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.

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Regina E. Dugan

President & CEO

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Richard Gillingwater

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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Judy Swain

Director, Wellcome Leap

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Suzanne Nora Johnson

Director, Wellcome Leap

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Alan Eustace

Director, Wellcome Leap

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John Young

Director, Wellcome Leap

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Thomas Glanzmann

Director, Wellcome Leap

We are pleased to recognize as emeritus the leaders who have helped shape Wellcome Leap and served on our Board of Directors. Jay Flatley, Founding Chair of the Wellcome Leap Board, serves as Chair Emeritus. Scientific visionaries who helped found Wellcome Leap include former Wellcome Director Jeremy Farrar, and former Deputy Chair of the Wellcome Board of Governors Mike Ferguson. Former directors also include Ho Ching (March 2021 – March 2024) and Paul Schreier (February 2023 – January 2024).
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Jay Flatley

Chair Emeritus, Wellcome Leap

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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
FORM 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

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Lisa Mosconi

CARE Program Director

Parker Moss

Parker Moss

R3 Global Commercial Program Director

Jackie Maybin, PhD

Jackie Maybin

The Missed Vital Sign Program Director

Birgit Vogel, MD, FACC, FESC

Birgit Vogel

VISIBLE Program Director

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Jennifer Cohn

Focused Antibiotics Program Director

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Rachel Whitaker

Resistance Networks Program Director

Past Program Directors

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Annie Moisan

HOPE Program Director

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Jason Swedlow

ΔT Program Director

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Duccio Medini

R3 Program Director

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Susanne Ahmari

MCPsych Program Director

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Thomas G. Weiser

SAVE Program Director

Sarah Stock, MD, PhD

Sarah Stock

In Utero Program Director

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

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