Selection Committee

Damon Runyon Fellowship Award

CHAIR

Richard M. White, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Nuffield Department of Medicine
Ludwig Cancer Research
University of Oxford
Oxford, England

VICE CHAIR

Kathryn A. O'Donnell, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

David Bilder, PhD
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Ken H. Cadwell, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Xinwei Cao, PhD
Associate Member
Developmental Neurobiology Department
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee
Sreekanth Chalasani, PhD
Associate Professor
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla, California
Jason M. Crawford, PhD
Maxine F. Singer ’57 PhD Associate Professor
Departments of Chemistry and Microbial Pathogenesis
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Gianna E. Hammer, PhD
Associate Professor   
Department of Pathology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Daniel F. Jarosz, PhD
Associate Professor   
Department of Chemical and Systems Biology 
Department of Developmental Biology
Member, Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California
Katrin Karbstein, PhD
Professor 
Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
Jupiter, Florida
Martin McMahon, PhD
Professor, Department of Dermatology
Huntsman Cancer Institute
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, Utah
Raymond E. Moellering, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Alfonso Mondragón, PhD
Ethel and John Lindgren Professor
Director of the Structural Biology Facility
Department of Molecular Biosciences
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
Joshua C. Munger, PhD
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of Rochester Medical Center
School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, New York
Akinyemi I. Ojesina, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Arun Radhakrishnan, PhD 
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Rajat Rohatgi, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine
Professor of Biochemistry
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California
Carla Rothlin, PhD
Co-director Rothlin-Ghosh Laboratory
Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Immunobiology and Pharmacology
HHMI Faculty Scholar
Co-leader Cancer Immunology, Yale Cancer Center
Director of Graduate Studies in Immunology
Yale School of Medicine
The Anlyan Center
New Haven, Connecticut
Jared Rutter, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor of Biochemistry
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, Utah
Agnel Sfeir, PhD
Member, Molecular Biology Program
Sloan Kettering Institute
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York 
David R. Sherwood, PhD
Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Professor and Associate Chair of Biology
Co-Director Regeneration Next Initiative
Department of Biology
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina