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Our programs and projects are informed by our Scientific Advisory Committee – a panel of notable leaders in research, public health, basic science and public policy.

*Nobel Laureate


Everett Anderson, PhD
James Stillman Professor of Comparative Anatomy
Harvard Medical School

Richard Axel, MD*
University Professor
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons

David Baltimore, PhD*
President
California Institute of Technology

Samuel Barondes, MD
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute

Paul Berg, PhD*
Cahill Professor of Cancer Research and Biochemistry, Emeritus
Stanford University Medical Center

Floyd E. Bloom, MD
Chairman
Department of Neuropharmacology
The Scripps Research Institute

Michael S. Brown, MD*
Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Barbara Hansen, PhD
University of South Florida

William R. Hendee, PhD
Senior Associate Dean and Vice President
The Medical College of Wisconsin

Ronald E. Cape, PhD
Chairman
Caprion Pharmaceuticals

Bart Chernow, MD
Chief Technology Officer
GMP Companies, Inc.

Harvey J. Cohen, MD, PhD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine

Joseph M. Davie, MD, PhD
Targeted Genetics

Rose S. Fife, MD
Assistant Dean, School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Indiana University School of Medicine

William Foege, MD, MPH
Distinguished Professor
Rollins School of Public Health

Murray Goldstein, DO, MPH
Medical Director
United Cerebral Palsy Research and Education Foundation

William N. Kelley, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Health System

David Korn, MD
Senior Vice President, Biomedical & Health Science Research
Association of American Medical Colleges

Philip Leder, MD
Chair
Department of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Herbert Pardes, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Mary-Lou Pardue, PhD
Boris Magasanik Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Howard Schachman, PhD
Professor of the Graduate School
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkley

Phillip A. Sharp, PhD*
Institute Professor and Director
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John F. Sherman, PhD

Maxine F. Singer, PhD
President Emeritus and Senior Scientific Advisor
CASE & First Light
Carnegie Institution of Washington

Reed V. Tuckson, MD
Senior Vice President
Consumer Health and Medical Care Advancement
UnitedHealth Group

Patricia Hinton Walker, PhD, FAAN
Dean
Graduate School of Nursing
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Tadataka Yamada, MD
Executive Director
Global Health program
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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