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
• Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas,
  Ph.D.
  
  Professor of Cell Biology
  Department of Cell Biology
  Harvard Medical School
• Patricia Babbitt, Ph.D.
  Professor and Vice Chair
  Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
  University of California, San Francisco
• William E. Balch, Ph.D.
  Professor
  Department of Cell Biology
  The Scripps Research Institute
• Mary Beckerle, Ph.D.
  Ralph E. and Willa T. Main Presidential Professor
  Chief Executive Officer and Director
  Huntsman Cancer Institute
  University of Utah
• Stephen J. Benkovic, Ph.D.
  Evan Pugh Professor and Eberly Chair in Chemistry
  The Pennsylvania State University
• William A. Catterall, Ph.D.
  
  Professor and Chair
  Department of Pharmacology
  University of Washington School of Medicine
• Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D.
  
  Professor
  Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Biology and Genetics
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Vicki L. Chandler, Ph.D.
  Chief Program Officer, Science
  Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
• Michael Czech, Ph.D.
  Professor and Chair
  Program in Molecular Medicine
  University of Massachusetts Medical School
• Vishva Dixit, Ph.D.
  Vice President, Early Discovery Research
  Genentech, Inc.
• Susan Gottesman, Ph.D.
  Head, Biochemical Genetics Section
  Co-Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Biology
  Center for Cancer Research
  National Cancer Institute
• Alan Hall, Ph.D.
  Chairman
  Cell Biology Program
  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Richard Henderson,
  Ph.D., F.R.S.
  MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
• Bertil Hille, Ph.D.
  Professor
  Department of Physiology and Biophysics
  University of Washington
• Robb Krumlauf, Ph.D.
  Scientific Director
  Stowers Institute for Medical Research
• Lynn Landmesser, Ph.D.
  Garvin Professor and Chair
  Department of Neurosciences
  Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
• Jennifer Lippincott-
  Schwartz, Ph.D.
  Distinguished NIH Investigator
  Cell Biology and Metabolism Program
  Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• Tom Maniatis, Ph.D.
  Professor and Chairman
  Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
  Columbia University
• Michael A. Marletta, Ph.D.
  President-Elect
  Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Professor of Chemistry
  The Scripps Research Institute
• Diane Mathis, Ph.D.
  Professor of Pathology
  Harvard Medical School
• W. James Nelson, Ph.D.
  Rudy J. and Daphne Donohue Munzer Endowed Professor
  Departments of Biology and Molecular and Cellular Physiology
  James H. Clark Center
  The Bio-X Program
  Stanford University
• Eric N. Olson, Ph.D.
  Professor and Chairman
  Department of Molecular Biology
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Luis F. Parada, Ph.D.
  Professor and Chairman
  Department of Developmental Biology
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Hidde Ploegh, Ph.D.
  Member
  Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
  Professor of Biology
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• David Russell, Ph.D.
  Vice Provost and Dean of Basic Research
  McDermott Distinguished Professor
  Department of Molecular Genetics
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Joshua R. Sanes, Ph.D.
  Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
  Paul J. Finnegan Family Director, Center for Brain Science
  Harvard University
• Robert T. Sauer, Ph.D.
  Salvador E. Luria Professor
  Department of Biology
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 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
  Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences
  Duke University