Salk Non-Resident Fellows serve as members of the faculty for renewable six-year terms. Nominated by the President and faculty, these individuals come from world-renowned academic organizations where they have achieved high levels of success in the research areas at the Salk Institute. They visit the Salk each year to help benchmark the Institute by advising on the scientific progress of its faculty and on the effectiveness of its existing and proposed scientific programs. The Non-Resident Fellows also play a key decision-making role in the appointment and promotion of the Salk Institute's professors.

David Baltimore, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate
President Emeritus
California Institute of Technology

Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco

Caroline Dean, Ph.D.
Professor and Project Leader, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
John Innes Centre

Thomas M. Jessell, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Columbia University

Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.
President and Director, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Professor of Biology, MIT
Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ph.D.
Bethesda, Maryland

Carla J. Shatz, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology and Neurobiology
Director, BioX at the James Clark Center
Stanford University

Irving L. Weissman, M.D.
Director, Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine