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Appendix B: Committee Biographies
Appendix B: Committee Biographies
Pages 97-108
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Prior to joining Genentech, Dr. Desmond-Hellmann was associate director of clinical cancer research at Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research 97
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His research is best demonstrated through his earlier studies of BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase function in chronic myeloid leukemia, his work with Brian Druker and Novartis in the development of the kinase inhibitor imatinib/Gleevec as primary therapy for CML, and his discovery that imatinib resistance is caused by BCR-ABL kinase domain mutations. This discovery led Dr.
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Cox, M.D., Ph.D., serves as Chief Scientific Officer for the Applied Quantitative Genotherapeutics Unit of Pfizer's Worldwide Research & Development. This new unit brings together human genetics, systems biology, and cell biology, combining internal capabilities with outside collaborations, to focus on increasing preclinical target validation with the aim of significantly improving clinical survival.
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, the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum (he began a four year term as Presi dent in 2010) , the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (the National Academy of the Lynxes)
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Dr. Hunter analyzes inherited susceptibility to cancer and other chronic diseases using molecular techniques and studying molecular markers of envi ronmental exposures.
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He is also National Program Director for the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics, a career development award for bioethics researchers. He directs the Regulatory Knowledge Support Component of the NIH-funded Clinical and Translational Science Institute at UCSF and is Co-Director of the Policy and Ethics Core of the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.
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Sean J Morrison, Ph.D., is the Director of the Children's Research Institute and the Mary McDermott Cook Chair in Pediatric Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as well as an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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He has written more than 80 professional journal articles and abstracts, held 17 guest professorships, headed more than 20 symposia, and delivered more than 115 guest lectures. He also has been editor-in-chief of the leading textbooks in pediatric critical care medicine and edited Rogers Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care and Critical Heart Disease in Infants and Children.
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Royal was Assistant Profes sor of Pediatrics and Director of the GenEthics Unit in the National Human Genome Center at Howard University. She serves on the Bioethics Advisory Committee of the March of Dimes Foundation, Social Issues Committee of the American Society of Human Genetics, Editorial Board of the American Journal of Bioethics, and various other professional committees and boards.
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Dr. Yamamoto was a founding editor of Molecular Biology of the Cell, and serves on numerous editorial boards and scientific advisory boards, and national committees focused on public and scientific policy, public understanding and support of biological research, and science educa tion; he chairs the Coalition for the Life Sciences (formerly the Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy)
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Since joining the Board on Life Sciences in 2009, he has served as Program Associate for variety of projects, including Responsible Research with Biological Select Agents and Toxins (2009) , Challenges and Opportunities for Education about Dual Use Issues in Life Sciences Research (2010)
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