Advisory Board
The Institute's leadership is guided by an external advisory board—comprising academic, scientific, and business leaders—that meets once a year in Ann Arbor.
- Pedro Cuatrecasas, MD (Co-Chair) - Retired President, Parke Davis/Warner Lambert Pharmaceutical Research Division, San Diego
- Peter Agre, MD - Vice-Chancellor for Science and Technology, Duke University; 2003 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Ronnie Cresswell, DSc - Retired Senior Vice President, Warner Lambert Co.; Retired Chairman, Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research, Ann Arbor
- Jennifer A Doudna, PhD - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
- Helen Hobbs, MD - Director, Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
- C. Ronald Kahn, MD - Director, Joslin Diabetes Center; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Laura Kiessling, PhD - Professor of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Jeffrey Leiden, MD, PhD - Partner, Clarus Ventures, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Frank McCormick, MD - Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center & Cancer Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco
- Paul M. Meister (Co-Chair) - President, Latona Associates, Hampton, New Hampshire
- Stuart Orkin, MD - Chair, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts; David G. Nathan Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
- Craig Parker - Former Managing Director and former Head of Biotechnology Equity Research, Lehman Brothers
- Randy W. Schekman, PhD - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
- Edward Schulak - Chairman, Metro International Trade Services LLC, Founder, LiteLaser LLC
- David Walt, PhD - Robinson Professor of Chemistry, Tufts University
- Tadataka Yamada, MD - President, Global Health Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
