The SRB works 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.

SRB Members

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