RAGON - Key Persons


Alan Garber

Job Titles:
  • President of Harvard University

Anne Klibanski

Job Titles:
  • President and Chief Executive Officer of Mass General Brigham

Anne White

Job Titles:
  • Associate Provost and Associate Vice President for Research Administration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Arup Chakraborty

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee

Beatrice Hahn

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Bruce D. Walker - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founding Director
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Team
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Director, Ragon Institute / Read Biography Lab

Cynthia Barnhart

Job Titles:
  • Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dan Barouch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • William Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine and Professor of Immunology, Harvard Medical School

Darrell J. Irvine

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Professor of Immunology and Microbiology, Scripps Research

David Baltimore

Job Titles:
  • President Emeritus & Judge Shirley Hufstedler Professor of Biology. Recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Dennis Burton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Chairman, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Scripps Research

E. John Wherry

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Department of Systems Pharmacology
Chair, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics. Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President's Distinguished Professor. Director, Institute for Immunology. Director, Colton Center for Autoimmunity, University of Pennsylvania

Facundo Batista

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Leadership Team
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Scientific Director
  • Scientific Director, Ragon Institute / Read Biography Lab

George Daley

Job Titles:
  • Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University

Herbert W. Virgin

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Vir Biotechnology
Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Vir Biotechnology. Adjunct Professor of Pathology and Immunology Washington University School of Medicine. Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine UT Southwestern Medical Center

Jennifer Ramírez

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

John M. Deutch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Institute Professor, MIT

John Manning

Job Titles:
  • Provost, Harvard University

John Shaw

Job Titles:
  • Vice Provost for Research, Harvard University

Kristen Massimine

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Louis Picker

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health
Associate Director, Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health & Science University; Senior Scientist, Division of Pathobiology and Immunology, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University; Professor, Department of Pathology and Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University

M. Juliana McElrath

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Director, and Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center PI, HIV - Vaccine Trials Network Laboratory Program

Maddie Rimsa

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Marco Muñoz

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director for Strategic Initiatives at the Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham
Marco Muñoz is the Executive Director for Strategic Initiatives at the Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham, MIT, and Harvard, working in the Office of the Founding Director. Muñoz is also a Senior Advisor on Climate to the President of MIT. For more than 20 years, Muñoz has built and created teams and initiatives to advance social and philanthropic goals in private and public institutions, including academic and governmental organizations. At the Ragon Institute, he builds support around the world to promote the Institute's interests and works with strategic partners who share the Ragon Institute's aim of harnessing the immune system to prevent and cure human disease. He also oversees the Ragon's external communications program. At MIT, Muñoz works with the MIT President and Provost on climate-related efforts and fosters relationships with philanthropic leaders, helping them to connect with the Institute's mission and engaging their partnership in solving some of the world's most pressing challenges. In the private sector, Muñoz worked for more than 10 years as an Of Counsel Attorney at Law in the firm of Bickerstaff Heath Pollan & Caroom LLP in Austin, Texas, where he advised clients on business transactions, regulatory agencies, and financial institutions. He identified and evaluated developing trends in US-Mexico relations and facilitated strategic planning for Mexican and US business opportunities. From 2005 to 2013, Muñoz was the founder and president of the Center for Sustainable Development and Productivity (CFSDP)in Austin.The CFSDP was a nonprofit organization assisting subsistence wage producers of agricultural goods in emerging economies to become self-sustaining and self-sufficient. He is also a founder and member of the board of directors of Oncoheroes Biosciences, the first biotech company focused on childhood cancer and an emerging leader in delivering new pediatric oncology drugs to patients.

Mark Schmeissing

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director of Finance

Mark Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • Institute Board Chair

Mary Carrington

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Senior Principal Investigator, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research in the Laboratory of Integrative Cancer Immunology, National Cancer Institute

Paul Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Chief Academic Officer, Mass General Brigham

Phillip "Terry" Ragon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governance Board
  • Delegate

Robert Kingston

Job Titles:
  • Chief Academic Officer, Mass General Hospital

Ruth Lehmann

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Director & President, Whitehead Institute

Sally Kornbluth

Job Titles:
  • President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ulrich H. von Andrian

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Mallinckrodt Professor of Immunopathology, Harvard Medical School

William Bosworth Castle

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • William Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine and Professor of Immunology, Harvard Medical School