Advisory Committee
(2026-2028)
Dr. Che-Kun James Shen
(Chairman)
- Genetic control, development; diseases
- Distinguished Visiting Chair, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica
Dr. Claude Desplan
- Generation of neural diversity, aging, Drosophila genetics
- Silver Professor; Professor of Biology and Neural Science, NYU
Dr. Joe Ecker
- Epigenetic regulations, plant biologist, mouse and human cells
- Professor, Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory
- Director, Genomic Analysis Laboratory
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
- Salk International Council Chair in Genetics
Dr. James E. Ferrell
- Systems Biology
Dr. Mien-Chie Hung
- Cell cycle, Cancer biology
- Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- President, China Medical University
Dr. Arthur Lander
- Systems biology of development and disease
- Donald Bren Professor, Developmental and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences Director, Center for Complex Biological Systems
Dr. Jeannie Tsun-Huei Lee
- Epigenetics, RNA biology, X-chromosome inactivation
- Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Phillip A. Sharp Chair in Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Vice Chair of the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Professor of Genetics and Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Liqun Luo
- Neuroscience, cell and molecular biology, Drosophila and mouse genetics
Dr. Timothy Mitchison
- Systems Biology
- Hasib Sabbagh Professor, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Andrew Murray
- Evolutionary biology, molecular biology
- Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Director, Rowland Institute
- Director, John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellows Program
Dr. Li-Huei Tsai
- Neuroscience
- Cell Biology
- Molecular Biology
- Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Director, The Picower Institute for Learning & Memory Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Detlef Weigel
- Plant Genetics
- Plant Microbiology