Advisory Council Roster

Jon R. Lorsch, Ph.D. (Chairperson)
Director
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892
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David A. Agard, Ph.D. (14)
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
San Francisco, CA 94158-2517
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Gail Ellen Besner, M.D. (16)
H. William Clatworthy, Jr. Professor of Surgery
Chief, Department of Pediatric Surgery
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, OH 43205
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Mary L. (Molly) Carnes, M.D. (14)
Professor
Director, Center for Women’s Health Research
Director, Women Veterans Health Program
Departments of Medicine, Psychiatry and Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Wisconsin
Center for Women’s Health Research
Madison, WI 53715
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Luisa DiPietro, D.D.S., Ph.D. (13)
Professor
Department of Periodontics
Director, Center for Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration
University of Illinois at Chicago
College of Dentistry
Chicago, IL 60612
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Alan Rick Horwitz, Ph.D. (16)
Harrison Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology
Associate Vice President for Bioscience Programs
Department of Cell Biology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22908
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Richard L. Lalonde, Pharm.D. (16)
Vice President and Global Head of Clinical Pharmacology
Pfizer, Inc.
Groton, CT 06340

Karolin Luger, Ph.D. (13)
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Colorado State University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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David O. Meltzer, M.D., Ph.D. (13)
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Section of Hospital Medicine
Director, Center for Health and Social Sciences
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
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Scott J. Miller, Ph.D. (15)
Irénée Dupont Professor of Chemistry
Chairperson
Department of Chemistry
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520
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Duggan Professor of Molecular, Cellular
and Developmental Biology
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Diana S. Natalicio, Ph.D. (16)
President
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968
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Marc A. Nivet, Ed.D. (15)
Chief Diversity Officer
Division of Diversity Policy Programs
Association of American Medical Colleges
Washington, DC 20037
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Vern L. Schramm, Ph.D. (14)
Professor and Ruth Merns Chair
Department of Biochemistry
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Yeshiva University
Bronx, NY 10461
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Margaret C. Werner-Washburne, Ph.D. (15)
Regents’ Professor
Department of Biology
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
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University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844
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Executive Secretary

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

Ex-Officio Members

Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Director
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892-0148
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The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary
Department of Health and Human Services
Washington, DC 20201
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