Genentech: Aviv Regev

Aviv Regev will join Genentech as head of research and early development, effective August 1. She will replace Michael Varney, who will retire from his post at the end of July, and will also join Genentech's enlarged corporate executive committee. Regev is currently faculty chair, core institute member, and a member of the executive leadership team at the Broad Institute, as well as a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Prior to that, she was a Bauer fellow at the Center for Genomics Research at Harvard University. Regev holds a PhD in computational biology and a master of science degree from Tel Aviv University.