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

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

Angela Byars-Winston, Ph.D. 
Professor
Department of Medicine
Institute for Diversity Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53715

Angela DePace, Ph.D.​
Department of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School
Scientific Program Officer,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Boston, MA 02115 ​​

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

Amy Rosenzweig, Ph.D.
Weinberg Family Distinguished Professor
of Life Sciences
Professor
Departments of Molecular Biosciences and
​of Chemistry
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208​

Pamela Stacks, Ph.D. 
Professor Emerita, Department of Chemistry
Division of Research and Innovation
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA 95192

Jeffrey Sun, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor & Distinguished University Scholar
Associate Dean for Innovation & Strategic Partnerships
College of Education & Human Development
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292​​

​​Wendy Young, Ph.D.​
President
BioPharma Discovery
San Mateo, CA 94402​

Ad Hoc Participants

Jeffrey Mugridge, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

Justus C. Ndukaife, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37212

Lucy Erin O’Brien, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology & Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine ​​
​Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA 94305

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