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
  Harvard Medical School
• 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
• William A. Catterall, Ph.D.
  
  Professor and Chair
  Department of Pharmacology
  University of Washington School of Medicine
• Sara A. Courtneidge, Ph.D.
  
  Professor and Director
  Tumor Microenvironment Program
  Director of Academic Affairs
  Burnham Institute for Medical Research
• Jorge E. Galán, Ph.D.
  Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbiology
  Chairman
  Section of Microbial Pathogenesis
  Yale School of Medicine
• Richard H. Goodman, M.D.,
  Ph.D.
  Director, Vollum Institute
  Oregon Health and Science University
• Alan Hall, Ph.D.
  Chairman
  Cell Biology Program
  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D.
  Jean McLean Wallace Professor and Chair
  Department of Pediatrics
  Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
  Yale School of Medicine
• 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
• 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
• 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
• W. James Nelson, Ph.D.
  Rudy J. and Daphne Donohue Munzer Professor
  Department of Biology and of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
  The Bio-X Program
  Stanford University
• Eric N. Olson, Ph.D.
  Professor and Chairman
  Department of Molecular Biology
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
• Luis F. Parada, Ph.D.
  Professor and Chairman
  Department of Developmental Biology
  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
• Gregory A. Petsko, D.Phil.
  Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry and Chair
  Department of Biochemistry
  Brandeis University
  Adjunct Professor
  Department of Neurology and Center for Neurologic Diseases
  Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital
• Hidde Ploegh, Ph.D.
  Member
  Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
  Professor of Biology
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Janet Rossant, Ph.D.
  University Professor of Molecular 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
  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
• Mark Schlissel, Ph.D.
  Dean of Biological Sciences and Professor of Immunology and Pathogenesis
  Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
  University of California, Berkeley
• David W. Tank, Ph.D.
  Henry L. Hillman Professor
  Department of Molecular Biology
  Co-Director, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
  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
  Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences
  Duke University