Organization


 

 
 
 
The corporation elects a Board of Trustees of not more than eleven members at its annual meeting. Full power in the management and control of the affairs of the corporation is vested in this Board, which holds two stated meetings a year. An Executive Committee acts for the Board in the intervals between meetings.
 
The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program is the responsibility of a Scientific Advisory Committee and is under its continual review and evaluation. The day-to-day administration of the fellowship program is the responsibility of the Administrative Director, who reports to the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee.
 
The Officers and Board of Trustees of the Foundation are:

Averil Payson Meyer
President
Lisa A. Steiner, M.D.
Vice President
Stephen C. Harrison,Ph.D.
Vice President
W. Perry Welch
Treasurer
Jerome Gross, M.D.
 
Payne W. Middleton
 
Thomas P. Sakmar, M.D.
 
Stephen C. Sherrill
 
Christopher T.Walsh, Ph.D.
 

The members of the Scientific Advisory Committee are:

Stephen C. Harrison, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Chairman
Thomas M. Jessell, Ph.D.
Columbia University
 
Daniel Kahne, Ph.D.
Harvard University
 
Barbara J. Meyer, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
 
Erin K. O'Shea, Ph.D..
Harvard University
 
Matthew D. Scharff, M.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
 
Julie A. Theriot, Ph.D.
Stanford University Medical School
 
S. Lawrence Zipursky,Ph.D.
University of California,
Los Angeles
 

 

The Administrative Director of the Foundation is

Robert Weinberger

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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