Kristiina Vuori

Since January 2010, Dr. Vuori has served as President of and has held the Pauline and Stanley Foster Presidential Chair at, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (the “Institute”), a non-profit research organization with major research programs in cancer, neurodegeneration, diabetes, and infectious, inflammatory, and childhood diseases. Dr. Vuori also served as the Institute’s interim Chief Executive Officer from January 2013 to September 2014, and from September 2017 to June 2020. Since January 1995, Dr. Vuori has served as a Professor at the Institute’s National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center, an interdisciplinary basic and translational research effort mobilizing over 400 scientists.

Dr. Vuori has previously served or is currently serving on the Board of Directors of Bionano Genomics, Inc., Sio Gene Therapies, Forian, Inc., the American Association for Cancer Research, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the California Breast Cancer Research Council, and WebMD. Dr. Vuori received her M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Oulu, Finland.