Roster of Expert Panel Members
Norma M. Allewell, Ph.D.
Interim Vice President for Research
Professor of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Michael D. Caldwell, M.D., Ph.D., FACS
Director, Department of Surgery
Marshfield Clinic
Marshfield, WI
Charles Cantor, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer and Director
Health Care/ Biotechnology
Sequenom, Inc.
Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology
Boston University
Boston, MA
Marvin Cassman, Ph.D.
Independent Research Professional
Former Director, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3)
University of California
San Francisco, CA
Rosalind Coleman, M.D.
Professor of Nutrition and Pediatrics
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Karen J. Colley, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Illinois, College of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Heidi Elizabeth Hamm, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology
Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN
Gerald W. Hart, Ph.D.
Director, Department of Biological Chemistry
John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Leroy Hood, Ph.D.
President
Institute for Systems Biology
Seattle, WA
Yves A. Lussier, M.D.
Associate Director for Informatics
Cancer Research Center
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Richard I. Morimoto, Ph.D.
Director, Rice Institute for Biomedical Research
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Robert F. Murphy, Ph.D.
Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology
Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering and Machine Learning
Director (Department Head), Lane Center for Computational Biology
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
W. James Nelson, Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Sciences and Molecular
Cellular Physiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, CA
William L. Smith, Ph.D.
Professor, Biological Chemistry
Chair, Biological Chemistry
Minor J. Coon Professor of Biological Chemistry
Department of Biochemistry
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI
Lisa Staiano-Coico, Ph.D.
Temple University Provost and
Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs
City College of New York
New York, NY
Susan S. Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Department of Pharmacology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA
Christopher T. Walsh, Ph.D.
Hamilton Kuhn Professor
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Members of the Glue Grant Assessment Organizing Committee
(Present during both Open and Closed Sessions)
Peter Preusch, Ph.D., Chairperson
Chief, Biophysics Branch
Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics, NIGMS
Juliana Blome, Ph.D.
Chief, Office of Program Evaluation and Analysis, NIGMS
Rosalina Bray
Office of Program Evaluation and Analysis, NIGMS
Susan Haynes, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology, NIGMS
John Laffan, Ph.D.
Scientific Review Officer
Office of Scientific Review, NIGMS
Richard Okita, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry
Karin Remington, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, NIGMS
NIGMS Program Officers and Scientific Liaisons
(Present during Open Sessions)
Rochelle Long, Ph.D.
Chief, Pharmacology and Physiology Branch
Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry
Program Official – Alliance for Cell Signaling
James Deatherage, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics
Scientific Liaison – Cell Migration Consortium
Marion Zatz, Ph.D.
Chief, Developmental and Cellular Processes Branch
Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology
Program Official – Cell Migration Consortium
Donna Krasnewich, M.D.
Program Director
Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology
Scientific Liaison – Consortium for Functional Glycomics
Pamela Marino, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry
Program Official – Consortium for Functional Glycomics
Scott Somers, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry
Program Official – Inflammatory Response to Host Injury
Jean Chin, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics
Scientific Liaison – Lipid MAPS
Bert Shapiro, Ph.D.
Chief, Cell Biology Branch
Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics
Program Official – Lipid MAPS
NIGMS Management
(Present during Open Sessions)
Jeremy Berg, Ph.D.
Director, NIGMS
Ann Hagan, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Extramural Activities
Paul Sheehy, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Division of Extramural Activities
Michael Rogers, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry
Catherine Lewis, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics
Others Present During Open Sessions
Joshua Schnell, Ph.D.
Director, Analytics
Discovery Logic – Thomson Reuters
Rockville, Maryland
Sandeep Patel, Ph.D.
Scientific Analyst
Discovery Logic – Thomson Reuters
Rockville, Maryland
Erica K. Husser, Ph.D.
Senior Communications Analyst
Ripple Effect Communications, Inc.
Amy Bielski
CEO and President
Ripple Effect Communications, Inc.
Lada Krilov
Senior Science Writer
NOVA Research Company
Bethesda, Maryland
Warren Jones, Ph.D.
Chief, Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry Branch
Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry, NIGMS
Steffan Maas, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology, NIGMS
Steve Nothwehr
Scientific Review Officer
Center for Scientific Review, NIH
Michael Sakalian, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics, NIGMS