# Silvana Konermann

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## TL;DR

Neuroscientist and co-founder who runs the Arc Institute, an independent research institute in the San Francisco Bay Area built to tackle complex diseases.

## Summary

Silvana Konermann is Co-Founder, Executive Director and a Core Investigator of the Arc Institute, an independent research institute she started with Patrick Hsu and Patrick Collison after the three collaborated on Fast Grants. She is also Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford, holds a PhD in neuroscience from MIT, and has been a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator and a Hanna Gray Fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her laboratory uses CRISPR-based transcriptome engineering and functional genomic screens in brain cell models to uncover the molecular pathways behind Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Tags: leadership; clinician-scientist; genomics; research-institute
- Role: Executive Director and Core Investigator, Arc Institute
- Specialisms: Functional genomics; CRISPR technologies; Neurodegeneration

## Sources

- Source: Arc Institute About page: https://arcinstitute.org/about

## Connected records

- institutions: [Arc Institute](https://onco.cc/institutions/arc-institute/), [Chan Zuckerberg Biohub](https://onco.cc/institutions/cz-biohub/), [Howard Hughes Medical Institute](https://onco.cc/institutions/hhmi/)

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