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Scientist Profiles

Avi Ashkenazi and Vishva Dixit
Scientists are at the center of what Genentech does — their efforts lead to the discovery of therapies for patients with difficult-to-treat diseases. They are the primary source of our marketed products and new drug candidates in our development pipeline. In this section, you'll learn about some of the highly talented scientists from different areas and levels of the Research organization who work at Genentech. You'll hear about how these researchers joined Genentech, what they are currently working on, what inspires them, and what kind of people they are looking to recruit into their areas of the Research Department. You'll also have access to information about each researcher's education and background, top scientific papers, and awards and titles.

Research
Richard H. Scheller - Executive Vice President, Genentech Research & Early Development
Marc Tessier-Lavigne - Executive Vice President, Research, and Chief Scientific Officer
Andrew C. Chan - Senior Vice President, Immunology and Antibody Engineering
Frederic de Sauvage - Vice President, Molecular Biology
Vishva Dixit - Vice President, Physiological Chemistry
Ira Mellman - Vice President, Research Oncology
Bruce Roth - Vice President, Discovery Chemistry
Morgan Sheng - Vice President, Neuroscience
Michael Varney - Senior Vice President, Small Molecule Drug Discovery

Antibody Engineering Dan Yansura - Principal Scientist
Mark Dennis - Senior Scientist

Assay & Automation Technology Wai Lee Wong - Director
Laura DeForge - Senior Scientist
Gloria Meng - Senior Scientist

Bioinformatics Hilary Clark - Senior Scientist
Thomas D. Wu - Senior Scientist
Zemin Zhang - Senior Scientist

Biomedical Imaging Nicholas van Bruggen - Associate Director
Richard Carano - Senior Scientist
Simon Williams - Senior Scientist

Immunology Andrew C. Chan - Senior Vice President
Paul Godowski - Staff Scientist
Rienk Offringa - Principal Scientist
Flavius Martin - Senior Scientist
Menno van Lookeren Campagne - Senior Scientist

Immunology Diagnostics & Biomarkers Tim Behrens - Senior Director
John Monroe - Director

Microbial Pathogenesis Eric Brown - Senior Director

Molecular Biology Frederic de Sauvage - Vice President
Andrew Peterson - Senior Scientist
Leisa Johnson - Senior Scientist
Somasekar Seshagiri - Senior Scientist

Molecular Diagnostics David Dornan - Scientist
Mark Lackner - Scientist

Neuroscience Marc Tessier-Lavigne - Executive Vice President, Research, and Chief Scientific Officer
Morgan Sheng - Vice President
Ryan Watts - Associate Director
Anatoly Nikolaev - Scientist
Qiang Zhou - Scientist

Pathology John Lowe - Senior Director
Chris Callahan - Scientist/Pathologist
Lauri Diehl - Scientist/Pathologist
Howard M. Stern - Scientist/Pathologist

Physiological Chemistry Vishva Dixit - Vice President

Protein Chemistry Richard Vandlen - Staff Scientist
Jennie Lill - Senior Scientist
Lino Gonzalez - Scientist
Alexander Koch - Scientist


Protein Engineering Wayne Fairbrother - Director, Staff Scientist
Andrea Cochran - Senior Scientist

Research Oncology Ira Mellman - Vice President
Mark Sliwkowski - Staff Scientist

Cancer Signaling & Translational Oncology
Lori Friedman - Director
Allen Ebens - Associate Director
Marcia Belvin - Senior Scientist
Stephen Gould - Senior Scientist

Cancer Targets
Paul Polakis - Director, Staff Scientist
Mike Costa - Senior Sceintist
Bill Mallet - Scientist

Cell Regulation
Peter Jackson - Director, Staff Scientist
Tom O'Brien - Senior Scientist
Mary Ludlam (Cole) - Scientist

Molecular Oncology
Avi Ashkenazi - Director, Sr. Staff Scientist
Ellen Filvaroff - Senior Scientist

Tumor Biology and Angiogenesis
Greg Plowman - Senior Director
Napoleone Ferrara - Genentech Fellow
Diane Pennica - Senior Scientist
Weilan Ye - Senior Scientist

Small Molecule Drug Discovery Michael Varney - Senior Vice President

Drug Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics
Cornelis Hop - Director
Lesley Murray - Principal Project Manager

Biochemical Pharmacology
Cris Lewis - Director
Maureen Beresini - Senior Scientist
Shiva Malek - Scientist

Discovery Chemistry
Bruce Roth - Vice President
Alan Olivero - Associate Director
Wendy Young - Associate Director
Joe Lyssikatos - Principal Scientist

Pharmaceutical Sciences
David Stirling - Senior Director
Nik Chetwyn - Senior Scientist
Minli Xie - Senior Scientist

Structural Biology Melissa Starovasnik - Senior Director
Sarah Hymowitz - Associate Director