Select Past Fellows

Former Whitehead Fellows are excelling in research, education, and industry. The links below will take you to the web sites of former Whitehead Fellows.

Former Fellows
Angelika Amon

(1967-2020)
Formerly Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor of Cancer Research, MIT
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Whitehead Member
Professor of Biology, MIT
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Director, Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michael and Ann Hankin and Partners of Brown Advisory Professor in Scientific Innovation
Co-Director, Cancer Chemical and Structural Biology Program, Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Professor of Oncology
Professor of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences

Group Leader, Biomedical Genetics
The Netherlands Cancer Institute

Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
Member, Cancer Cell Biology, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center

Principal Investigator, Children's Hospital Boston
Principle Investigator, HSCRB
Professor, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University

Member, Whitehead Institute
Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT

 

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School 

Chief, Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Eleven Therapeutics
Former Chief Science Officer, MyHeritage
Former Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University

Professor, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT
Co-Director, Center for Data-driven Therapeutics

Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF School of Medicine 

Data Science and Informatics, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Center for Cancer Research
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Senior Member and Co-director of the Cell Circuits Program, Broad Institute

Associate Professor of Biology, New York University

Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Adjunct Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Computer Science, University of California, San Diego
Co-Director, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology PhD Program, University of California, San Diego
Director, NIH Bridge2AI Functional Genomics Program
Director, NIGMS National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB)
Co-Director, NCI Cancer Cell Map Initiative (CCMI)
Co-Director, NIMH Psychiatric Cell Map Initiative (PCMI)

Professor of Biological Engineering, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Nuclear Science & Engineering, MIT

Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford University
Member, Bio-X
Member, Child Health Research Institute
Faculty Fellow, Stanford ChEM-H
Member, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
Lead Investigator, Infectious Disease Initiative, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

Vice President, Immuno-Oncology Discovery, Bristol-Meyers Squib
Senior Vice President, Vir Biotechnology, Inc.

Assistant Professor of Biology, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research 

Professor of Biology, MIT
Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Chair, Translational Medicine, University of Salford - Manchester

Whitehead Member
Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT

Professor, Department of Anatomy, UCSF

Member, Whitehead Institute
Professor of Biology, MIT
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Assistant Professor, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago
Assistant Professor, Institute for the Physics of Evolving Matter, University of Chicago

Faculty Member, Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School

Astronaut, NASA

David Sabatini

Professor of Biology, MIT (until 2022)

Chief Medical Officer, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Professor and Chair of the Microbiology and Immunology Department, Stanford University

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Chemistry, Columbia University
Member, the Motor Neuron Center and the Cancer Center, Columbia Medical School 

Professor, Biology, The University of Washington
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 

Professor of Biological Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics, Rockefeller University

Associate Professor, Physics, Bioengineering, and Microbiology, University of Washington

Director, Cancer Biology at Omega Therapeutics