Jack Antel, M.D.
Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
McGill University

Leslie J. Berg, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Complex Disease Genomics
McKusick - Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Tamara L. Doering, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology
Washington University School of Medicine
BWF Career Awardee in the Biomedical Sciences – 1996

H. Shelton Earp, III, M.D.
Professor and Director, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Kelsey C. Martin, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair and Professor
Dept. of Biological and Chemistry and Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
University of California-Los Angeles
BWF Career Awardee in the Biomedical Sciences – 1997 

Martin M. Matzuk, M.D., Ph.D.
Stuart A. Wallace Chair and Professor
Dept. of Pathology and Molecular & Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine

Elizabeth McNally, M.D., Ph.D. (Co-Chair)
Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics
University of Chicago
BWF Clinical Scientist Awardee in Translational Research - 2001

Louis J. Muglia, M.D., Ph.D.
Co-Director, Perinatal Institute, Division of Neonatology
University of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Director, Center for Preterm Birth Research
Professor, UC Dept. of Pediatrics
BWF Career Awardee in the Biomedical Sciences – 1995

Jeffrey A. Whitsett, M.D. (Co-Chair)
Chief, Section of Neonatology, Perinatal and Pulmonary Biology
University of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

John York, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Duke University Medical Center
BWF Career Awardee in the Biomedical Sciences – 1995

Additional members may be added to the committee.