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Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), composed of scientists working in academia, industry and government, meets each January and June to approve topics for presentation in our next round of conferences and to suggest ways to improve the focus, quality, and balance of the approved program topics.

Governance is provided by a Board of Directors (denoted with #) composed of scientists from academia, industry, government and foundations.

E. Dale Abel, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Human Genetics
Chief Division of Endocrinolgy Metabolism and Diabetes
Investigator, Program in Molecular Medicine
Medicine and Biochemistry
University of Utah School of Medicine

Jim Aiken, Ph.D.#
President and Chief Executive Officer
Keystone Symposia

Kenneth W. Bair, Ph.D.#
Senior Vice President and Head
Research and Development
Forma Therapeutics, Inc.

Jacques F. Banchereau, Ph.D.
Senior VP & Chief Science Officer
Inflammation & Virology
Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.

Ralph A. Bradshaw, Ph.D.#
Professor
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Deputy Director
Mass Spectrometry Facility
University of California, San Francisco

Stephen L. Brenner, Ph.D.
Vice President
Molecular Biosciences
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Leslie J. Browne, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Senesco Technologies, Inc.

Thomas F. Bumol, Ph.D.
Vice President
Biotechnology Research, Lilly Research Laboratories
President & Site Head
Applied Molecular Evolution, Inc. and
Lilly Biotechnology Center - San Diego

Judith Campisi, Ph.D.
Professor
Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Arturo Casadevall, M.D.
Professor and Chair
Microbiology and Immunology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Hubert C. Chen, M.D.
Vice President
Translational Medicine
Regulus Therapeutics, Inc.

Robert L. Coffman, Ph.D.
Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer
Dynavax Technologies

Max D. Cooper, M.D.
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine
Emory University

Robert W. Craig, #
President Emeritus
The Keystone Center

Alan J. Cross, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist
CNS & Pain Innovative Medicines
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals

Edward A. Dennis, Ph.D.#
Professor
Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology
School of Medicine
University of California, San Diego

Manoj C. Desai, Ph.D.
Vice President
Medicinal Chemistry
Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Vishva M. Dixit, M.D.
Vice President Research
Physiological Chemistry
Genentech, Inc.

Robert H. Eckel, M.D.
Charles A. Boettcher Endowed Chair in Atherosclerosis
Professor of Medicine and of Physiology and Biophysics
Program Director, Adult GCRC
Medicine/Endocrinology
University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus

Martin P. Edwards, Ph.D.
Vice President
Cancer Chemistry
Pfizer La Jolla

Lee M. Ellis, M.D.
Professor
Cancer Biology and Surgical Oncology
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Beverly M. Emerson, Ph.D.#
Professor
Regulatory Biology Laboratory
The Salk Institute

I. Sadaf Farooqi, Ph.D., FRCP
Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow and Reader in Human Metabolism
Metabolic Research Laboratories
University of Cambridge

Peter M. Finan, Ph.D.#
Director, Pathways Biology
Developmental and Molecular Pathways
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc.

Curt R. Freed, M.D.
Professor and Head
Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Colorado, Denver

Adolfo García-Sastre, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Microbiology
Co-Director
Emerging Pathogens Institute
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Tariq Ghayur, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Abbott Bioresearch Center

Douglas R. Green, Ph.D.
Doherty Chair of Immunology
Department of Immunology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Philip D. Gregory, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Research
Sangamo Biosciences, Inc.

