Our Team
A passionate team of scientists.
Cajal is building a research and development team with the passion, drive, and scientific expertise to execute its bold mission of generating novel disease-altering therapies for neurodegeneration.
Leadership Team
Andrew Dervan, MD, MBA
Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer
Ian Peikon, PhD
Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer
Kimberly Scearce-Levie, PhD
Chief Development Officer
Leslie Aberman, JD
General Counsel
Ben Logsdon, PhD
Vice President, Computational Biology
Valerie Huang, MBA
Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development
J. Guy Breitenbucher, PhD
Vice President, Chemistry
Team
Aaron Williams
Drug Discovery
Adebola Enikanolaiye
Translational Models
Aishwarya Gogate
Computational Biology
Anatoly Buchin
Computational Biology
Angelique Nelson
In Vitro Screens
Anna Frolova
Finance
Anna Josephson-Day
Facilities, EHS & Operations
Anna Minkina
Computational Biology
Arvis Sulovari
Computational Biology
Beatriz Saldana
Engineering
Bruno Grande
Engineering
Christian Gaetano
Engineering
Christina Sanford
Drug Discovery
David Paterson
Drug Discovery
Devany Shikiar
High Throughput Imaging
Drew Friedmann
High Throughput Imaging
Eva Nachmanson
Finance
Fen Huang
Drug Discovery
Ignas Cerniauskas
Target Validation
Jen Whitesell
Translational Models
Jeremy Capalungan
Drug Discovery
Johnny Goforth
Target Validation
Karla Hirokawa
Translational Models
Kat Korvas
In Vivo Sciences
Madison Baird
Viral Tools
Marcella Cline
Drug Discovery
Mei Xu
Drug Discovery
Michael Kuranty
In Vivo Sciences
Molly Lindbo
In Vivo Sciences
Morgan Whelchel
In Vitro Screens
Nicole Sanford
Drug Discovery
Nile Graddis
Engineering
Sadie Patraw
Viral Tools
Sana Chintamen
In Vitro Screens
Sarah Naylor
Program & Alliance Management
Scott Shaffer
Drug Discovery
Scott Simmons
Operations
Stephanie Dinh
In Vitro Screens
Thuc Nguyen
Target Validation
Ya-Lin Lu
In Vitro Screens
Board of Directors
Rob Hershberg, MD, PhD
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Cajal Neuroscience
Susan Hockfield, PhD
President Emerita, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Josh Wolfe
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Lux Capital
Tim Kutzkey, PhD
Managing Partner, The Column Group
Jennifer Jarrett, MBA
Chief Operating Officer, Arcus Biosciences
Scientific Advisory Board
Huda Zoghbi, MD
Co-Founder and SAB Chair
Anthony Zador, MD, PhD
Co-Founder
Charles Zuker, PhD
Co-Founder
Richard Hargreaves, PhD
Jay Shendure, MD, PhD
David Holtzman, PhD
Martin Kampmann, PhD
Niranjan Bose, PhD
Martin Burke, MD, PhD
