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, President and Founder,
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.

Mr. Steven C. Mayer (Treasurer)
Retired EVP & CFO, Human Genome Sciences;
Retired Founder & CEO, CoGenesys, Inc.

Paul M. Montrone, Ph.D.
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.
President & CEO, Voyager Therapeutics, Inc.

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 DIRECTIONS

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

Elizabeth S. Johns
Executive Assistant

Kathy Peterson
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

Jolie Mak
Events Manager

Jasmin Miles, C.M.P.
Senior Events Coordinator

Andrea Hickman
Events Coordinator

Janelle Lewis
Events Coordinator

Sarah Kay
Events Assistant

DEVELOPMENT

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

Renée Bullion, M.P.A.
Development Officer

Meredith Donnelly
Development Officer

Emily Acland
Development Officer

Jillian Bante
Development Assistant

William Tolentino
Development Systems Administrator

ADVANCEMENT

Melissa Cather, C.F.R.E.
Director of Advancement

Rob Drucker, J.D.
Partnership Development Officer

Laren Friedman, M.F.A.
Writer/Researcher

SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION

Stephanie James, Ph.D.
Director of Science

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

Gail Levine, M.A., C.R.C.C.
Scientific Program Manager, CTC-VIMC

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

Susan Wiener, M.A.
Senior Project Manager, GCGH

Anna Sambor, M.S.
Program Manager

Tiffany Francis
Grants and Administrative Assistant

RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS

David Wholley, M.Phil.
Director of Research Partnerships

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

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

Steve Hoffmann, M.S.
Scientific Program Manager, Inflammation
and Immunity

Rosa Canet-Aviles, Ph.D.
Scientific Program Manager, Neuroscience

Paula Eason, Ph.D.
Scientific Program Manager, Cancer

Dorothy Jones-Davis, Ph.D.
Scientific Project Manager

Sanya Whitaker, Ph.D., P.M.P.
Scientific Project Manager

Jessica Ratay, M.S.
Clinical Project Manager

Cheryl Melencio
Executive Assistant

Jessica Jones
Administrative Assistant

COMMUNICATIONS

Richard Folkers
Director of Communications

Kai Yee
Digital Administrator

INTERNS

Emma Bradford

Amber Langway

Anisa Sanghrajka