ph.D. | Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
- Eric Yttri, Ph.D. | Carnegie Mellon University
