Selection Committee

Damon Runyon Fellowship Award

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
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar
Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology
Scripps Research
Jupiter, Florida

 

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
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar
Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Pharmacology
Yale Cancer Center
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut

 

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