Chairperson

Erica Brown, Ph.D.
Acting Director
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892

Members

Natalie G. Ahn, Ph.D. (Extended, May 2026)
Distinguished Professor
Department of Biochemistry
​​University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309-0596

Eric Alani, Ph.D. (2026)
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853 ​ 

Lesilee Rose, Ph.D. (Extended, May 2026)
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. (2026)
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 K. Warne, M.D., Ph.D. (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

Leyte Winfield, Ph.D. (2026)
Professor 
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Division Chair
Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Spelman College
Atlanta, GA 30314-4395

Ad Hoc Participants

Rick A. Bevins, Ph.D. 
Mildred Francis Thompson University Professor
Director, Rural Drug Addiction Research Center
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 65888-0308

​​Catherine Eichhorn, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Lincoln - Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588

Jani C. Ingram, Ph.D.
Regents' Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dr. Don Gilbert Endowed Chair in Chemistry
Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011

Glen Liszczak, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biochemistry 
Director of the Biochemistry Graduate Program
Virginia Murchison Linthicum Scholar in Medical Research
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX 75390

Executive Secretary

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

Ex-Officio 

Ronald M. Przygodzki, M.D.
Director
Genomic Medicine
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Administration
Office of Research and Development (14RD)
Washington, DC 20420