Jeremy Willsey, Ph.D. - Calico Skip to content 0% Calico Research & Technology Research & Technology Publications Drug Development Drug Development Patients Partnering Leadership Careers Job Openings PostDoc Program Mission and Values Leadership Research & Technology Drug Development Patients Partnering Collaborator Profiles People Publications News & Media Press Releases Calico Stories Life at Calico Careers Job Openings PostDoc Program Contact Us Back to Senior R&D Staff Jeremy Willsey, Ph.D. Director, Translational Data Science Jeremy translates multidimensional datasets into actionable insights about the biology underlying aging and age-related diseases. About Jeremy leads Calico’s Translational Data Science team with an emphasis on generating tractable biological insights through innovative and integrative analyses of ’Omics datasets. His group works at the interface of our discovery, translational, and clinical research programs to inform and expand our drug development pipeline. Prior to Calico, Jeremy was at the University of California, San Francisco where he was an Associate Professor, co-director and co-founder of the Psychiatric Cell Map Initiative, and co-leader of several international psychiatric genetics consortia. At UCSF, Jeremy’s work focused on the identification of large effect risk genes for multiple psychiatric disorders and the subsequent translation of these findings into tangible insights about etiology and hypotheses for therapeutic interventions. Education: Postdoc in Genetics and Systems Biology, University of California, San Francisco Ph.D. in Genetics, Lab of Matthew State, Yale University B.S. (honors) in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University Featured Publications: A foundational atlas of autism protein interactions reveals molecular convergence Coexpression networks implicate human midfetal deep cortical projection neurons in the pathogenesis of autism Awards: Weill Trailblazer Award from the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, 2017 Bold and Basic Award from the UCSF Quantitative Biosciences Institute, 2017 Carolyn Slayman Prize in Genetics / Yale University, 2014 See Other Senior R&D Staff Profiles David Stokoe, Ph.D. Head of Oncology Susan Uptain, Ph.D. Head of Project Team Leadership and Regulatory Mariia Yuneva, Ph.D. Senior Principal Investigator Yoshiko Akamatsu, Ph.D. Senior Director, Antibody Discovery and Engineering PREVIOUS BIO NEXT BIO About Us Research & Technology Drug Development Leadership Partnering Our Story Life at Calico Resources Publications Calico Stories News & Media Patients Contact Us Contact Us Join Us Follow Us X LinkedIn Privacy Policy Notice at Collection Terms of Use Code of Conduct 2026 Calico Life Sciences LLC. All rights reserved. Close