Heather Youngs, Program Officer, Scientific Research at Open Philanthropy Project.
Heather joined the Open Philanthropy Project in August 2016. Her goal is to identify philanthropic opportunities in transformative basic and applied research that have important societal impact. Heather was director of the Bakar Fellows Program for faculty entrepreneurs at UC Berkeley, a senior strategic advisor at the Energy Biosciences Institute at UC Berkeley and an assistant professor at Michigan Technological University. She received a B.S. in biology from Michigan Technological University, a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Oregon Health and Science University and was an NIH post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University.