Leadership
COUNCIL
President
Griffin, Courtney T.
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
President-elect
Hughes, Christopher C.
University of California, Irvine
Past President
Aikawa, Masanori
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Secretary-Treasurer
Muller, Bill A.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Councilors
Boscolo, Elisa
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Glading, Angela J.
University of Rochester
Gomez, Delphine
University of Pittsburgh
Greif, Daniel M.
Yale University School of Medicine
Shapiro, Linda H.
University of Connecticut Health Center
St. Hilaire, Cynthia
University of Pittsburgh
Education Committee
Chair: Kishore Wary
University of Illinois at Chicago
Committee Members:
Redhouane Aherrahrou
University of Virginia
Sophie Astrof
Rutgers University
Neha H. Ahuja
UT-Southwestern
Diane Darland
University of North Dakota
Vinicio de Jesus Perez
Stanford University
Carmen Halabi
Washington University in St. Louis
William Hughes
Medical College of Wisconsin
Melanie Jannaway
University of South Florida
Patty Lee
Duke University
Corina Marziano
University of Virginia
Joshua Scallan
University of South Florida
Amber N. Stratman
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Lisandra Vila Ellis
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ke Yaun
Boston Children's Hospital
Communications Committee
Chair: Marie Billaud
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Committee Members:
Angela Glading
University of Rochester
Jeff Hsu
University of California, Los Angeles
William R. Huckle
Virginia Tech
Kim, Juyong B.
Stanford University
Jan Kitajewski
University of Illinois at Chicago
Sara Nunes Vasconcelos
University Health Network, Toronto
Christiana Ruhrberg
University College London
Somanath PR Shenoy
University of Georgia
Md Sanaullah Sajib
Texas Tech University Health Science Center
Radu Stan
Dartmouth University
Hao Yin
Robart's Research Institute, Western University
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
Chair: Mahdi Garelnabi
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Committee Members:
Masanori Aikwawa
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Elena Aikawa
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Mitzy Cowdin
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Yun Fang
University of Chicago
Princess Imoukhuede
Washington University
Grietje Molema
University Medical Center Groningen
Bandana Shrestha
Communication Partners Group, LLC
Masuko Ushio-Fukai
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Hiromi Yanagisawa
University of Tsukuba
Membership Committee
Chair: Mary Wallingford
Tufts Medical Center
Committee Members:
Christopher Carman
Harvard School of Public Health
Jaehyung Cho
Washington University School of Medicine
Magdalena B. Chrzanowska
Blood Research Instititue, Versiti
Michael T. Dellinger,
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Hasina Outtz Reed
Weill Cornell Medicine
Tirthadipa Pradhan
University Pittsburgh
Partha Roy
University of Pittsburgh
Meritorious Awards Committee
Chair: Tsutomu Kume
Northwestern University
Committee Members:
Kayla Bayless
Texas A&M Health Science Center
Michelle Bendeck
University of Toronto
Gabriele Bergers
VIB- Center for Cancer Biology and KU Leuven
Kathleen Caron
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ondine Cleaver
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Myron Cybulsky
University of Toronto
Carlos Fernández-Hernando PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
Karen Hirschi
University of Virginia
Kathleen Martin
Yale School of Medicine
Guillermo Oliver
Northwestern University
A. Wayne Orr
LSU Health - Shreveport
Arndt Siekmann
University of Pennsylvania
Craig Simmons
University of Toronto
Brant Weinstein
NICHD, NIH
Online Program Committee
Co-Chairs: Hasina Outtz Reed
Weill Cornell Medicine
and Cynthia St. Hilaire
University of Pittsburgh
Mabruka Alfaidi
LSU Health Sciences Center - Shreveport
Nicholas W. Chavkin
University of Virginia
Sarvesh Chelvanambi
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sarah Colijin
Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine
Mitzy A. Cowdin
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Rolando A Cuevas
University of Pittsburgh
Cristina Espinosa-Diez
University of Pittsburgh
Siqi Gao
University of Pittsburgh
Lisandra Vila Ellis
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Art Yurdagul
LSUHSC-Shreveport
Vascular Biology Publications Alert
Senior Editors:
Somanath PR Shenoy
University of Georgia
Radu V. Stan
Dartmouth University
Editors:
Rolf Brekken
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Susana Cavallero
University of California, Los Angeles/VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Monica Hinds
Oregon Health & Science University
Juan Melero Martin
Boston Children's Hospital
Michael May
University of Pennsylvania
Akiko Mammoto
Medical College of Wisconsin
Liudmila Romanova
Rush University Medical Center
Linda Shapiro
University of Connecticut
Kishore Wary
University of Illinois, Chicago
Newsletter and NewsBEAT
Editor: William R. Huckle
Virginia Tech
Representatives are members who have agreed to act as ambassadors for NAVBO at their home institutions. If you need information about NAVBO or upcoming NAVBO programs, feel free to contact them or the NAVBO office (bernadette@navbo.org).
