
Stacey Donnelly, M.P.A., M.B.E.

Stacey Donnelly was formerly the senior director of strategic operations at the Ó³»´«Ã½ of MIT and Harvard. In this role, she provided leadership and management for the large alliances. She was also the institutional official for the Ó³»´«Ã½â€™s animal facility and was the chief compliance officer for all human subject research. She is now retired but continues to sit on the Ó³»´«Ã½â€™s Innovation Fellowship Committee.
In 2001, Donnelly joined the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, now part of the Ó³»´«Ã½, where she was in charge of the center’s sponsored research portfolio and helped establish and maintain the first high-throughput Specialized Service Facilities (SSFs). When the Ó³»´«Ã½ became independent in 2009, she established the Ó³»´«Ã½â€™s animal research program and human subjects compliance office, and helped establish the Ó³»´«Ã½â€™s CLIA lab, where she serves as a key staff member.
Donnelly received her B.A. from State University of New York at Albany, a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, and a Master of Science in Bioethics from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
August 2025