Steering Committee
Richard Kennedy, PhD - Chair
Associate Dean for Research, and the Vice President of the Beaumont Research Institute
Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
Kenira Thompson, PhD - Chair-Elect
Dean of Research & President of the Ponce Research Institute
Ponce Health Sciences University School of Medicine
Stephen P. Sugrue, PhD - Immediate Past Chair
Senior Associate Dean for Research Affairs
University of Florida College of Medicine
Members at Large
Etty (Tika) Benveniste, PhD
Senior Associate Dean for Research Administration
Professor at Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Curt I. Civin, MD
Associate Dean for Research
Director, Center for Stem Cell
Biology & Regenerative Medicine
University of Maryland - School of Medicine
Corey C. Ford, MD, PhD
Sr. Associate Dean for Research
Professor of Neurology
UNM Health Sciences Center
University of New Mexico
Howard Fox, MD, PhD
Senior Associate Dean of Research
Development Professor
Executive Vice Chair, Pharmacology
University of Nebraska College of Medicine
Dushyantha T. Jayaweera, MD
Senior Associate Dean for Research
Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
Emma Meagher, MD
Professor, Medicine and Pharmacology
Vice Dean & Chief Clinical Research Officer
Senior Assoc. Vice Provost Human Research
Assoc. Dean Master’s and Cert Programs
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Reginald Miller, DVM
Dean for Research Operations & Infrastructure
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Lee Nadler, MD
Dean for Clinical & Translational Research
Harvard Medical School
Ann Nattinger, MD, MPH
Associate Provost for Research
Senior Associate Dean for Research, School of Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Lady Riders Prof. of Breast Cancer Research
Medical College of Wisconsin
Antony Rosen, MBChB, MD
Vice Dean for ResearchÂ
Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Sheila Vrana, PhD
Associate Dean for Research
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Theodore (Ted) Wun, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine
Chief- Division of Hematology and Oncology
Associate Dean for Research
UC Davis School of Medicine
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA - COD Liaison
Vice President for Medical Affairs
Dean, School of Medicine
John Z. & Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished ProfessorÂ
University of Maryland
Linda Hyman, PhD - GREAT Liaison
Associate Provost, Graduate Medical Sciences Associate Dean for Graduate StudiesÂ
Boston University School of Medicine
Gabriela K. Popescu, PhD - CFAS Liaison
Associate Professor Biochemistry; Anesthesiology; Neuroscience
Director of Graduate Affairs, Department of Biochemistry
UB Senator, Faculty Senate Executive Board|
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo
Lou Ann S. Brown, PhD - GREAT Group Postdoctorate Leaders Section Liaison
Assistant Dean, Director of the Office of Postdoctoral EducationÂ
Emory University School of Medicine
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