Board of Directors & Our Staff

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Board of Directors

Charles A. Sanders, M.D. (Chairman)
Retired Chairman and CEO, Glaxo, Inc.

Mrs. William McCormick Blair, Jr. (Secretary)
Director Emeritus, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation

Kathy Bloomgarden, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer, Ruder Finn, Inc.

Mrs. William (Buffy) N. Cafritz
Trustee, The John F. Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts

Mr. James H. Donovan
Partner, Goldman Sachs & Company;
Adjunct Professor, University of Virginia

Joseph Feczko, M.D.
Retired Senior Vice President &
Chief Medical Officer, Pfizer Inc.

Maria C. Freire, Ph.D.
President and Executive Director,
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health

Mr. Miles Gilburne
Managing Member, ZG Ventures, LLC

Paul L. Herrling, Ph.D.
Chairman, Novartis Institute
for Tropical Disease

Ronald L. Krall, M.D.
Former Senior Vice-President and
Chief Medical Officer, GlaxoSmithKline

Ms. Sherry Lansing
Chief Executive Officer,
The Sherry Lansing Foundation

Freda C. Lewis-Hall, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Senior Vice President,
Pfizer Inc.

Edison T. Liu, M.D., Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer,
The Jackson Laboratory

Ms. Ann Lurie
Lurie Holdings, Inc.,
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Foundation

Mr. Joel S. Marcus
Chairman, CEO and Founder,
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.

Mr. Steven C. Mayer
Former CEO and Co-Founder,
CoGenesys, Inc.

Paul M. Montrone, Ph.D. (Treasurer)
Chairman, Perspecta Trust

Martin J. Murphy, Jr., Ph.D.
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer,
AlphaMed Consulting, Inc.

Garry A. Neil, M.D.
Global Head R&D, Medgenics, Inc.

Steven M. Paul, M.D.
Director, Helen and Robert Appel
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute,
Weill Cornell Medical College

The Honorable John Edward Porter
(Vice Chairman for Policy)
Hogan Lovells US, LLP

Mrs. Jillian Sackler, D.B.E.
President and CEO, AMS Foundation
for the Arts, Sciences and Humanities

Mrs. Lily Safra
Chairwoman, The Edmond J. Safra
Philanthropic Foundation

Ellen V. Sigal, Ph.D.
Chairperson, Friends of Cancer Research

Solomon H. Snyder, M. D.
(Vice Chairman for Science)
Distinguished Service Professor of Neuroscience,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Ms. Nina K. Solarz
Former Executive Director of Peace Links
and the Fund for Peace

Samuel O. Thier, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy,
Emeritus, Harvard Medical School,
Massachusetts General Hospital

Anne Wojcicki
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder,
23andMe

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Luther W. Brady, M.D.
Distinguished University Professor,
Drexel University College of Medicine

Patrick C. Walsh, M.D.
University Distinguished Service
Professor of Urology, Johns Hopkins
Medical Institutions

DIRECTOR EMERITUS

Paul Berg, Ph.D.
Cahill Professor in Biochemistry (Emeritus),
Stanford University School of Medicine

EX-OFFICIO

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, National Institutes of Health

Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D.
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration

Our Staff

President’s Office

Maria C. Freire, Ph.D.
President and Executive Director

Ann Ashby, M.B.A.
Deputy Executive Director

Andrea Baruchin, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor to the President

Erika Tarver
Senior Project Manager

Felicia Gray
Executive Assistant

Liz Johns
Executive Assistant

Kathy Guire
Operations Officer

Finance

Julie Tune, C.P.A., C.F.E.
Chief Financial Officer

Eva Coyne, C.P.A.
Controller

Cathy Martin, C.P.A.
Senior Accountant

Noemi B. Rodriguez
Staff Accountant

Peggy J. Gerlacher
Operations Associate

Events and Marketing

Laura Payne
Director

Jolie Mak
Events Manager

Jasmin Miles
Senior Events Coordinator

Andrea Hickman
Events Coordinator

Kai Yee
Digital Administrator

Development

Julie Wolf-Rodda, M.A.
Director of Development

Renee Bullion, M.P.A.
Partnership Development Officer

Elizabeth Dobbins
Partnership Development Officer

Rob Drucker, J.D., M.S.
Partnership Development Officer

Caite Gilmore
Partnership Development Officer

Jennifer Ilekis, M.P.A.
Partnership Development Officer

Paris L.A. Moore
Partnership Development Officer

Asante Shakuur
Partnership Development Officer

Will Tolentino
Development Systems Administrator

Anne Bradfield
Development Assistant

Will Whitaker
Development Intern

Science Administration

Stephanie James, Ph.D.
Director of Science and Director,
Grand Challenges in Global Health

Michael Gottlieb, Ph.D.
Deputy Director of Science

Dennis Lang, Ph.D.
Senior Program Coordinator, MAL-ED
(Contractor)

Karen Tountas, Ph.D.
Scientific Program Manager, MAL-ED

Susan Powell, M.T.S.
Senior Grants Manager

Susan Wiener, M.A.
Senior Project Manager

Gail Levine, M.A., C.R.C.C.
Scientific Program Manager

Anna Sambor, M.S.
Program Manager

Tiffany Francis
Executive Assistant

Biomarkers Consortium

David Wholley, M.S.
Director

Maria Vassileva, Ph.D.
Senior Scientific Program Manager,
Metabolic Disorders

Sonia Pearson-White, Ph.D.
Scientific Program Manager, Cancer

Judy Siuciak, Ph.D.
Scientific Program Manager, Neuroscience

Steven C. Hoffmann
Scientific Program Manager,
Inflammation and Immunity

Jessica Ratay, M.S.
Clinical Project Manager

Cheryl Melencio
Executive Assistant