Damon Runyon Fellowship Award
Selection Committee
CHAIR
Ken H. Cadwell, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
VICE CHAIR
Sreekanth Chalasani, PhD
Professor
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla, California
J. Javier Bravo-Cordero, PhD
Associate Professor
Division of Hematology and Oncology Department of Medicine
The Tisch Cancer Institute
Microscopy CORE
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York
Emily R. Derbyshire, PhD
Eads Family Professor
Professor of Chemistry
Program in Cell and Molecular Biology
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Juliana Idoyaga, PhD
Chancellor’s Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Molecular Biology
University of California, San Diego
Schools of Medicine and Biological Sciences
La Jolla, California
Daniel F. Jarosz, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Systems Biology
Department of Developmental Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Stanford, California
Katrin Karbstein, PhD
Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and Professor of Biochemistry
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Basic Sciences
Co-leader of Cancer Cell Biology Program
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Nashville, Tennessee
Raymond E. Moellering, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Joshua C. Munger, PhD
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Rochester Medical Center
School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, New York
Arun Radhakrishnan, PhD
Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Carla Rothlin, PhD
Professor
Andersen Chair in Immunology
Director, Center for Immunology
Co-Leader of Masonic Cancer Center Immunology Program
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Agnel Sfeir, PhD
Paine Webber Chair in Cancer Genetics
Member, Molecular Biology Program
Sloan Kettering Institute
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Gerald S. Shadel, PhD
Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Audrey Geisel Chair in Biomedical Science
Co-Director, Salk Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research
Director, San Diego-Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla, California
David R. Sherwood, PhD
Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Professor and Professor of Biology
Co-Director Regeneration Next Initiative
Department of Biology
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Michael J. Smanski, PhD
McKnight Land Grant Professor
Associate Head of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Biotechnology Institute
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota