Scientific Review Board

The Scientific Review Board (SRB) comprises distinguished scientists who participate in the review of Institute investigators for reappointment. They work with the Medical Advisory Board in this capacity. Their opinions are advisory to the president.

The SRB is constituted to have a breadth of expertise that encompasses that of the HHMI investigators. Typically 25-35 members are sufficient to span the relevant biomedical subfields. The term of appointment of each member is four years. Appointments are made by the vice president who has responsibility for organization of the investigator reviews, subject to approval by the president.

Each SRB member participates in one, or occasionally two, investigator review meetings per year. They are assigned investigator reviews that are aligned with their own scientific expertise. SRB members are also expected to attend one of the Institute's scientific meetings each year

Scientific Review Board Members

• Wolfhard Almers, Ph.D.
  Senior Scientist
  Vollum Institute
  Oregon Health and Science University
• Michael Ashburner, F.R.S.
  Professor of Biology
  Department of Genetics
  University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Mary Beckerle, Ph.D.
  Ralph E. and Willa T. Main Presidential Professor
  Executive Director
  Huntsman Cancer Institute
  University of Utah
• Stephen J. Benkovic, Ph.D.
  Evan Pugh Professor and Eberly Chair in Chemistry
  The Pennsylvania State University
• Kathryn Calame, Ph.D.
  
  Professor of Microbiology and Biochemistry and
  Molecular Biophysics
  Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
• William A. Catterall, Ph.D.
  
  Chairman
  Department of Pharmacology
  University of Washington
• Sara A. Courtneidge, Ph.D.
  
  Professor and Director
  Cell Adhesion and Extracellular Matrix Program
  Burnham Institute for Medical Research
• Jorge E. Galán, Ph.D.
  Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbiology
  Chairman
  Section of Microbial Pathogenesis
  Yale University School of Medicine
• Richard H. Goodman, M.D.,
  Ph.D.
  Director, Vollum Institute
  Oregon Health and Science University
• Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D.
  Jean McLean Wallace Professor and Chair
  Department of Pediatrics
  Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
  Yale University School of Medicine
  Physician-in-Chief
  Yale–New Haven Children's Hospital
• Richard D. Kolodner, Ph.D.
  Member
  Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego Branch
  Professor of Medicine
  University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
  Executive Director for Laboratory Science and Technology
  Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, New York
• Lynn Landmesser, Ph.D.
  Garvin Professor and Chair
  Department of Neurosciences
  Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
• Michael A. Marletta, Ph.D.
  Aldo DeBenedictis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
  Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  University of California, Berkeley
• Gail R. Martin, Ph.D.
  Professor and Vice-Chair
  Department of Anatomy
  University of California, San Francisco
• Diane Mathis, Ph.D.
  Head, Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics
  Joslin Diabetes Center
  Professor of Medicine
  Harvard Medical School
• Keith Moffat, Ph.D.
  Louis Block Professor
  Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and
  Deputy Provost for Research
  The University of Chicago
• W. James Nelson, Ph.D.
  Rudy J. and Daphne Donohue Munzer Endowed Professor
  Departments of Biological Sciences,
  and Molecular and Cellular Physiology
  Stanford University
• Eric N. Olson, Ph.D.
  Professor and Chairman
  Department of Molecular Biology
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
• James W. Patrick, Ph.D.
  Senior Vice President and Dean for Research
  Baylor College of Medicine
• Gregory A. Petsko, D.Phil.
  Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry
  and Molecular Pharmacodynamics and Director
  Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center
  Brandeis University
• Janet Rossant, Ph.D.
  University Professor of Medical Genetics
  and of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  University of Toronto
  Chief of Research
  The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
• Joshua R. Sanes, Ph.D.
  Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
  Director, Center for Brain Science
  Harvard University
• Robert T. Sauer, Ph.D.
  Salvador E. Luria Professor, Department of Biology
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• David W. Tank, Ph.D.
  Henry L. Hillman Professor of Molecular Biology
  Co-Director, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
  Departments of Molecular Biology and Physics
  Princeton University
• David C. Van Essen, Ph.D.
  Edison Professor and Head
  Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
  Washington University School of Medicine
• Christopher T. Walsh, Ph.D.
  Hamilton Kuhn Professor
  Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
  Harvard Medical School
• Huntington F. Willard, Ph.D.
  Director, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
  Vice Chancellor for Genome Sciences
  Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences
  Duke University