Our Scientific Advisory Board
The NYGC has assembled an impressive Scientific Advisory Board made up of some of the foremost experts in the field. The NYGC SAB meets annually to advise on our scientific programs and strategic decision-making.
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Joseph Gleeson, MD
SAB ChairProfessor of Neuroscience and Pediatrics, UCSD; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute -
Nancy J Cox, PhD
SAB Vice ChairDirector, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute; Director, Division of Genetic Medicine; Mary Phillips Edmonds Gray Professor of Genetics, Vanderbilt University -
Bissan Al-Lazikani, PhD
Director of Therapeutics Data Science; Professor of Genomic Medicine, The Data Science Institute and The Department of Genomic Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center -
Goncalo Abecasis, D. Phil
Vice President, Analytical Genomics & Data Sciences, Regeneron; Felix E Moore Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan -
Ewan Birney, PhD
Director, EMBL-EBI, Joint Research Senior Scientist -
Joakim Lundeberg, PhD
Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SciLifeLab -
Funmi Olopade, MD, FACP
Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine; Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, University of Chicago -
Jonathan Pritchard, PhD
Professor, Departments of Biology and Genetics, Stanford University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute -
Jay Shendure, MD, PhD
Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington -
Matthew State, MD, PhD
Professor; Chair of the Department of Psychiatry; President of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute; UCSF -
Barbara Wold, PhD
Bren Professor of Molecular Biology; Allen V.C. Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair; Director, Merkin Institute for Translational Research; Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology
