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Appendix C: Committee Member Biographies
Pages 143-150

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... Sloan Foundation (where he is chair of the board) , the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, the Universities Research Association, and the Educational Testing Service, he also serves as a director of the Dow Chemical Company.
From page 144...
... , is the Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco. He won the Nobel Prize together with UCSF colleague Harold Varmus for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes.
From page 145...
... Gavin has received are the Daniel Hale Williams Award, the E.E. lust Award, the Herbert Nickens Award, the Daniel Savage Memorial Award, the Emory University Medal for Distinguished Achievement, the Banting Medal for Distinguished Service from the American Diabetes Association, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Duke University School of Medicine, and the Internist of the Year from the National Medical Association.
From page 146...
... Debra Lappin, {D, Princeton Partners, Ltd., served on the NIH Director's Council of Public Representatives from 1999 to 2003. While on the COPR, she chaired its working group on Human Research Protections, served on ad hoc advisory committees addressing NIH Oversight of Human Gene Transfer Research and Trans-NIH Pediatric Research, and provided a "public perspective" of clinical research issues in a number of national settings.
From page 147...
... He served as Associate Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and then the Office of Management and Budget in the Carter Administration, and chaired the Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management from 1994-97. He has been a National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Awardee, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and founding director of the University of Washington Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.
From page 148...
... She has been a member of two NIH Advisory Councils National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and the National Research Resources Counciland served as Director of the NIH US/Russia Cardiovascular Biology Program. She currently serves as a member of the Defense Science Research Council of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
From page 149...
... He also directs training of psychiatrists in health services research and is the Principal Investigator and Director of the NIMH-UCLA-NPI Faculty Scholars Program in mental health services research and Associate Director of the UCLA School of Medicine's Clinical Scholars Program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
From page 150...
... For her work on behalf of medical research, she has been awarded the Distinguished Contribution to Research Administration Award from the Society of Research Administrators, the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Dean's Award for Distinguished Service, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Special Award for Science Advocacy, and the Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research's Health Advocacy Award.


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