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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
Andrew C. Chan - Senior Vice President, Research Biology
Michael Varney - Senior Vice President, Small Molecule Drug Discovery
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
Melissa Starovasnik - Vice President, Research Operations & Structural Biology

Antibody Engineering Paul J. Carter - Senior Director, Staff Scientist
Dan Yansura - Principal Scientist
Mark Dennis - Senior Scientist

Assay & Automation Technology Laura DeForge - Principal Scientist
Gloria Meng - Senior Scientist

Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Robert C. Gentleman - Senior Director
Hilary Clark - Senior Scientist
Thomas D. Wu - Senior Scientist
Zemin Zhang - Principal Scientist

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

Early Discovery Biochemistry Wayne Fairbrother - Director, Staff Scientist
Andrea Cochran - Senior Scientist

Immunology Andrew C. Chan - Senior Vice President, Research Biology
Flavius Martin - Senior Scientist
Wenjun Ouyang - Senior Scientist
Harinder Singh - Senior Director
Menno van Lookeren Campagne - Senior Scientist

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

Microbial Pathogenesis Eric Brown - Senior Director

Molecular Biology Frederic de Sauvage - Vice President
Andrew Peterson - Associate Director
Weilan Ye - Principal Scientist
Somasekar Seshagiri - Principal Scientist
Leisa Johnson - Senior Scientist

Neuroscience Morgan Sheng - Vice President
Ryan Watts - Senior Scientist, Associate Director
David Hackos - Scientist
Joe Lewcock - Scientist
Qiang Zhou - Scientist

Pathology John Lowe - Senior Director
Chris Callahan - Senior 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


Research Oncology Ira Mellman - Vice President
Napoleone Ferrara - Genentech Fellow
Mark Sliwkowski - Senior Staff Scientist
Peter Jackson - Director, Staff Scientist

Molecular Diagnostics & Cancer Cell Biology Lisa Belmont - Scientist
David Dornan - Senior Scientist

Cancer Immunotherapy & Hematology
Allen Ebens - Associate Director

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

Discovery Oncology
Jeff Settleman - Senior Director, Staff Scientist
Mary Ludlam (Cole) - Scientist

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

Translational Oncology
Lori Friedman - Senior Director
Stephen Gould - Associate Director, Senior Scientist
Marcia Belvin - Senior Scientist
Tom O'Brien - Senior Scientist

Small Molecule Drug Discovery Michael Varney - Senior Vice President

Drug Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics
Cornelis Hop - Director
Lesley Murray - Principal Project Manager
Cyrus (Siamak) Khojasteh - Senior Scientist

Biochemical Pharmacology
Cris Lewis - Director
Maureen Beresini - Senior Scientist
Shiva Malek - Senior 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 - Vice President
Sarah Hymowitz - Associate Director