NAVBO is represented by our members at the following institutions:
Canada
Janos G. Filep, M.D.
Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital,
University of Montreal, PQ
Michelle P. Bendeck, Ph.D.
Unversity of Toronto,
Toronto, ON
Gediminas Cepinskas, D.V.M./Ph.D.
Lawson Health Research Institute
London, ON
Xi-Long Zheng, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB
Maria Febbraio, Ph.D., FAHA
University of Alberta, AB
Germany
Ralf H. Adams, PhD
Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster
Hellmut G. Augustin, Ph.D., DVM
University of Heidelberg and German Cancer Research Center
United Kingdom
Christiana Ruhrberg, Ph.D.
University College London
London
Anna M. Randi, M.D., Ph.D.
Imperial College London
London
United States (zip code order)
Joyce Bischoff, Ph.D.
Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
David Milstone, M.D., Ph.D.
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
Richard Pierce, M.D.
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Harold A.Singer, Ph.D.
Albany Medical College
Albany, NY
Kristopher Maier, Ph.D.
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY
Angela J. Glading, Ph.D.
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
Beth L. Roman, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Alisa Morss Clyne, Ph.D.
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
Mark L. Kahn, M.D.
Univ of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Gary K. Owens, Ph.D.
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville,VA
William R. Huckle, M.S., Ph.D.
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
David A. Tulis, Ph.D.
FAHA, East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
Luke P. Brewster, M.D., Ph.D.
Emory Clinic
Decatur, GA
Lianchun Wang, MD
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
Walter Murfee, Ph.D.
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Brenda J. Lilly, Ph.D.
Nationwide Children's Research Institute
Columbus, OH
Anand Ramamurthi, Ph.D.
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Elisa Boscolo, Ph.D.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati, OH
Tsutomu Kume, Ph.D.
Northwestern University School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Bo Liu, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin Medical School
Madison, WI
Diane Darland, Ph.D.
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND
Courtney Griffin, Ph.D.
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Oklahoma City, OK
Ondine B. Cleaver, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Kayla Bayless, Ph.D.
Texas A&M Health Science Center
College Station, TX
Rebecca Stockton, Ph.D.
University of California
San Diego, CA
Kristina I. Bostrom, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California
Los Angeles, CA
Rama Natarajan, Ph.D.
Beckman Res Institute of City of Hope
Duarte, CA
Christopher C. Hughes, Ph.D.
University of California
Irvine, CA
Rong Wang, Ph.D.
University of California
San Francisco, CA
Mei Y. Speer, Ph.D.
Univerity of Washington
Seattle, WA
NAVBO Scientific Advisory Board
Kari Alitalo, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Professor
Molecular/Cancer Biology Lab
Biomedicum Inst/Univ Helsinki
Laura E Benjamin, PhD
New York, NY 10014 United States
Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior VP for Health Sciences
CEO
University of Rochester Medical Center
David Cheresh, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Univ of California, San Diego
Moores Cancer Center
Paul DiCorleto, Ph.D.
Harold Dvorak, MD
Mallinckrodt Distinguished Prof
Department of Pathology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Napoleone Ferrara, M.D.
Distinguished Professor
Department of Pathology
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
Mary Gerritsen, Ph.D.
Principal, Gerritsen Consulting
San Mateo, CA
Michael A. Gimbrone Jr., MD
Elsie T. Friedman Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Excellence in Vascular Biology
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Mark H. Ginsberg, M.D.
Professor, Dept. of Medicine
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
Jordan S. Pober, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Dept of Immunobiology
Yale Univ Sch of Med
Janet Rossant, Ph.D.
Chief of Research, Senior Scientist
Dept of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Hospital for Sick Children
J. Anthony Ware, M.D.
Vice President LRL Vice Pres - Diabetes, Cardio and Acute Care
Eli Lilly and Company
Josiah Wilcox, Ph.D.
VP and Resident Scholar
Science & Technology
Medtronic CardioVascular
Samuel D. Wright, Ph.D.
Global Strategic Director
CSL Limited