2007 SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
MARK M. DAVIS, Ph.D., CHAIRMAN
Chair and Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
DANIEL LITTMAN, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology
NYU School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
ELLEN ROTHENBERG, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Biology
California Institute of Technology
SAMUEL STROBER, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology
Stanford University School of Medicine
SUSAN L. SWAIN, Ph.D.
President Emeritus, Trudeau Institute
2006 SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
MARK M. DAVIS, Ph.D., CHAIRMAN
Chair and Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
DANIEL LITTMAN, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology
NYU School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dr. Littman is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Coordinator of the Molecular Pathogenesis program at the Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine at New York University School of Medicine. He was formerly Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. He holds M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests are in the areas of T lymphocyte development, lymphoid organogenesis, and HIV pathogenesis. He has applied mouse genetic approaches towards gaining insights into each of these areas. His contributions have led to new therapeutic approaches for AIDS and autoimmune diseases. Dr. Littman is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the 2004 New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology.
ELLEN ROTHENBERG, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Biology
California Institute of Technology
Ellen Rothenberg is Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) where she has been on the faculty since 1982. Her research focuses on the molecular biology of T lymphocyte development from hematopoietic stem cells, at the interface of developmental biology, immunology, gene regulation, and evolution of immunity. Her laboratory has led in genetic regulatory network analysis of the stem-cell to T-cell transition, and currently applies in vitro differentiation systems, mouse genetics, gene discovery, cis-regulatory element mapping, and temporally-specific genetic perturbation approaches to identify the positive and negative regulatory events required for this process. She has authored over 100 scientific articles including several monograph-length reviews of the T-cell development field.
After graduating summa cum laude in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard, she obtained her Ph.D. in the laboratory of David Baltimore at MIT, where she studied retroviral genome replication biochemistry and genetic organization. She moved to the T-cell development field first as a Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center with Edward A. Boyse, and then as a junior faculty member at the Salk Institute before coming to Caltech.She has served on grant review panels for the American Cancer Society, the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, and the Hereditary Disease Foundation as well as ad hoc review panels for NASA, visiting committees for NCI, NIA, and intramural NIH reviews, and has also served a four-year membership on the IMS Study Section of DRG/NIH. She is a member of the external scientific advisory boards for the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Research Foundation and the La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor of Immunity and a Section Editor of the Journal of Immunology. The recipient of six teaching awards at Caltech, she has also been an invited lecturer in the Japanese Society for Immunology summer course and in three American Association of Immunology summer courses.
2005 SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
MARK M. DAVIS, Ph.D., CHAIRMANChair and Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Stanford University School of Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
KIM BOTTOMLY, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Immunobiology
Yale Univesity School of Medicine
DANIEL LITTMAN, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology and Microbiology
NYU School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
GERALD NEPOM, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Benaroya Research Institute
ELLEN ROTHENBERG, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Biology
California Institute of Technology
2004 SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
WILLIAM E. PAUL M.D., CHAIRMAN
Chief and Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Immunology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Member, National Academy of Sciences
JOHN C. CAMBIER, Ph.D.
CHAIRMAN
Integrated Department of Immunology
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and National Jewish Medical and Research Center
MARK M. DAVIS, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
STEPHEN HEDRICK, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biology
University of California, San Diego
PAMELA SCHWARTZBERG, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health
