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Our Board of Directors

Meet the esteemed individuals who guide our vision, support our mission, and provide invaluable expertise as we continue to advance genomic science.

  • Russell Carson headshot

    Russell L. Carson

    Board Co-Chair, NYGC
    Chairman, The Carson Family Charitable Trust, Co-Founder and General Partner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
  • Ivan Seidenberg headshot

    Ivan G. Seidenberg

    Board Co-Chair, NYGC
    Advisory Partner, Perella Weinberg Partners, Former Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Verizon Communications
  • Katrina Armstrong headshot

    Katrina Armstrong, MD

    Board Member, NYGC
    Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences, Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine, Columbia University
  • Dafna Barsagi headshot

    Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD

    Board Member, NYGC
    Executive Vice President and Vice Dean for Science, Chief Scientific Officer, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Medicine, NYU Langone Health
  • Eli Casdin headshot

    Eli Casdin

    Board Member, NYGC
    Chief Investment Officer, Casdin Capital, LLC
  • Dennis Charney headshot

    Dennis S. Charney, MD

    Board Member, NYGC
    Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  • Steven J. Corwin, M.D.

    Board Member, NYGC
    President & CEO of NewYork- Presbyterian
  • Nicholas Donofrio headshot

    Nicholas Donofrio

    Board Member, NYGC
    IBM Fellow Emeritus, Former EVP of Innovation and Technology, IBM
  • Joe Edelman headshot

    Joseph E. Edelman

    Board Member, NYGC
    Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Portfolio Manager, Perceptive Advisors, LLC
  • John Ehrenkranz headshot

    John B. Ehrenkranz

    Board Member, NYGC
    Chief Investment Officer, Ehrenkranz Partners
  • Anthony Evnin headshot

    Anthony B. Evnin, PhD

    Board Member, NYGC
    Former Partner, Venrock
  • Robert Harrington headshot

    Robert A. Harrington, MD

    Board Member, NYGC
    Cardiologist, Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, and Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University
  • John Havens headshot

    John P. Havens

    Board Member, NYGC
    Former Partner and Non-Executive Chairman, Napier Park Capital
  • Weslie Janeway headshot

    Weslie R. Janeway

    Board Member, NYGC
    Director, Finistere Charitable Foundation
  • Richard Lifton headshot

    Richard P. Lifton, MD, PhD

    Board Member, NYGC
    President, The Rockefeller University
  • Tom Maniatis headshot

    Tom Maniatis, PhD

    Evnin Family Scientific Director & CEO, Board Member, NYGC
    Isidore S. Edelman Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University

  • Alondra Nelson, PhD

    Board Member, NYGC
    Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study

  • Barbara Rosati, PhD

    Board Member, NYGC
    Director, Single Cell Genomics, Research Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
  • Frank Scia headshot

    Frank V. Sica

    Board Member, NYGC
    Partner, Tailwind Capital

  • David N. Spergel, PhD

    Board Member, NYGC
    President, Simons Foundation
  • Bruce Stillman headshot

    Bruce Stillman, PhD

    Board Member, NYGC
    President and Chief Executive Officer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • Nancy Thornberry headshot

    Nancy A. Thornberry

    Board Member, NYGC
    Founding CEO and Chair, R&D, Kallyope
  • Kevin Tracey headshot

    Kevin J. Tracey, MD

    Board Member, NYGC
    President and Chief Executive Officer, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health
  • Selwyn Vickers headshot

    Selwyn M. Vickers, MD, FACS

    Board Member, NYGC
    President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Jim Simons headshot

    Jim Simons, PhD *

    Founder and Life Trustee, NYGC

* In Memoriam

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