The Laboratory is governed by a Board of Trustees of up to 40 members that meets three or four times a year. Authority to act for the Board of Trustees between meetings is vested in the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees. The Executive Committee is composed of the Officers of the Board and any other members who may be elected to the Executive Committee by the Board of Trustees. Additional standing and ad hoc committees are appointed by the Board of Trustees to provide guidance and advice in specific areas of the Laboratory’s operations.
Representation on the Board of Trustees itself is divided between business and community leaders and scientists from major educational and research institutions.
The Laboratory is chartered as an educational and research institution by the Board of Regents of the Education Department of the State of New York. It is authorized to operate a graduate program under the name “Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences” and confer the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Master of Science (M.S.), and Doctor of Science (Sc.D.), Honorary.
The Laboratory is designated as a “public charity” under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Officers
Chair
Marilyn H. Simons, Ph.D.
Vice Chair
Charles I. Cogut
Vice Chair
Robert D. Lindsay
Vice Chair
Paul J. Taubman
Treasurer
Elizabeth McCaul
Secretary
Robert W. Lourie, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Bruce W. Stillman, Ph.D.
Chief Operating Officer
John P. Tuke, MBA, MPhil
Chief Financial Officer
Nicholas Milowski, MBA
Life Trustee
Jamie C. Nicholls,
Chair Emeritus
Trustees
Jack Abraham
Founder, CEO and Managing Partner, Atomic
Christine Anderson
Senior Managing Director Global Public Affairs and Marketing,
Blackstone
David Boies
Chairman
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Michael R. Botchan, Ph.D.
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry University of California, Berkeley
Mark L. Claster
Managing Partner
Carl Marks Advisors
Carl Marks
Elizabeth Cogan Fascitelli
Goldman, Sachs & Co., (Retired Partner)
Charles I. Cogut, Vice Chair
Retired Partner,
Simpson Thacher & Barlett, LLP
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.
Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor/HHMI Investigator
Rockefeller University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ellen V. Futter
President Emerita, American Museum of Natural History
Mark Hamer
President, Harvest Real Estate Services, Inc.
Tracy L. Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Cecilia and Keith Terasaki Presidential Endowed Chair
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Dean, Division of Life Sciences at UCLA
Jeffrey E. Kelter
Chief Executive Officer of KSH Capital & Chairman of Jack Creek Investment Corp.
Laurie J. Landeau, V.M.D.
General Manager
Listowel, Inc.
Robert D. Lindsay, Vice Chair
Co-Managing Partner
Lindsay Goldberg LLC
Robert W. Lourie, Ph.D., Secretary
Head of Future Research
Renaissance Technologies LLC
Thomas H. Lister
Partner
Permira Advisers LLC
Elizabeth McCaul, Treasurer
ECB Representative, Supervisory Board
European Central Bank
Howard L. Morgan, Ph.D.
Chairman, B Capital Group
Managing Member, MFCIF, LLC
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
New York, NY
Jamie C. Nicholls,
Chair Emeritus
New York, NY
Lyon Polk
Founder
The Polk Wealth Management Group at Morgan Stanley
Bruce Ratner
New York, NY
Geoffrey Robertson
Director of Business Assistance
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund
Douglas Schloss
President and CEO
Rexford Management
Marilyn H. Simons, Ph.D., Chair
President, MJS Foundation
Co-chair, Simons Foundation
Laura Slatkin
Co-Founder and Board Chair
NEXT for AUTISM
Bruce W. Stillman, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
James M. Stone, Ph.D.
Chairman
The Plymouth Rock Company
Karel Svoboda, Ph.D.
Vice President and Executive Director
Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
Paul J. Taubman, Vice Chair
Chairman and CEO
PJT Partners Inc.
Diana L. Taylor
New York, NY
Honorary Trustees
Bayard Clarkson, M.D., Chair Emeritus
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Lola N. Grace
Founder
Middle East Children’s Institute
Leo A. Guthart
Founder and CEO
Topspin Partners
Nancy Abeles Marks
Nancy Marks Interiors and Carl Marks & Co., Inc.
Eduardo G. Mestre, Chair Emeritus
Vice Chairman
Evercore Partners
William S. Robertson
Chairman
Robertson Foundation for Government
Roy J. Zuckerberg
Senior Director
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Board Committees
Executive
Marilyn Simons, Chair
Casey Cogut
Thomas Lister
Robert Lourie
Elizabeth McCaul
Howard Morgan
Jamie Nicholls
Bruce Stillman
Paul Taubman
Diana Taylor
Audit & Risk
Douglas Schloss, Chair
Elizabeth Cogan Fascitelli
Leo Guthart (Honorary)
Thomas Lister
Elizabeth McCaul
Geoffrey Robertson
Nominating
Paul Taubman, Chair
Ellen Futter
Jeffrey Kelter
Robert Lindsay
Elizabeth McCaul
Bruce Ratner
Douglas Schloss
Marilyn Simons
Laura Slatkin
Bruce Stillman
Committees of the Laboratory
Advancement
Howard Morgan, Chair
Christine Anderson
David Boies
Casey Cogut
Jeffrey Kelter
Laurie Landeau
Robert Lourie
Charlie Prizzi
Laura Slatkin
Bruce Stillman
Diana Taylor
John Tuke
Commercial Relations
James Stone, Chair
Mark Claster
Casey Cogut
Daniel de Roulet Jr.
Peter Koo
Robert Martienssen
Bruce Stillman
John Tuke
Christopher Vakoc
Andrew Whiteley
Anthony Zador
Compensation Review & Advisory
Marilyn Simons, Chair
Tracy Johnson
Jamie Nicholls
Douglas Schloss
Paul Taubman
Diana Taylor
Education
(formerly Academic Affairs and DNA Learning Center)
James Stone, Chair
Michael Botchan
Mark Claster
Casey Cogut
Elaine Fuchs
Ellen Futter
Jacob Goldfield
Tracy Johnson
Laurie Landeau
Robert Lourie
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Marilyn Simons
Bruce Stillman
Karel Svoboda
Facilities
Jeffrey Kelter, Chair
Elizabeth Ainslie
Hans Bosch
Elizabeth Cogan Fascitelli
Elaine Fuchs
Ellen Futter
Mark Hamer
Steven Monez
Frank Sciame
Bruce Stillman
John Tuke
Finance
Elizabeth McCaul, Chair
Elizabeth Cogan Fascitelli
Mark Hamer
Nicholas Milowski
Jamie Nicholls
Douglas Schloss
Marilyn Simons
John Tuke
Investment
Jamie Nicholls, Chair
Alan Breed
Elizabeth Cogan Fascitelli
Anne Dinneen
Thomas Lister
Lyon Polk
Thomas Purcell
Boaz Sidikaro
John Tuke
Robertson Research Fund, Inc.
Board of Trustees
Bruce Stillman (President)
Geoffrey Robertson (Vice President)
Walter Goldschmidts
William Gridley
Leo Guthart
Walter Meier
Lyon Polk
Maud Robertson
Marilyn Simons
Investment Committee
William Gridley
Jamie Nicholls
Lyon Polk
Geoffrey Robertson
John Tuke
Non-board Committees
Archives Advisory
Richard Roberts, Chair
Carter Burwell
Angela Creager
Helen Ann Curry
Walter Gilbert
Laurie J. Landeau
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Ian Peikon
Mila Pollock
Charlie Prizzi
Bruce Stillman
Jan Witkowski
Campaign Planning
Robert Lourie, Chair
Jeffrey Kelter, Vice Chair
Howard Morgan, Vice Chair
Diana Taylor, Vice Chair
Christine Anderson
David Boies
John Desmarais
Jacob Goldfield
Mark Hamer
Lyon Polk
Charlie Prizzi
Bruce Ratner
Marilyn Simons
Laura Slatkin
Cancer Center External Advisory
Martine Roussel, Chair
Kornelia Polyak, Co-Chair
Marcia Cruz Correa
Chad Ellis
Michael Kastan
Richard Marais
Elaine Mardis
Larry Norton
Ramon Parsons
Dana Pe’er
Reuben Shaw
Robert Winn
Graduate School Executive
Arkarup Banerjee, Chair
Razan Alnahhas
Alexander Gann
Leemos Joshua-Tor
Zachary Lippman
Rebecca Leshan
Michael Lukey
Richard McCombie
Andrea Schorn
Lloyd Trotman
CSHL School of Biological Sciences Student Rep
Stony Brook University Student Rep
Graduate School External Advisory
Keith Yamamoto, Chair
Victor Corces
Barbara Meyer
Jodi Nunnari
Joanna Wysocka
Library Advisory
Mila Pollock, Chair
Todor Cvetanovic
Jacqueline Gunther
Sessen Iohannes
David Jackson
Leemor Joshua-Tor
Partha Mitra
David Spector
John Tuke
Prabhadevi Venkataramani
MaryJo Zaborowski
Scientific Advisory Council
Kevan Shokat, Chair
Frederick Alt
Dominique Bergmann
Carol W. Greider
Markus Meister
Kornelia Polyak
Steven Salzberg
Amita Sehgal
Wei Yang
Simons Center for Quantitative Biology External Advisory
Steven Salzberg, Chair
Andrew Clark
David Donoho
Molly Przeworski
Eric Siggia
Eero Simoncelli
As of November 2025