Team

The work of the Human Immunome Project is spearheaded by our global network of staff and consultants and supported by members of our Board of Directors and advisory committees. Together with our partners and supporters, we are championing the mission of HIP and overseeing a global consortium to generate diverse immunological data at scale and build publicly available AI models of the human immune system.

Jane Metcalfe

Board Chair

Hans Keirstead, PhD

Chief Executive Officer

Shai Shen-Orr, PhD

Co-Chief Science Officer

John Tsang, PhD

Co-Chief Science Officer

Kristen Jill Abboud

Science Writer & Editor

Michelle Bair, PhD

Vice President of Philanthropy

Bonnie Bender

Project Director, Michelson Prizes

Josephine Cox, PhD

Senior Immunology Scientist

Mark Dalphin, PhD

Bioinformatician

Michelle Denise

Chief of Staff

Olvin D’Souza, CPA

Chief Financial Officer

Liza Kane-Hartnett

Communications Director

Pooja Kothari

Strategic Development Consultant

Orit Lavi, PhD

Vice President of Research

Suzanne Toma

Development Consultant

Frans van den Boom, PhD

Executive Director, Stichting Europe

Michelle Woehrle

Director of Operations

Jane Metcalfe, Board Chair

Founder/CEO, proto.life; Wired

Linda Avey

Founding General Partner, Humain Ventures; 23andMe

Jose-Maria Fernandez

Former Director General, Spanish Treasury

Ian Gust, AO, MD, Board Emeritus

University of Melbourne

Kenneth Holroyd, MD

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Hans Keirstead, PhD

Human Immunome Project

Robert Klein

Klein Financial Corporation

Marie-Paule Kieny, PhD, Board Emeritus

Institut National de la Sante et la Recherche Medicale (INSERM)

Neema Mgana, PhD

United Nations

Stanley Plotkin, MD, Board Emeritus

University of Pennsylvania, Vaxconsult

Rey Ramsey

CEO, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Centri Capital

Douglas Richman, MD

University of California, San Diego

The Human Immunome Project has established advisory committees to help guide its work and inform decision-making. Comprised of subject matter experts, the HIP advisory committees offer independent expertise, global experience, and support in delivering on HIP’s mission.

Shai Shen-Orr, PhD

Co-Chair; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

John Tsang, PhD

Co-Chair; Yale University

Mark Davis, PhD

Stanford University

Jim Langford

White Star Consulting

Arnaud Marchant, MD, PhD

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD

Harvard Chan School of Public Health

Rino Rappuoli, PhD

Biotecnopolo di Siena Foundation

David Walt, PhD

Harvard University

Maria Yazdanbakhsh, PhD

Leiden University Medical Center

Ebele Anidi

G20 Global Innovation Hub for Improving Value in Health

Shirin Heidari, PhD

GENDRO

Partha Majumder, PhD

National Science Chair, India

Rey Ramsey

Chair; Nathan Cummings Foundation; Centri Capital

Maria Souza

Baillie Gifford

David Bales

Texans for Stem Cell Research

Benoit Bruneau, PhD

Gladstone Institutes

Bahija Gouimi

Association des Malades Atteints de Leucémies (AMAL)

Roman Reed

Roman Reed Foundation