National Institute of
General Medical Sciences

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

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

​​Leyte Winfield, Ph.D. 
​​Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Division Chair
Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Spelman College
​Atlanta, GA 30314-4395​

Ad Hoc Participants

Christine 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​

​​Sherilynn​ Black, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of the Practice of
​Medical Education
Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement​​
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708​

​​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 441​06​

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

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​​

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​​

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

Ronald M. Przygodzki, M.D. 
Director
Genomic Medicine
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Administration
Washington, DC 20420