The Board of Directors includes some of the country’s most distinguished biomedical research scientists:

  • Jo Handelsman (Chair)
    Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
  • Keith R. Yamamoto ( Former Chair)
    University of California, San Francisco
    Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
  • Needhi Bhalla (at-large)
  • University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Sue Biggins (at-large)
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
    Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
  • Rebecca Burdine (GSA)
    Princeton University
    Department of Molecular Biology
  • Martin Chalfie (at-large)
    Columbia University
  • Hollis Cline (SFN)
    The Scripps Research Institute
  • Daniel Colon-Ramos (at-large)
    Yale School of Medicine
  • Vaughn Cooper, Ph.D. (ASM)
    Microbiology and Molecular Genetics | Director,
    Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine
  • Nancy Jean Cox (ASHG)
    Vanderbilt Brain Institute
  • Enrique De La Cruz (at-large)
    Yale University
  • Holly Goodson (ASCB)
    University of Notre Dame
  • Carol Greider (at-large)
    University of California, Santa Cruz
  • James Haber (GSA)
    Brandeis University
  • H. Robert Horvitz (at-large)
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
  • Joseph Jez (ASBMB)
  • Washington University
  • Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
  • Judith Kimble (at-large)
    Vilas Professor of Biochemistry
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
  • Connie M. Lee (ASCB)
    Associate Dean for Basic Science
    Biological Sciences Division
    The University of Chicago
  • Richard Lifton (at-large)
    Rockefeller University
    Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
  • Diane Lipscombe
  • Carney Institute of Brain Science, Director
  • Brown University
  • Elizabeth McNally (at-large)
    University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Richard M. Myers (HudsonAlpha)
    HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
  • Thomas Pollard (at-large)
    Yale University
  • Stacey Schultz-Cherry (ASM)
    Member, Department of Host-Microbe Interactions
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
  • Bodo Stern (HHMI)
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Chief Development and Strategy Officer
  • Ann Stock (ASBMB)
  • Rutgers University
  • Shirley Tilghman (at-large)
    Princeton University
    Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
  • Blanton Tolbert (HHMI)
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Vice President Science Leadership and Culture
  • Harold Varmus (at-large)
    Weill Cornell Medicine
    Meyer Cancer Center
  • Nikhil Wagle (Genentech)
    Genentech, Inc
  • Anthony Wynshaw-Boris (ASHG)
    Case Western University
    Chair, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine
Society Representation
  • Amanda Perl
  • American Society of Human Genetics
  • Mona Miller
  • American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Rebecca Alvania
    American Society for Cell Biology
  • Stefano Bertuzzi
    American Society for Microbiology
  • Tracey DePellegrin
    Genetics Society of America
  • Marty Saggese
    Society for Neuroscience