Board of Directors and Advisory Boards

Leaders in the Science of Human Tissue Collection

Leaders in the Science of Collecting Human Tissues and Organs Over 60 scientists participate on NDRI's Advisory Committees. NDRI's Board of Directors consists of nationally known scientists.

NDRI BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chairman

• Hal E. Broxmeyer, Ph.D.
  Mary Margaret Walther Professor of Medicine
  Walther Oncology Center
  Indiana University School of Medicine
  Indianapolis, IN

Members

• Lee Ducat
  President and Founder
  National Disease Research Interchange
  Philadelphia, PA
• David M. Bodine, Ph.D.
  Chief, Immunological Genetics Section
  National Human Genome Research Institute
  National Institutes of Health
  Bethesda, MD
• Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D.
  Director
  Center for Bioethics
  University of Pennsylvania Health System
  Philadelphia, PA
• D. Walter Cohen, D.D.S.
  Chancellor Emeritus
  Drexel University College of Medicine
  Philadelphia, PA
• Peter Crino, M.D., Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Neurology
  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  Philadelphia, PA
• Meenhard Herlyn, D.V.M, D.Sc.
  Professor and Program Leader
  Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program
  The Wistar Institute
  Philadelphia, PA
• Ali Naji, M.D., Ph.D.
  Professor of Surgery
  Department of Surgery
  Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, PA
• James Shapiro, M.D., PhD., FRCS, FRCSC, D.Sc.
  Director, Clinical Islet Transplant Program
  Clinical Research Chair in Transplantation
  (CIHR-Wyeth)
  University of Alberta, Edmonton
  Alberta, Canada
  
  

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NDRI FEASIBILITY REVIEW COMMITTEE

Members

• Seyoum Ayehunie, Ph.D.
  Senior Scientist
  MatTek Corporation
  Ashland, MA
• Richard Bone, Ph.D.
  Professor of Physics
  Department of Physical Science
  Florida International University
  Miami, FL
• Rosemarie Booze, Ph.D.
  Bicentennial Chair Professor
  University of South Carolina
  Columbia, SC
• Lois Jovanovic, M.D.
  Senior Scientist
  Sansum Medical Research Foundation
  Santa Barbara, CA
• Martin Lotz, M.D.
  Professor
  The Scripps Research Institute
  La Jolla, CA
• Allen C. Myers, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor of Medicine
  The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Baltimore, MD
• Reynold Panettieri, Jr., M.D.
  Professor
  University of Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia PA
• David Pearce, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
  University of Rochester
  Rochester, NY
• Scott Randell, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
  The University of North Carolina
  Chapel Hill, NC
• Neil A. Sharkey, Ph.D.
  Professor & Director of Research
  Penn State University
  University Park, PA
• Kathleen Smith, Ph.D.
  DNAX-Schering-Plough
  Palo Alto CA
• Marco A. Zarbin, M.D., Ph.D.
  Professor & Chair
  The Institute of Ophthalmology & Visual Science
  New Jersey Medical School
  Newark, NJ

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HBDI STEERING COMMITTEES DIABETES GENETIC RESOURCE

Chairman

• Jin Xiong She, Ph.D.
  Professor and Eminent Scholar
  In Genomic Medicine
  Director – Center for Biotechnology
  Medical College of Georgia
  Augusta, GA

Members

• Patrick Concannon Ph.D.
  Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
  University of Virginia
  Charlottesville, VA
• George Eisenbarth, M.D., Ph.D.
  Executive Director
  Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes
  Denver, CO
• Henry A. Erlich, Ph.D.
  Director, Department of Human Genetics
  Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
  Alameda, CA
• Denise Faustman, M.D., Ph.D.
  Director of Immunology Lab
  Massachusetts General Hospital
  Charlestown, MA
• Ake Lernmark, Ph.D.
  Professor of Medicine
  Department of Medicine
  University of Washington
  Seattle, WA
• Noel K. Maclaren, M.D.
  Director, Research Institute for Children
  Children’s Hospital
  New Orleans, LA
• M. Alan Permutt, M.D.
  Professor of Medicine
  Metabolism Division
  Washington University School of Medicine
  St. Louis, MO
• Alberto Pugliesi, M.D.
  Research Associate Professor
  Head, Immunogenetics Program
  Diabetes Research Institute
  Universtiy of Miami
  Miami, FL
• Richard S. Spielman, Ph.D.
  Butterworth Professor of Human Genetics
  Department of Human Genetics
  University of Pennsylvania
  School of Medicine
  Philadelphia, PA
• Lee Ducat
  President and Founder
  Human Biological Data Interchange
  Philadelphia, PA

Advisors

• Neil J. Risch, Ph.D.
  Professor of Human Genetics
  Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
  University of California, San Francisco
  San Francisco, CA
• John Todd, Ph.D.
  Professor, Department of Medical Genetics
  Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
  Wellcome Trust/MRC Building
  Addenbrooke’s Hospital
  Cambridge, UK

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THYROID DISEASE GENETIC RESEARCH

