Scientific leadership, growing faculty community & the team that helps their work move.
Leadership
Dr. James White
Institute Director
Dr. Christiane Job McIntosh
Director, Strategy and Impact
Dr. Melanie King
Associate Director
Jacqueline Flewitt
Manager, Strategic Partnerships
Enabling Team
Patrick (Yuanchao) Feng
Lead Analyst
David Aponte
Technical Lead, Data Platforms
Dr. Matthias Wilms
Assistant Professor
Yujin Lee
Administrative Coordinator
Caitlyn Gilbert
Research Associate
Laiba Nasir
Communications Lead
Ways to belong
Affiliate Faculty — connect aligned expertise and work.
Core Faculty — help shape priorities, nodes, capabilities, and partnerships.
Faculty-led nodes — focused scientific communities that remain academically situated in their home environments.
What PULSE adds
Navigation, technical and partnership connections, project development, translation support, visibility, shared learning, and opportunities for collaboration.
Scientific leadership remains with the investigators and programs doing the work.