The members of the board of trustees share in our drive to advance interdisciplinary biomedical research and leverage the strength of our collaborative partnerships.
Jacquelyn Fredrick, MBA, Chair
Former President and CEO, BloodCenter of Wisconsin and the BloodCenter Research Institute
Former President and CEO, Versiti, Inc.
John E. Burris, Ph.D.
Emeritus President, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Harvey Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine
James Dahlberg, Ph.D.
Former Interim Chief Executive Officer, Morgridge Institute for Research
Professor Emeritus, Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin
Founder, Third Wave Technologies
John Durant, MA, PhD, DSc (Hon)
Former Director, MIT Museum
Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Science, Technology, and Society Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Travelle Ellis, MD, PhD
Screening Medical Officer
Abbott Cancer Diagnostics
Gregg Fergus, BS
Former Chief Executive Officer, 4Catalyzer
Tess Gardner, M.S.
Senior Project/Technical Lead, Fluent Freshwater Insights
Erik Iverson, JD, LLM
Chief Executive Officer, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Eric Morgridge. B.A.
Former Director, Production Operations, Major League Soccer
John Neis, CFA
Founding Partner, Clarevia Ventures
Thomas F. Pyle Jr., MBA
Chairman, The Pyle Group LLC
Retired Chairman, President, CEO and Principal Owner, Rayovac Corporation
Kathryn Richmond, Ph.D., MBA
Vice President of Science, Fund for Science and Technology
Fred Robertson, MBA, M.D.
Venture Partner, Baird Capital
Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin
Former CEO and Director, TomoTherapy, Inc.
Winslow L. Sargeant, Ph.D.
CEO, Purple Team Technologies, Inc.
Senior Advisor for Globalization and Head of Capital Markets, Genaesis, LLC
Chair, International Council for Small Business
Tom Westrick, BBA, CPA
Former President and CEO, GE Healthcare – Patient Care Solutions
Keith Yamamoto, PhD
Special Advisor to the Chancellor, Science Policy & Strategy
Vice Chancellor for Research, Emeritus
Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, Emeritus
University of California, San Francisco
Brad Schwartz, M.D.
Chief Executive Officer, Morgridge Institute for Research
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin
Emeritus Trustees
James Berbee
Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine, UW Health
Mary Burke
CEO and Founder, Building Brave
Carl Gulbrandsen (in memoriam)
Retired Managing Director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Pat Lipton
Retired Executive Director
State of Wisconsin Investment Board
Deb Keller
Retired Chief Executive Officer
Covance Drug Development
Thomas M. Krummel, MD
Venture Partner, Santé
Emile Holman Professor and Chair Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine
Ernest Micek (in memoriam)
Retired CEO, Cargill, Inc.
John Morgridge, MBA
Chairman Emeritus, Cisco Systems
Tashia Morgridge, M.S.
Author and Retired Educator
Terri Potter (in memoriam)
Retired, CEO, Meriter Hospital
President, Potter Consulting, Inc.
Burnell Roberts (in memoriam)
Retired CEO, Mead Corporation
John Rowe (in memoriam)
Retired Chairman, Exelon Corp.
Carol Skornicka
Retired Senior Vice President-Corporate Affairs, Secretary and General Counsel
Midwest Air Group
Kathy Smith (in memoriam)
Retired, Daubert Industries
Joan Spero
Former President, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University
Peter Tong (in memoriam)
Private Equity Investor
Jan Ver Hagan (in memoriam)
Retired, Emerson Electric
David Whitwam
Retired CEO, Whirlpool Corp.
Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Board provides important insight and feedback on the institute’s core research directions.
Andrew Dillin, Ph.D., Chair
Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Rohit Bhargava, Ph.D.
Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Professor
Phillip and Ann Sharp Director, Cancer Center at Illinois
Director, Tissue Microenvironment Training Program
Associate Director, NSF Science & Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Steven Farber, Ph. D.
Director, CMBD Graduate Program
Professor, Department of Biology
Johns Hopkins University
Founder, BioEYES
Ian Fisk, Ph.D.
Director, Scientific Computing Core
Flatiron Institute
Chief Technology Officer
Simons Foundation
Christina Kendziorski, Ph.D.
Professor and Principal Investigator, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Erika Matunis, Ph.D.
Professor and Principal Investigator, Department of Cell Biology
Johns Hopkins University
Amy McGuire , J.D., Ph.D.
Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Baylor College of Medicine
Karl Munger, Ph.D.
Dorothy Todd Bishop Research Professor
Professor and Chair, Department of Developmental, Molecular and Chemical Biology
Tufts University School of Medicine
Richard Sever, Ph.D.
Chief Science and Strategy Officer, openRxiv
Co-Founder, bioRxiv & medRxiv
Senior Lecturer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory