TAMR Science committee

November 10th, 2009 by Admin

Co-chairs

William Brinkley, Ph.D.,
Baylor College of Medicine
  • Senior Vice President for Graduate Sciences and Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas Distinguished Service Professor, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas
  • Co-Director, W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas
  • Past President of the American Society for Cell Biology Past President of the International Federation for Cell Biology
  • Past President of The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) – the nation’s largest organization of biomedical scientists, consisting of 60,000 members, and National Spokesperson for U.S. science policy and issues affecting biomedical research in America
  • Member, Board of Directors, Research!America Past President, Campaign for Medical Research (National Institutes of Heath Funding)
  • Elected Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies-1999–

Bettie Sue Masters, Ph.D., D.Sc., M.D. (Hon.)
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

  • President, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-2002-2004
  • Elected Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies-1996–
  • Member, Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health-2000-2004
  • The Robert A. Welch Foundation Distinguished Professor in Chemistry, The Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio-1990–
  • Women’s Leadership Council of San Antonio-2001-
  • Member, Advisory Council to the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health-2004-2008

Members

Rudeina Baasiri, Ph.D.
Science Advisor in Winston & Strawn’s Houston office

  • Member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, Houston Intellectual Property Law Association, and BioHouston, Inc.
  • Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Plant Pathology from Texas A&M University

Larry A. Denner, Ph.D.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

  • Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
  • Associate Director of Research, Stark Diabetes Center
  • Director, McCoy Diabetes Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
  • Senior Scientist, Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine

Ralph Dittman, MD, MPH, MCSE Surgeon

  • Surgeon Author and Playwright

Peter J. Hornsby, Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

  • Professor Department of Physiology
  • Cross-Appointed, Department of Surgery
  • Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies University of Texas Health Science Center

Ellen Kraig, Ph.D.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

  • Professor, Department of Cellular and structural Biology

Vivienne Rebel, M.D., Ph.D.
UT Health Science Center at San Antonio

  • Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute
  • The Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies

Paul Simmons, Ph.D
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

  • Institute of Molecular Medicine
  • Professor and Director of the Centre for Stem Cell Research at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine.
  • Past President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)

Christi A. Walter, Ph.D.
UT Health Science Center San Antonio

  • Professor and Chair Department of Cellular and Structural Biology
    The Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies

 

The members of the TAMR Board, Advisory Board and committees serve as individuals. Their credentials are listed only to demonstrate the members’ areas of expertise.

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