Geoffrey Aguirre, MD, PhD (Co-Chair)
Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology
University of Pennsylvania Medical School
BWF Career Awardee in the Biomedical Sciences – 2004

Susanne Ahmari, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Translational OCD Laboratory
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh
BWF Career Awardee for Medical Scientists – 2013

Mary Armanios, MD
Professor of Oncology, Genetic Medicine and Pathology
Director, Telomere Center at Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Chester W. Brown, MD, PhD
St. Jude Chair of Excellence in Genetics
Professor of Genetics
Department of Pediatrics
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
BWF Career Awardee in the Biomedical Sciences – 2000

Kathleen H. Burns, MD, PhD
Professor & Department Chair of Pathology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
BWF Career Awardee for Medical Scientists – 2008

Trevor Burt, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
Duke University School of Medicine

Jeanine D'Armiento, MD, PhD
Director of the Center for Molecular Pulmonary Disease in Anesthesiology and Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Director, Center for LAM and Rare Lung Disease
Professor of Medicine in Anesthesiology
Columbia University
BWF Career Awardee in the Biomedical Sciences – 1996

Anna Huttenlocher, MD
Professor of Medical Microbiology & Immunology and Pediatrics
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Nicola Jones, MD, PhD
Director, Integrated Physician Scientist Training Program
Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto

Phyllis Kanki, DVM, ScD
Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences
Department of Immunology & Infectious Disease
Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health
Harvard University

Annet Kirabo, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Vanderbilt University

Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD
Professor and W. Paul Bowers Research Chair
Department of Pediatrics and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Emory University

Heather C. Mefford, MD, PhD (Co-Chair)
Full Member of the Center for Pediatric Neurological Disease Research
Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
BWF Career Awardee for Medical Scientists – 2008

Markus Müschen, MD, PhD
Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Hematology
Professor of Immunobiology
Director, Center of Molecular and Cellular Oncology
Yale University

Maureen Su, MD
Morrison Family Endowed Chair
Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics
Department of Pediatrics (Endocrinology)
University of California Los Angeles

Alik Widge, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
University of Minnesota

Weiping Zou, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology, Immunology, Biology, and Surgery
Director, Center of Excellence for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy
University of Michigan

Additional members may be added to the committee.