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The Board of Scientific Counselors previews and evaluates the intramural research programs of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and provides periodic technical and scientific peer review of the work of our research investigators.

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The Board of Scientific Counselors previews and evaluates the intramural research programs of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and provides periodic technical and scientific peer review of the work of individual investigators in the Division of Intramural Research (DIR).

Board members meet, at the call of the chair, throughout the year, for the purpose of site visits to individual research branches and at least once a year for the full board meeting at which they present their evaluations.

Board of Scientific Counselors Charter

  • About

    The Board of Scientific Counselors previews and evaluates the intramural research programs of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and provides periodic technical and scientific peer review of the work of individual investigators in the Division of Intramural Research (DIR).

    Board members meet, at the call of the chair, throughout the year, for the purpose of site visits to individual research branches and at least once a year for the full board meeting at which they present their evaluations.

    Board of Scientific Counselors Charter

Roster

Christopher Amos, Ph.D. 
Baylor College of Medicine Institute for Clinical and Translational Research 
Term ends 6/2026

Gregory Barsh, M.D., Ph.D. 
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology 
Term ends 6/2024 

Mildred Cho, Ph.D. 
Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics 
Term ends 6/2027 

Audrey Gasch, Ph.D. (pending) 
University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Genomic Science Innovation 
Term ends 6/2028 

Guillermina Lozano, Ph.D. 
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center 
Department of Genetics 
Term ends 6/2026 

Donna Martin, M.D., Ph.D. (pending) 
The University of Michigan Medical Center Department of Pediatrics
Genetics Division 
Term ends 6/2028 

Heather Mefford, M.D., Ph.D. (Board Chair) 
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Center for Pediatric Neurological Disease Research 
Term ends 6/2026 

Timothy Yu, M.D., Ph.D. (pending) 
Boston Children’s Hospital Division of Genetics and Genomics 
Term ends 6/2028 

Adam Siepel, Ph.D. 
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Simons Center for Quantitative Biology 
Term ends 6/2025

Ken Nakamura, Ph.D.
Recording Secretary

Last updated: January 24, 2024