
About
Board of Trustees
Victor A. McKusick, M.D.
Father of Medical Genetics, 1921 - 2008
Emeritus University Professor of Medical Genetics,
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine,
Johns Hopkins University
Victor was a longtime friend, colleague and board member for the JCVI. We were saddened by his death on July 22, 2008 as we and the world have lost a giant in the field of genetics.
J. Craig Venter, Ph.D.
Chairman and President, J. Craig Venter Institute
Erling J. Norrby, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice Chairman, J. Craig Venter Institute; Professor at the Center for History of Science, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
John H. Coleman, Ph.D.
President and Founder of Plasma Physics Corp and Solar Physics Corp
Rita R. Colwell, Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health; Senior Advisor and Chairman Emeritus, Canon U.S. Life Sciences; President and CEO, CosmosID, Inc.
Theodore N. Danforth
Private Investor
Jack E. Dixon, Ph.D.
Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Juan C. Enriquez
Managing Director of Excel Medical Ventures; Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy, LLC
William R. Harman, J.D.
Private Investor
Kenneth Nealson, Ph.D.
Distinguished Investigator, J. Craig Venter Institute; Wrigley Professor of Geobiology, USC
Dean Ornish, M.D.
Founder and President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute; and Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Thomas J. Schneider, Ph.D., J.D.
President, CEO and Founder of Restructuring Associates Inc.; Chairman and CEO of Schneider (Australia) Consulting, Ltd., Pty.; Of-Counsel at the law firm of O’Connor and Hannan
Hamilton O. Smith, M.D.
Scientific Director, Synthetic Biology and Bioenergy Groups, J. Craig Venter Institute
Robert L. Strausberg, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, J. Craig Venter Institute
Susan Serota Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

