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Board of Scientific Counselors

Arne Akbar, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunology
University College London, Rayne Institute

George Davey-Smith, FRS, M.D., DS.c., MS.c., FMedSci, FRCP, FFPH
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
University of Bristol

Scott Fraser, Ph.D.
President, Dynamic Imaging, Head of Biohub
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco

Howard J. Jacob, Ph.D.
Vice President of Genomics Research and Head of Data Integration, AbbVie, Inc.

Tuuli Lappalainen, Ph.D.
Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Director, National Genomics Infrastructure and Genomics Platform, SciLifeLab
Senior Associate Faculty Member, New York Genome Center

Shannon McWeeney, Ph.D.
Professor, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Head, Division of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Associate Director, Computational Biomedicine, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Director, Translational Bioinformatics, Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute,
Oregon Health Sciences University

Sarah A. Tishkoff, Ph.D.
Director, Penn Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity
University of Pennsylvania

Olga Troyanskaya, Ph.D.
Director, Princeton Precision Health
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University

Elena Volpi, MD, Ph.D., FGSA
Sam and Ann Barshop Endowed Chair in Clinical and Translational Resarch in Geriatrics
Director, Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies
Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology & Palliative Medicine
UT Health San Antonio

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