Scientific Resource Board

Our Scientific Resource Board serves as an advisory group to Genentech regarding our research and early development projects.

Rafi Ahmed, PhD
Vaccine Center Director, Emory Vaccine Center
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Investigator, Emory Center for AIDS Research

Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS
President, UCSF Helen Diller Family
Comprehensive Cancer Center

Richard Axel, MD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University

Yasmine Belkaid, PhD
Director NIAID Microbiome program
Co-Director NIH Center for Human Immunology
Chief, Metaorganism Immunology Section
Chief, Laboratory of Host Immunity and Microbiome

Herbert W. Boyer, PhD
Co-Founder of Genentech

John D. Carpten, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Translational Genomics
Royce & Mary Trotter Chair in Cancer Research
Professor, Department of Urology
Co-Director, Institute for Translational Genomics
Director, USC Molecular Genomics Core
Program Co-Leader, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California

Hans Clevers, MD PhD
Professor of Molecular Genetics
Principal Investigator, Princess Máxima Center
Oncode Investigator
University Medical Center, Utrecht

Alison M. Goate, PhD
Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor and Chair,
Director, Ronald M Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s Disease
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences,
Institute for Data Science & Genomic Technology
Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Neurology,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

David M. Holtzman, MD
Professor and Chair of Neurology
Scientific Director of the Hope Center, Knight ADRC
Department of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine

Deb Hung, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Genetics
Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Integrated Solutions to Infectious Diseases
Co-Director, Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program
Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

Richard O. Hynes, PhD, FRS
Daniel K Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Karen E. Knudsen, PhD
Executive Vice President of Oncology Services
Enterprise Director, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Thomas Jefferson University

Richard P. Lifton, MD, PhD
Carson Family Professor
President
Rockefeller University

Richard Locksley, MD
Sandler Distinguished Professorship in Asthma Research
Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, San Francisco

Diane Mathis, PhD
Professor
Department of Immunology
Harvard Medical School

Fiona Powrie, PhD, FRS
Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences
Director, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
Principal Investigator, Translational Gastroenterology Unit
University of Oxford

Dean Sheppard, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep
Director, Lung Biology Center
University of California, San Francisco

Kevan Shokat, PhD
Professor, Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
University of California, San Francisco
Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Thomas J. Silhavy, PhD
Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University

Beth Stevens, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Boston Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Arthur Weiss, MD, PhD
Ephraim P. Engelman Distinguished Professor
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco