Dr. Lee Hood
Co-founder & Professor, Institute for Systems Biology; CIO & Professor, Buck Institute for Aging; CEO, Phenome Health
Dr. Lee Hood is a world-renowned scientist and has interest in technology development, cross-disciplinary biology for pioneering strategies and technologies, systems biology and data-driven Health. Dr. Leroy Hood co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in 2000, served as president from 2000-2017, and continues as a Professor. He is also Professor and Chief Innovation Officer at the Buck Institute for Research in Aging and CEO of the nonprofit he founded in 2021, Phenome Health, which drives data-driven health.
He received his MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1963) and his PhD in biochemistry from Caltech (1967). Dr. Hood was a Senior Investigator for the National Cancer Institute (1967-1970). Dr. Hood was a faculty member at Caltech from 1970-1992, serving for 10 years as the Chair of Biology. During this period, he and his colleagues developed four sequencer and synthesizer instruments for DNA and proteins that paved the way for the Human Genome Project’s successful sequencing of the human genome. He and his students also deciphered many of the complex mechanisms of antibody diversification. In 1992, Dr. Hood founded and chaired the the first cross-disciplinary Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington. In 2013 he pioneered data-driven health (genome/phenome analyses of individuals) with the year-long 100 person project and then the co-founding of Arivale with its 4 year recruitment of 5000 patients. He is currently pioneering data-driven health and recruiting partners to join him in fundamentally changing healthcare to optimizing wellness, facilitating healthy aging, preventing disease. In 2025 he co-founded P4Bios a peptide drug company that plans transform the pharmaceutical industry. He is currently advocating a continuation of the Human Genome Project termed the Human Phenome Initiative to catalyze a Healthcare for individuals of Wellness and Prevention. Dr. Hood has received national and international awards including the Lasker Award (1987), the Koyto Prize (2006), the National Medical of Science (2011) and the Michael Sela Prize for Biomedicine (2025). He has co-authored text books in biochemistry, immunology, cell biology, genetics and systems biology and medicine. He has co-authored two popular books, The Code of Codes (1991) and the Age of Scientific Wellness ((2023).
Dr. Lee Hood is a world-renowned scientist and has interest in technology development, cross-disciplinary biology for pioneering strategies and technologies, systems biology and data-driven Health. Dr. Leroy Hood co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in 2000, served as president from 2000-2017, and continues as a Professor. He is also Professor and Chief Innovation Officer at the Buck Institute for Research in Aging and CEO of the nonprofit he founded in 2021, Phenome Health, which drives data-driven health.
He received his MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1963) and his PhD in biochemistry from Caltech (1967). Dr. Hood was a Senior Investigator for the National Cancer Institute (1967-1970). Dr. Hood was a faculty member at Caltech from 1970-1992, serving for 10 years as the Chair of Biology. During this period, he and his colleagues developed four sequencer and synthesizer instruments for DNA and proteins that paved the way for the Human Genome Project’s successful sequencing of the human genome. He and his students also deciphered many of the complex mechanisms of antibody diversification. In 1992, Dr. Hood founded and chaired the the first cross-disciplinary Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington. In 2013 he pioneered data-driven health (genome/phenome analyses of individuals) with the year-long 100 person project and then the co-founding of Arivale with its 4 year recruitment of 5000 patients. He is currently pioneering data-driven health and recruiting partners to join him in fundamentally changing healthcare to optimizing wellness, facilitating healthy aging, preventing disease. In 2025 he co-founded P4Bios a peptide drug company that plans transform the pharmaceutical industry. He is currently advocating a continuation of the Human Genome Project termed the Human Phenome Initiative to catalyze a Healthcare for individuals of Wellness and Prevention. Dr. Hood has received national and international awards including the Lasker Award (1987), the Koyto Prize (2006), the National Medical of Science (2011) and the Michael Sela Prize for Biomedicine (2025). He has co-authored text books in biochemistry, immunology, cell biology, genetics and systems biology and medicine. He has co-authored two popular books, The Code of Codes (1991) and the Age of Scientific Wellness ((2023).
