Leadership
COUNCIL
President
St. Hilaire, Cynthia
University of Pittsburgh
President-elect
Gomez, Delphine
University of Pittsburgh
Past President
Orr, A. ​Wayne
LSU Health - Shreveport
Secretary-Treasurer
Muller, Bill A.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Councilors
Astrof, Sophie
Rutgers University
Billaud, Marie
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Fang, Yun
University of Chicago
Good, Miranda
Tufts University School of Medicine
Kwartler, Callie
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Wythe, Joshua
University of Virginia
Education CommitteeÂ
Chair: Ziqing Liu
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Committee Members:
D. Berfin Azizoglu
UNC Chapel Hill, School of Medicine
Pia Burboa
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Danyang Chen
Boston Children's Hospital
Mitzy Cowdin
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Rolando Cuevas
University of Pittsburgh
Wendy Duan
University of Alberta
Jason Eng
The Ohio State University Waxner Medical Center
Mallika Ghosh
University of Connecticut Health Center
Angela Glading
University of Rochester
Donny Hanjaya-Putra
University of Notre Dame
Sonia Hernandez
University of Chicago
Annegret Holm
Boston Children's Hospital
Hina Iqbal
Medical College of Wisconsin
Dan Jane-wit
Yale University School of Medicine
Minah Kim
Columbia University
Callie Kwartler
University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Qing Lin
Johns Hopkins University
Emily Meredith
Yale University
Paula Rodrigues de Barros
University of South Carolina
Matthew Scott
LSUHSC Shreveport
Yu Jung Shin
University of Washington
Josephine Tan
Amsterdam UMC
Jun Yu
Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Communications Committee
Chair: Amber Stratman
Washington University in St. Louis
Committee Members:Â
Cyrine Ben Dhaou
LSUHS Shreveport
William R. Huckle
Virginia Tech
Boa Kim
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Terren Niethamer
Yale School of Medicine
Ayla Shahid
University of Toronto
Peeyush Kumar Thankamani Pandit
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Neelima Thottappillil
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Xu Xiao
University of Kentucky
Communities Committee
Co-Chairs: Leah Greenspan
National Institutes of Health
and Laura Pillay
NIH
Committee Members:
Kyung In Baek
Emory University
Thanh Theresa Dinh
San Jose State University
Zaneta Markowska
University of Virginia
Shubh Mehta
Purdue University
Mark Renton
Virginia Tech, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
Growth and Enrichment Committee
Chair: Bhama Ramkhelawon
New York University Langone Medical Center
Vice-Chair: Sarvesh Chelvanambi
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Committee Members:
Tanyeri Barak
Yale University
Elisa Boscolo
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Jennifer Fang
Tulane University
David Gordon
University of Michigan Medical School
Skylar King
Washington University in St. Louis
Ramón Lorca
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Glicella Salazar-De Simone
Columbia University Medical Center
Pengchun Yu
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Wei Zhang
Temple University
Membership Committee
Chair: Zhiyu Dai
Washington University in St. Louis
Committee Members:
Katherine Alexander
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Faizah Bhatti
OUHSC
Manasa Chanduri
Yale University
Mitra Esfandiarei
Midwestern University
Yitao Huang
University of Virginia
Prabhash Jha
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Juliana Parente
University of South Carolina, School of Medicine
Laena Pernomian
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Morgan Salmon
University of Michigan
Tong Xu
Amsterdam University Medical Center
Meritorious Awards Committee
Chair: Courtney Griffin
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Committee Members:
Patricia D'Amore
Schepens Eye Research Inst of Mass Eye and Ear/ Harvard Medical School
Jason Fish
University Health Network - Toronto
Gabrielle Fredman
Albany Medical College
Mahdi Garelnabi
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Natasha Harvey
University of South Australia
Benjamin Hogan
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Scott Johnstone
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
Akiko Mammoto
Medical College of Wisconsin
Stefania Nicoli
Yale University Cardiovascular Research Center
Shayn Peirce-Cottler
University of Virginia Health System
Manu Platt
NIH/NIBIB
Beth Roman
University of Pittsburgh
William Sessa
Yale University
Yajaira Suárez
Yale University School of Medicine
Ellie Tzima
University of Oxford
Online Program Committee
Co-Chairs: Cristina Espinosa-Diez
Wayne State University
and Lisandra Vila-Ellis
Northwestern UniversityÂ
Committee Members:
Parya Behzadi
University of Pittsburgh
Patricia Brazee
MGH
Abhijnan Chattopadhyay
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Brenda Cruz-Gonzalez
University of Notre Dame
Milene Fontes
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Cory Johnson
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
Negar Khosraviani
University Health Network
Vivian Lee-Kim
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jing Li
University of Virginia
Priya Mistry
University Health Network
Sana Nasim
Boston Children's Hospital
Suejean Park
University Health Network
Li Chang Jessica Teo
Boston University
Christina Vyzas
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Yifan Yuan
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Vascular Biology Publications Alert
Senior Editors:
Monica Lee
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Juan Melero Martin
Boston Children's Hospital
Somanath PR Shenoy
University of Georgia
Editors:
B. Rita Alevriadou
University at Buffalo-SUNY
Rolf Brekken
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Eric Camerer
INSERM
Selen Catania
NIH
Alexandre Dubrac
Montreal University
Tohru Fukai
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Elena Gallo MacFarlane
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Tara Haas
York University
Carmen Halabi
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Annegret Holm
Boston Childrens Hospital
Andrius Kazlauskas
University of Illinois at Chicago
Akiko Mammoto
Medical College of Wisconsin
Michael May
University of Pennsylvania
Liudmila Romanova
Rush University Medical Center
Morgan Salmon
University of Michigan
Teresa Sanchez Garcia-Vao
Weill Cornell Medical College
Linda Shapiro
University of Connecticut
Rio Sugimura
University of Hong Kong
Kishore Wary
University of Illinois, Chicago
Mary Weiser-Evans
University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus
Jun Yu
Temple University
Newsletter and NewsBEAT
Editor: William R. Huckle
Virginia Tech
Â
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
Maria Febbraio, Ph.D., FAHA
University of Alberta
Edmonton, 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
Holger Gerhardt, Ph.D.
Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine
The Netherlands
Josephine Tan, Ph.D.
Amsterdam UMC
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 SchoolÂ
Boston, MA
David Milstone, M.D., Ph.D.
Brigham & Women's HospitalÂ
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
Kenneth Walsh, Ph.D.
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, VAÂ
William R. Huckle, M.S., Ph.D.
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
David A. Tulis, Ph.D., FAHA
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
Sharon Gerecht, Ph.D.
Duke University
Durham, NC
Boa Kim, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Lianchun Wang, MD
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
Walter Murfee, Ph.D.
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Ololade Ogunsina, M.Sc.
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
Tampa, FL
Xu Xiao
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
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
Anuska Andjelkovic, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Tsutomu Kume, Ph.D.
Northwestern University School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Suellen Darc Oliveira
University of Illinois at Chicago
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
Weilan Ye, Ph.D.
Genentech Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Lay Teng Ang, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Lorelei Shoemaker, Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA
Mei Y. Speer, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
NAVBO Scientific Advisory Board
Kari Alitalo, M.D., Ph.D.
Biomedicum Inst/Univ Helsinki
Laura E Benjamin, PhD
New York, NY 10014 United StatesÂ
Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Rochester Medical Center
Harold Dvorak, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterÂ
Napoleone Ferrara, M.D.
University of California, San Diego
Mary Gerritsen, Ph.D.
San Mateo, CA
Michael A. Gimbrone Jr., MD
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Mark H. Ginsberg, M.D.
University of California, San Diego
Jordan S. Pober, M.D., Ph.D.
Yale Univ School of Med
Samuel D. Wright, Ph.D.
CSL Limited
Orr, A. ​Wayne (2025-2026)
LSU Health - Shreveport
Jason Fish (2024-2025)
University Health Network - Toronto
Kristy Red-Horse (2023-2024)
Stanford University
Christopher Hughes (2022-2023)
University of California, Irvine
Courtney Griffin (2021-2022)
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Masanori Aikawa (2020-2021)
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Ondine Cleaver (2019-2020)
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Michelle Bendeck (2018-2019)
University of Toronto
Cecilia Giachelli (2017-2018)
University of Washington
Jan Kitajewski (2016-2017)
University of Illinois at Chicago
Joyce Bischoff (2015-2016)
Boston Children's Hospital
Karen Hirschi (2014-2015)
University of Virginia
Klaus Ley (2013-2014)
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Victoria Bautch (2012-2013)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tim Hla (2011-2012)
Boston Children's Hospital
William Sessa (2010-2011)
Pfizer, Inc.
Brant Weinstein (2009-2010)
NICHD/NIH
Mark Majesky (2008-2009)
University of Washington
Mark Ginsberg (2007-2008)
University of California, San Diego
Luisa Iruela-Arispe (2006-2007)
Northwestern University
Michael Simons (2005-2006)
Yale School of Medicine
William Muller (2004-2005)
Northwestern University
Linda Demer (2003-2004)
University of California, Los Angeles
Paul DiCorleto (2002-2003)
Retired
Alexander Clowes* (2001-2002)
University of Washington
Mary E. Gerritsen (2000-2001)
Gerritsen Consulting
Bradford Berk (1999-2000)
University of Rochester Medical Center
Gary Owens (1998-1999)
University of Virginia
Jordan Pober (1997-1998)
Yale School of Medicine
Elizabeth Nabel (1996-1997)
ModeX Therapeutics
Stephen Schwartz* (1995-1996)
University of Washington
Michael Gimbrone (1994-1995)
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
*Deceased