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Lenina Arenas-Fuentes

Chief of Staff

Christopher Beaudoin

Chief Operating Officer

Rui Costa

President and Chief Executive Officer

Ruwanthi (Ru) Gunawardane

Executive Vice President and Director, Cell Science

Julie Harris

Vice President, Science Initiatives

Andrew Hickl

Chief Technology Officer

Ed Lein

Executive Vice President and Director of Brain Health Accelerator

Meg McClellan

Vice President and General Counsel

Sarah Norris Hall

Chief Financial Officer

Rob Piercy

Vice President, Communications & Impact

Kathryn Richmond

Executive Vice President, Director Frontiers Group and Office of Science and Innovation

Jay Shendure

Lead Scientific Director, Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, Brotman Baty Institute University of Washington School of Medicine; HHMI

Petra Smith

Vice President, People and Culture

Karel Svoboda

Executive Vice President and Director, Neural Dynamics

Arden Yang

Vice President, Innovation

Hongkui Zeng

Executive Vice President and Director, Brain Science

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Christopher Chen, M.D., Ph.D.

Boston University

Christopher Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.

Harvard University

Christy Bennett, M.S., M.B.A

Senior Scientific Program Manager

Cindy Poo, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Cindy van Velthoven, Ph.D.

Associate Investigator

Claire Gustafson, Ph.D

Assistant Investigator

Claire Weichselbaum, Ph.D.

Education & Engagement Specialist III

Clare Gamlin, Ph.D.

Scientific Program Manager

Clark Roll

Scientific Data Engineer I

Cliff Rostomily

Cliff Slaughterbeck, Ph.D.

Senior Manager, System Design Engineering

Clint Cave, Ph.D.

Middlebury College

Cole Phalen

Bioinformatics Analyst II

Cole Trapnell, Ph.D.

Scientific Co-Director, Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology; Associate Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington

Colin Bacon

Research Associate I

Connor Kubo

Constantina Theofanopoulou, Ph.D.

Hunter College

Corbett Bennett, Ph.D.

Scientist III

Courtney McDougal

Crystal Stanfield

Sr. Director, Integrated Talent Strategy

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