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Board of Scientific Counselors

Louis J. Muglia, MD, PhD, Chair
7/1/2008 – 6/30/2013
Molecular Endocrinology
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics Co-Director, Perinatal Institute, Division of Neonatalogy Director, Center for Preterm Birth Research Cincinnati Children's Hopsital Medical Center Cincinnati, OH
W. Thomas Boyce, MD
7/01/2007 – 6/30/2012
Developmental Psychobiology and Behavioural Science
Professor, Graduate Studies and Medicine, Sunny Hill Health Centre BC Leadership Chair in Child Development College for Interdisciplinary Studies and Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver, BC Canada
Richard Friedman, PhD
7/1/2009 – 6/30/2014
Developmental Immunobiology
Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tuczon, AZ
Barry M. Gumbiner, PhD
7/01/2009 – 6/30/2014
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA
Barbara L. Hempstead, MD, PhD
7/01/2010 – 6/30/2015
Neuroscience, Molecular Physiology
O. Wayne Isom Professor of Medicine and Co-Chief Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Laurinda Jaffe, PhD
7/1/2011 – 6/30/2016
Signal Transduction
Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT
Daniel Johnston, PhD
7/01/2007 – 6/30/2013
Neuroscience
Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, Professor of Neurobiology and Director, Center for Learning and Memory Director, Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
James R. Lupski, MD, PhD, DSc (Hon)
7/01/2009 – 6/30/2014
Genetics
Cullen Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics and Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Tarun B. Patel, PhD
7/1/2010 – 6/30/2015
Cell & Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Therapeutics Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL
Lucia B. Rothman-Denes, PhD
7/1/2010 – 6/30/2015
Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics
Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Lilianna "Lila" Solnica-Krezel, PhD*
7/1/2012 – 6/30/2017
Developmental Biology
Professor and Head, Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Joan Steitz, PhD
7/1/2011 – 6/30/2016
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Jerome F. Strauss, III, MD, PhD
7/1/2009 – 6/30/2014
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Genetics
Dean, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, VCU Health System, Richmond, VA
Richard C. "Mort" Wasserman, MD, MPH
7/1/2010 – 6/30/2015
Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Director, Pediatric Research Office Settings (PROS), American Academy of Pediatrics, Burlington, VT
Michelle A. Williams, DSc
7/1/2011 – 6/30/2016
Epidemiolology
Professor and Chair Department of Epidemiology Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA

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