CEO of Paul Allen’s $3.1B science and tech fund steps down less than a year after launch

Lynda Stuart’s last day at the Fund for Science and Technology was May 8. (File photo courtesy FFST) The first CEO of the Fund for Science and Technology , the $3.1 billion foundation responsible for giving away a large portion of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s fortune, has stepped down nine months after its public launch . Lynda Stuart, a physician-scientist who previously led the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington, announced her departure on Thursd