Leroy Hood is a world-renowned scientist and currently the CEO of Phenome Health as well as Co-Founder and Professor at the Institute of Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle. He co-founded the ISB and served as its first President from 2000-2017. In 2016, ISB affiliated with Providence St.  Joseph Health (PSJH) and Dr. Hood became PSJH’s Senior Vice President and Chief Science Officer. He is also Chief Strategy Officer and Professor at ISB. He was a faculty member at Caltech from 1967-1992, serving for 10 years as the Chair of Biology. In 1992, Dr. Hood founded and chaired the Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington, the first academic department devoted to cross-disciplinary biology. 

Hood received his MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his PhD in biochemistry from Caltech. He has co-founded 17 biotech companies including Amgen, Applied Biosystems, Rosetta and Arivale.