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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.
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.
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.
Christopher Amos, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Term ends 6/2026
Mildred Cho, Ph.D.
Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics
Term ends 6/2027
Audrey Gasch, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Genomic Science Innovation
Term ends 6/2028
Pui-Yan Kwok, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Cardiovascular Research Institute
Term ends 6/2029
Guillermina Lozano, Ph.D.
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Department of Genetics
Term ends 6/2026
Donna Martin, M.D., Ph.D.
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.
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: September 20, 2024