The Board of Directors includes some of the country’s most distinguished biomedical research scientists:

  • Keith R. Yamamoto (Chair)
    University of California, San Francisco
    Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
    600 16th St/ Genentech Hall S572D
    San Francisco, CA 94143-2280
    T – (415) 476-8445
    yamamoto@cmp.ucsf.edu
  • Sue Biggins (at-large)
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    1100 Fairview Ave. N
    Seattle, WA 98109
    sbiggins@fredhutch.org
  • Rebecca Burdine (GSA)
    Princeton University
    Department of Molecular Biology
    119 Lewis Thomas Laboratory
    Washington Road
    Princeton, NJ 08544-1014
    rburdine@princeton.edu
  • Martin Chalfie (at-large)
    Columbia University
    Biological Sciences
    1012 Fairchild Center, M.C. 2446
    New York, N.Y. 10027
    mc21@columbia.edu
  • Hollis Cline (SFN)
    The Scripps Research Institute
    Department of Neuroscience
    La Jolla, CA 92037
    cline@scripps.edu
  • Daniel Colon-Ramos (at-large)
    Yale School of Medicine
    Sterling Hall of Medicine, B-Wing
    333 Cedar Street, Ste Room 163
    New Haven, CT, 06510
    daniel.colon-ramos@yale.edu
  • Vaughn Cooper, Ph.D. (ASM)
    Microbiology and Molecular Genetics | Director,
    Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine
    University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
    425 Bridgeside Point II, 450 Technology Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15219
    vaughn.cooper@pitt.edu
  • Nancy Jean Cox (ASHG)
    Vanderbilt Brain Institute
    7203 Medical Research Building III
    465 21st Avenue South
    Nashville, TN 37232
    nancy.j.cox@vanderbilt.edu
  • Enrique De La Cruz (at-large)
    Yale University
    Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
    PO Box 208114, 266 Whitney Avenue
    New Haven, CT, 06520-8114
    enrique.delacruz@yale.edu
  • Holly Goodson (ASCB)
    University of Notre Dame
    Department of Molecular, Cell Biology & Biophysics
    439 Stepan Chemistry Hall
    Notre Dame, IN 46556
    T – (574) 631-7744
    hgoodson@nd.edu
  • Carol Greider (at-large)
    University of California, Santa Cruz
    Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
    Sinsheimer Labs
    1156 High Street
    Santa Cruz, CA 95064
    cgreider@ucsc.edu
  • James Haber (GSA)
    Brandeis University
    Rosenstiel Center, MS 029
    PO Box 549110
    Waltham, MA 02454-9110
    Haber@brandeis.edu
  • Jo Handelsman (at-large)
    Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
    330 North Orchard Street, Room 3110
    Madison WI 53715
    jo.handelsman@wisc.edu
  • H. Robert Horvitz (at-large)
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Department of Biology, 68-425
    77 Massachusetts Avenue
    Cambridge, MA 02139-4320
    horvitz@mit.edu
  • Judith Kimble (at-large)
    Vilas Professor of Biochemistry
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
    341E Biochemistry Addition
    433 Babcock Drive
    Madison, WI 53706
    jekimble@wisc.edu
  • Connie M. Lee (ASCB)
    Associate Dean for Basic Science
    Biological Sciences Division
    The University of Chicago
    MC1114
    5841 S. Maryland Avenue, Room S-106
    Chicago, IL 60637
    cmlee@bsd.uchicago.edu
  • Richard Lifton (at-large)
    Rockefeller University
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    1230 York Avenue
    New York, NY 10065
    rickl@rockefeller.edu
  • Lori McMahon (SFN)
    Medical University of South Carolina
    Vice President for Research, Neuroscience Department
    173 Ashley Avenue Room, Suite 105
    Charleston, SC 29425
    mcmahonl@musc.edu
  • Elizabeth McNally (at-large)
    University Feinberg School of Medicine
    303 E. Superior St.
    Center for Genetic Medicine Lurie 7-123
    Chicago, IL 60611
    elizabeth.mcnally@northwestern.edu
  • Richard M. Myers (HudsonAlpha)
    HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
    601 Genome Way
    Huntsville, AL 35806
    rmyers@hudsonalpha.org
  • Thomas Pollard (at-large)
    Yale University
    Department of Molecular/Cellular/ Dev Biology
    KBT-548, P.O. Box 208103
    New Haven, CT 06520-8103
    thomas.pollard@yale.edu
  • Stacey Schultz-Cherry (ASM)
    Member, Department of Host-Microbe Interactions
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Memphis, TN 38105
    Phone: 901-595-6629
    stacey.schultz-cherry@stjude.org
  • Bodo Stern (HHMI)
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Chief Development and Strategy Officer
    4000 Jones Bridge Road
    Chevy Chase, MD 20814
    sternb@hhmi.org
  • Tania Simoncelli (CZI)
    Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
    435 Tasso St.
    Palo Alto, CA 94301
    tsimoncelli@chanzuckerberg.com
  • Shirley Tilghman (at-large)
    Princeton University
    Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
    240 Carl Icahn Lab
    Princeton, NJ 08544
    smt@princeton.edu
  • Blanton Tolbert (HHMI)
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Vice President Science Leadership and Culture
    4000 Jones Bridge Road
    Chevy Chase, MD 20814
    tolbertb@hhmi.org
  • Harold Varmus (at-large)
    Weill Cornell Medicine
    Meyer Cancer Center
    450 West End Avenue, Apt 17A
    New York City NY 10024
    Varmus@med.Cornell.edu
  • Nikhil Wagle (Genentech)
    Genentech, Inc
    1633 Grandview Dr.
    Building 33
    South San Francisco, CA 94080
    waglen@gene.com
  • Anthony Wynshaw-Boris (ASHG)
    Case Western University
    Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine
    10900 Euclid Ave.
    Cleveland, OH 44106-7288
    anthony.wynshaw-boris@case.edu
Society Representation
  • Tracey DePellegrin
    Genetics Society of America
    9650 Rockville Pike
    Bethesda, MD 20814
    T- (412) 760-5391
    Tracey.depellegrin@thegsajournals.org
  • Marty Saggese
    Society for Neuroscience
    1121 14th St. NW, Suite 1010
    Washington, DC 20005
    T – (202) 962-4000
    marty@sfn.org
  • Rebecca Alvania
    American Society for Cell Biology
    6120 Executive Blvd., Suite 750
    Rockville, MD 20852
    ralvania@ascb.org
  • Carter Wells
    HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
    601 Genome Way
    Huntsville, AL 35806
    cwells@hudsonalpha.org
  • Stefano Bertuzzi
    American Society for Microbiology
    1752 N Street, Northwest
    Washington, DC 20036
    sbertuzzi@asmusa.org
CLS Staff