Dr. Ananda Goldrath is the Executive Vice President of the Allen Institute for Immunology. She previously served as a Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Professor in the School of Biological Sciences in the Molecular Biology Department at UC San Diego. Her work as an Immunologist has contributed to the understanding of transcriptional networks that govern the formation and maintenance of long-lived protective immunity. Professor Goldrath’s research explores the mechanistic basis underlying memory T cell differentiation by driving or suppressing target genes essential for differentiation of protective T cell subsets, by regulating metabolic pathway usage, or by controlling access to and survival in tissues. Using this information, it has proved possible to beneficially manipulate the immune system to eliminate infection and malignancies. Professor Goldrath is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Pew Scholar, a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fellow, and a member of the Immunological Genome Project.