The right leadership.

Led by Wellcome Leap CEO, Regina E. Dugan, who served as the 19th Director of DARPA, where she oversaw an annual $3B portfolio of projects ranging from hypersonics to RNA-based vaccines. An experienced Silicon Valley executive, she also built and led advanced project organizations at Google and Facebook.

Chaired by one of the most effective business leaders in the life sciences industry, Jay Flatley. As CEO of Illumina, Jay helped to transform gene sequencing from a scientific pursuit to a commercially accessible service and moved the cost of sequencing an entire human genome from $1 million to $1,000.
Black and white circular photo of Regina E. Dugan, President and CEO of Wellcome Leap.

Regina E. Dugan

President & CEO

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Jay Flatley

Chair, Wellcome Leap

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Fiona Powrie

Director, Wellcome Leap

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John-Arne Rottingen

Director, Wellcome Leap

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Richard Gillingwater

Director, Wellcome Leap

Judy Swain

Judy Swain

Director, Wellcome Leap

We are pleased to count as emeritus directors, the scientific visionaries who helped found Wellcome Leap. The former Wellcome Director, Jeremy Farrar, who is now serving as the Chief Scientific Officer at the World Health Organization, and former Deputy Chair of the Wellcome Board of Governors, Mike Ferguson. Former directors that also served Wellcome Leap’s board include Ho Ching (March 2021 – March 2024) and Paul Shreier (February 2023 – January 2024).
Black and white circular photo of Jeremy Farrar, Wellcome Leap Director Emeritus.

Jeremy Farrar

Director Emeritus, Wellcome Leap

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Mike Ferguson

Director Emeritus, Wellcome Leap

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Ho Ching

Director Emeritus, Wellcome Leap

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Paul Schreier

Director Emeritus, Wellcome Leap

Who joins Wellcome Leap?

Our programs are actively led and orchestrated by a Program Director who adjusts, iterates, and directs teams working together so as to solve problems they cannot solve alone. You should join Wellcome Leap if you want an opportunity to pursue what others may think too crazy an idea, to challenge an entire industry, or to catalyze the formation of a new one. But don’t plan to come for a career. Program Directors come to run a project that can change the world. And many do.

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Holly Baines

1kD Program Director

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Jason Swedlow

ΔT Program Director

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Susanne Ahmari

MCPsych Program Director

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Duccio Medini

R3 Program Director

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Sarah Stock

In Utero Program Director

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Thomas G. Weiser

SAVE Program Director

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Shihan Sajeed

Q4Bio Program Director

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Lynne Cox

Dynamic Resilience Program Director

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Kevin Jones

Untangling Addiction Program Director

Past Program Directors

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Annie Moisan

HOPE Program Director

This kind of work is hard.
The hard is what makes it great.

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