The Scientific Review Board participates in the review of candidates for our research programs and investigators for reappointment.

The board includes accomplished scientists who collectively represent the breadth of biomedical fields in which HHMI Investigators work.

Members

Larry Abbott, PhD
William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience
Kolb Research Annex
Columbia University

David Altshuler, MD, PhD
Executive Vice President, Global Research, and Chief Scientific Officer
Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Silvia Arber, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology and Cell Biology
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research

Naama Barkai, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics
Weizmann Institute of Science

Lorena Beese, PhD
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Professor of Biochemistry
Duke University

Shelley L. Berger, PhD
Daniel S. Och University Professor
Director, Epigenetics Institute
University of Pennsylvania

Wendy Bickmore, PhD 
Director, MRC Human Genetics Unit
The University of Edinburgh

Alexander Borst, PhD
Director, Department of Circuits – Computation – Models
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology

Nils Brose, MSc, PhD
Professor, Director
Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine

Roger Cone, PhD
Mary Sue Coleman Director and Research Professor
Life Sciences Institute
University of Michigan

Michael Czech, PhD
Isadore and Fannie Foxman Chair of Medical Research
Program in Molecular Medicine
UMass Chan Medical School 

Caroline Dean, PhD
Group Leader
Royal Society Professor
John Innes Centre

William DeGrado, PhD
Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

David Fitzpatrick, PhD
Chief Scientific Director & CEO
Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience

Marc Freeman, PhD
Director and Senior Scientist
Vollum Institute
Oregon Health & Science University

Margaret Goodell, PhD
Professor and Chair, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine

Gregory Hannon, PhD
Director & Senior Group Leader
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
University of Cambridge

Michael Hausser, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow
University College of London

Richard Henderson, PhD, FRS
Programme Leader
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Anthony Hyman, PhD
Director
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Sabine Kastner, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Neuroscience Institute
Princeton University

Jürgen Knoblich, PhD
Scientific Director (Interim)
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology

John Kuriyan, PhD
Dean of Basic Sciences, School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University

Richard Lifton, MD, PhD
President and Carson Family Professor
The Rockefeller University

Kelsey Martin, MD, PhD
Executive Vice President
SFARI and Simons Foundation Neuroscience Collaborations 

Diane Mathis, PhD
Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology
Morton Grove-Rasmussen chair
Harvard Medical School

Sabeeha Merchant, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology
Warren C. Eveland Endowed Chair in Biological Sciences
University of California, Berkeley 

Denise Montell, PhD
Duggan Professor and Distinguished Professor
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
University of California, Santa Barbara

Geeta Narlikar, PhD
Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco

Dmitri Petrov, PhD
Professor of Biology
Director of the Program for Conservation Genomics
Stanford University

Bing Ren, PhD
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
University of California, San Diego

Alex Schier, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology and the Director of the Biozentrum
University of Basel 

Robert Schreiber, PhD
Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky Distinguished Professor, Pathology & Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Petra Schwille, PhD
Director, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry

David Stern, PhD
Professor
Boyce Thompson Institute

Wesley Sundquist, PhD
Chair and Distinguished Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Utah School of Medicine