Diane E. Griffin, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Heidi E. Hamm, Ph.D.#
Professor and Chair
Department of Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Curtis C. Harris, M.D.#
Chief, Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis
NCI / National Institutes of Health

Jacqueline E. Heard, Ph.D.
Venture Capital Principal, Global Strategy and R&D Investments
Monsanto Company

Kim A. Heidenreich, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Colorado, Denver (UCHSC)

Christopher L. Karp, M.D.
Professor
Director
Division of Molecular Immunology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation

Elliott D. Kieff, M.D., Ph.D.
Albee Professor
Medicine & Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Harvard University

Laura L. Kiessling, Ph.D.
Hilldale Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Laurens Anderson Professor of Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Jacqueline Kirchner, Ph.D.
Scientific Director
Inflammation
Amgen

  Christopher Kirk, Ph.D.
Director
Preclinical Research
Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Jan E. Leach, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Professor
Bioagricultural Sciences
Colorado State University

Edison T. Liu, M.D.#
President and Chief Executive Officer
Office of the President and CEO
The Jackson Laboratory

Margaret A. Liu, M.D.#
ProTherImmune
Visiting Professor
Karolinska Institutet

Karolin Luger, Ph.D.
Investigator
HHMI
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Colorado State University

Elizabeth M. McNally, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Medicine and Human Genetics
University of Chicago

Juanita L. Merchant, MD, Ph.D.
Professor
Internal Medicine & Molecular & Integrative Physiology
University of Michigan

Tara Mirzadegan, Ph.D.
Team Leader
Computational Chemistry
Johnson & Johnson

Gary J. Nabel, M.D., Ph.D.#
Bethesda, MD

Donald W. Nicholson, Ph.D.
Vice President, Worldwide Discovery Head, R&I
Merck & Co. Inc.

Hiroyuki Odaka, Ph.D.
General Manager
Pharmaceutical Research Division
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

Anne O'Garra, Ph.D.
Head
Division of Immunoregulation
MRC National Institute for Medical Research

Terry J. Opgenorth, Ph.D.#
Vice President
CSU Ventures

Eric M. Parker, Ph.D.
Senior Director and Neuroscience Site Lead
Department of Neurobiology
Merck Research Laboratories

Tony Pawson, Ph.D.#
Senior Investigator
Centre for Systems Biology
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute

Catherine E. Peishoff, Ph.D.
Vice President
Computational & Structural Chemistry
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals

Ronald T. Raines, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Roger R. Reddel, Ph.D.
Director
Children's Medical Research Institute, Sydney

Juan Rivera, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
Intramural Research Program
Chief
Laboratory of Molecular Immunogenetics & Molecular Immunology Section
NIAMS / National Institutes of Health

Nadia A. Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Director
EMBL Monterotondo
Mouse Biology Unit
European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Andrej Sali, Ph.D.
Professor
Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
University of California, San Francisco

Martin Schneider, Ph.D.
SVP
Global Therapeutical Research
Professor
Global Drug Discovery
Bayer HealthCare AG

Alan Sher, Ph.D.#
Bethesda, MD

Stephen James Simpson, Ph.D.
Life Sciences Directorate
Science Foundation Ireland

Frank J. Slack, Ph.D.
Professor
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Yale University

Didier Y. R. Stainier, Ph.D.
Professor
Biochemistry & Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco

Eric E. Swayze, Ph.D.
Vice President
Medicinal Chemistry
ISIS Pharmaceuticals

Doris A. Taylor, Ph.D.
Medtronic Bakken Chair of Physiology and Medicine
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Repair
Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology
University of Minnesota

Craig B. Thompson, M.D.#
President and CEO
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Thomas Tuschl, Ph.D.
HHMI Investigator
Associate Professor
Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology
Rockefeller Institute

Nicolai R. Wagtmann, Ph.D.
Vice President
Head of Inflammation Biology
Biopharmaceuticals Research Unit
Novo Nordisk A/S

Michael J.O. Wakelam, Ph.D.
Institute Director
The Babraham Institute

David R. Webb, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Molecular Biology
The Scripps Research Institute

Kenneth F. Wertman, Ph.D.
Scientific Director, Tucson
Associate Vice President Discovery Research
Chemical Analytical Sciences
Sanofi US

Ian A. Wilson, Ph.D., Sc.D., FRS#
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
The Scripps Research Institute

David L. Woodland,

Juleen R. Zierath, Ph.D.#
Professor
Molecular Medicine and Surgery
Karolinska Institutet

# Member, Symposia Board of Directors



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