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Drug Discovery

Terry L. Bowlin, PhD (Chair)

Chief Executive Officer

Microbiotix, Inc.
Seena K. Ajit, PhD

Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Physiology
College of Medicine

Drexel University
David J. Aldous, PhD

Deputy Head of NA Hub Research Council

Sanofi
Nariman Balenga, PhD

Principal Scientist II

Schrödinger
Craig T. Basson, MD, PhD

Chief Medical Officer

Bitterroot Bio, Inc.
Luke H. Bradley, PhD

Professor & Acting Chair, Dept. of Neuroscience
College of Medicine

University of Kentucky
Allan R. Brasier, MD

Senior Associate Dean
Clinical and Translational Research
School of Medicine and Public Health

University of Wisconsin
Elizabeth M. Byrnes, PhD

Professor & Associate Chair
Dept. of Comparative Pathology
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

Tufts University
Raymond Evers, PhD

Scientific Director and Fellow, DMPK

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
Kevin Guckian, PhD

Medicinal Chemist

Biogen
Maire Fiona Jung, PhD

Assistant Vice President
Genetic Medicine – Therapeutic Applications

Eli Lilly & Company
Michy P. Kelly, PhD

Associate Professor, Dept. of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Center for Research on Aging
School of Medicine

University of Maryland
Michelle Kimple, PhD

Associate Professor, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
School of Medicine and Public Health

University of Wisconsin
Fernanda Laezza, MD, PhD

Mary J. Palmer Saunders Professor
Graduate Program Director & Professor
Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology

University of Texas Medical Branch
Alastair Lawson, PhD

Vice President and Senior Fellow

UCB
Frank Lee, PhD

Vice President, Biology

Angex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Erika Mathes Lisabeth, PhD

Assistant Professor & Director of Assay Development & Drug Discovery Core
Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Michigan State University
Ditte Lovatt, PhD

Associate Principal Scientist

Merck
Mark S. Marshall, PhD

Scientific Director of Precision Medicine

Riley Hospital for Children
Nicholas Pullen, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer 

ARTBIO
Gary O. Rankin, PhD

Vice Dean for Basic Sciences
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences
Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine

Marshall University
Darryle D. Schoepp, PhD

Retired as Vice President & Therapeutic Area Head Neuroscience, Discovery, Preclinical and Early Development

Merck Research Laboratories
Jonathan Sockolosky, PhD

Director, Company Value Creation

Curie Bio
Danyelle M. Townsend, PhD

Professor, Drug Discovery and Experimental Therapeutics
Director, Analytical Redox Biochemistry

Medical University of South Carolina
Scott A. Waldman, MD, PhD

Samuel M.V. Hamilton Professor of Medicine
Chair, Dept. of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
Director, MD/PhD Program

Thomas Jefferson University
Jun Wang, PhD

Associate Professor
Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Wei Wang, PhD

Co-Director, Arizona Center for Drug Discovery
Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology

University of Arizona
Maria Wilson, PhD

Executive Director, Project Team Leadership

Genentech
Megan Yao, PhD

Retired as VP of Oncology Translational  Medicine

Eli Lilly & Company