Chairman

• Terry Davies, M.D.
  Professor, Department of Medicine
  Mount Sinai Medical Center
  Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
  New York, NY

Members

• Rebecca Bahn, M.D.
  Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School
  Department of Internal Medicine
  Mayo Clinic
  Rochester, MN
• Giuseppe Barbesino, M.D.
  Fellow in Medicine
  Mount Sinai Medical Center
  Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
  New York, NY
• James Fagin, M.D.
  Director, Division of Endocrinology
  University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
  Cincinnati, OH
• Steven Gough, M.D.
  Senior Lecturer in Medicine
  University of Birmingham and Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
  Birmingham, UK
• David Greenberg, Ph.D.
  Director, Division of Statistical Genetics
  Columbia Genome Center
  Columbia University
  New York, NY
• Noel Maclaren, M.D.
  Director, the Research Institute for Children
  Children’s Hospital of New Orleans
  New Orleans, LA
• Noel Rose, M.D., Ph.D.
  Department Chairman, School of Medicine
  JHU School of Hygiene and Public Health
  Dept. of Molecular, Microbiology & Immunology
  Baltimore, MD
• Steven Sherman, M.D.
  Assistant Professor of Medicine
  MD Anderson Cancer Center
  Houston, TX
• Yaron Tomer, M.D.
  Assistant Professor of Medicine
  Mount Sinai Medical Center
  Division of Endrocrinology and Metabolism
  New York, NY
• Lee Ducat
  President and Founder
  National Disease Research Interchange
  Philadelphia, PA

Advisors

• Paul Gelep
  Associate Director of Therapeutics
  Genzyme Corporation
  Boston, MA
• Christopher Viele
  President
  Kronus Corporation
  San Clemente, CA

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RARE DISEASE STEERING COMMITTEE

Chairman

• Peter W. Stacpoole, Ph.D., M.D.
  Professor of Medicine,
  Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
  Director, Clinical Research Center
  University of Florida
  Gainesville, FL

Members

• John D. Brunzell, M.D.
  Professor of Medicine
  University of Washington School of Medicine
  Seattle, WA
• Gregory Enns, M.D.
  Director, Biochemical Genetics Program
  Department of Pediatrics
  Stanford University
• Stanford, CA
• William A. Gahl, M.D.
  Clinical Director
  National Human Genome Research Institute
  National Institutes of Health
• Bethesda, MD
• L. Lyndon Key Jr., M.D.
  Professor & Chair
  Department of Pediatrics
  Medical University of South Carolina
  Charleston, SC
  Richard T. Moxley III, M.D.
  Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
  Associate Chair of Neurology
  Director, Neuromuscular Disease Center
  University of Rochester
  Rochester, NY
• Diane Wara, M.D.
  Program Director
  Pediatric General Clinical Research Center
  University of California, San Francisco
• San Francisco, CA

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STEM CELL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Chairman

• Hal E. Broxmeyer, Ph.D.
  Mary Margaret Walther Professor of Medicine
  Walther Oncology Center
  Indiana University School of Medicine
  Indianapolis, IN

Members

• David M. Bodine, Ph.D.
  Chief, Immunological Genetics Section
  National Human Genome Research Institute
  National Institute of Health
  Bethesda, MD
• Michael Long, Ph.D.
  Professor of Pediatrics
  University of Michigan
  Ann Arbor, MI

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ISLET CELL ISOLATION AND TRANSPLANT ADVISORY BOARD

Members

• Richard Furlanetto, M.D., Ph.D.
  Scientific Director
  Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
  New York, NY
• Jonathan Lakey, Ph.D.
  Clinical Islet Transplant Laboratory
  Surgical-Medical Research Institute
  Edmonton, Alberta Canada
• Camilo Ricordi, M.D.
  Scientific Director
  Diabetes Research Institute
  University of Miami School of Medicine
  Miami, FL
  Paul Robertson, M.D.
  Chief Executive Officer
  Pacific Northwest Research Institute
  Seattle, WA
• James Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.C.
  Director, Clinical Islet Transplant Program
  Wyeth-Ayerst Canada-CIHR, Clinical Research
  Chair in Transportation
  Roberts Center
  Edmonton, Canada
• Lee Ducat
  President and Founder
  National Disease Research Interchange
  Philadelphia, PA

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Tissue Array Committee

Members

• Paul S. Meltzer, M.D., Ph.D.
  Senior Investigator & Chief, Genetics Branch,
  Center for Cancer Research
  The National Human Genome Research Institute
  National Institutes of Health
  Bethesda, MD
• Galen Hostetter, M.D.
  Associate Investigator
  Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)
  Phoenix, AZ
• Dan Rohwer-Nutter, Ph.D.
  CEO
  Beecher Instruments, Inc
  Sun Prairie, WI
• David M. Bodine, Ph.D.
  Head, Hematopoiesis Section
  National Human Genome Research Institute
  National Institutes of Health
  Bethesda, MD
• Hal Broxmeyer, Ph.D.
  Chairman & Mary Margaret Walther Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
  Walther Oncology Center
  Indiana University School of Medicine
  Indianapolis, IN

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