Dr. Lon R. Cardon is the President and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory. Previously, he was Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Scientific Strategy Officer at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (2017-2021) and Senior Vice President at GlaxoSmithKline plc (2008-2017). He held positions at the University of Oxford, including head of bioinformatics and statistical genetics at the Wellcome Trust Centre and later as a professor. He is an elected fellow of the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Cardon conducted his Ph.D. research at the University of Colorado Boulder and postdoctoral training at Stanford University.