Primary Job Title Co-Founder Primary Organization 
Fate Therapeutics
Location Menlo Park, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
Phillip Beachy studies the normal functions of secreted protein signals of the Hedgehog pathway and the pathological roles of such signaling pathways in developmental disorders and cancer growth.
Phillip Beachy is the Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine in the Departments of Biochemistry and Developmental
Biology, and is a member of the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.
He received a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine and spent two years as staff associate at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Embryology.
He was previously a professor of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Phillip Beachy has been an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1988, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2002) and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2001). His work has been recognized by many awards, including the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology (1998), the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology (2008) and the Keio Medical Science Prize (2011).
