Chairperson

Jon R. Lorsch, Ph.D.
Director
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892

Members

Natalie G. Ahn, Ph.D. 
Distinguished Professor
Department of Biochemistry
​​University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309-0596

Eric Alani, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853 ​ 

​Ron G. King, Ph.D., M.B.A. 
Adjunct Professor
Translational Genomics Department 
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California 
Los Angeles, CA 90089 

Terri Goss Kinzy, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ 08854

David H. Mathews, M.D., Ph.D. 
Lynne E. Maquat Distinguished Professor of RNA Biology 
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics 
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York 14642

Lesilee Rose, Ph.D. 
Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
College of Biological Sciences
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616 

​ Christopher W. Seymour, M.D., M.Sc. 
Associate Professor
Department of Critical Care Medicine
Associate Professor
Departments of Emergency Medicine & Clinical Translational Science
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA 15261 

Donald Warne, M.D., M.P.H. (2026) 
Provost Fellow
Indigenous Health Policy Co-Director
Center for Indigenous Health
Professor of Public Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD 21231

Ad Hoc Participants

Julie Bastarache, M.D. 
Director, Edge for Scholars
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cell & Developmental Biology, Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology
Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine
Vanderbilt University
Medical Center
Nashville, TN 37232-2650

​​Chrstine R. Beck, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor
Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences
University of Connecticut Health Center & The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
Farmington, CT 06032

Paulo Caceres, Ph.D.
Assistant Scientist
Internal Medicine
Hypertension and Vascular Research Division
Henry Ford Health
Integrative Biosciences Center
Detroit, MI 48202

Sudha Chakrapani, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Pharmacology
John H. Hord Professor
Director, Cleveland Center for Membrane and Structural Biology
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland OH 44106

Stephen Cutler, Ph.D.
Vice President for Economic Development
Dean and Professor
College of Pharmacy
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208

Neil Garg, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor and Kenneth N. Trueblood Chair
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Christina Kendziorski, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin — Madison
Madison, Wisconsin 53706

Lydia Kisley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Departments of Physics & Chemistry
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH 44106-7079

L. Andrew Lee, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
IMCS, Inc.
Irmo, SC 29063

Petra Levin, Ph.D.
George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology
Department of Biology
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130

Gerald Marschke, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
University at Albany, State University of New York
Albany, NY 12222

Ian McClure, J.D., LL.M.
Vice President of Innovation, UK HealthCare
Associate Vice President for Research, Innovation and Economic Impact
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0286

Pamela Padilla, Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Sciences
Vice President of Research and Innovation
Division of Research and Innovation
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203-5017

Mansi Srivastava, Ph.D.
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Curator in Invertebrate Zoology
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

Aaron Thomas, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812

JoAnn Trejo, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Professor
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine
Senior Assistant Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences Faculty Affairs
Director, San Diego IRACDA Scholars Program
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093

Oscar Vivas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute.
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195

Ann West, Ph.D.
Grayce B. Kerr Centennial Chair
Director, Oklahoma COBRE in Structural Biology
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
The University of Oklahoma
Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center
Norman, OK 73019-9705

Executive Secretary

Erica Brown, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Extramural Activities
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892

Ex-Officio Members

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Secretary
Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, DC 20201
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Jayanta Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D.
Director
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892-0148
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Ronald M. Przygodzki, M.D. 
Director
Genomic Medicine
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Administration
Washington, DC 20420