Organization

Organization and Leadership

Co-Directors

• Ajit Varki, Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UCSD.

• Fred H. Gage, Professor, The Salk Institute, and Adjunct Professor of Neurosciences, UCSD.
  

• Margaret Schoeninger, Professor and past Chair of the Department of Anthropology, UCSD.
  

Associate Director

• Pascal Gagneux, Assistant Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UCSD.

Management Services Officer

• Linda G. Carlson.

Internal Advisors

• David M. Perlmutter, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, UCSD.
• James J. Moore, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCSD.
• Kurt Benirschke, Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Reproductive Medicine, UCSD.

External Advisors

• Francisco J. Ayala, University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine. 
• Kristen Hawkes, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Utah. 
• Bernard Wood, University Professor of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology at George Washington University.
• Derek Denton, Founding Director Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne.
• Jon Kaas, Centennial Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
• Svante Pääbo, Co-Director, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
• Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Professor and Director, Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, Japan. 
• Sarah B. Hrdy, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis.