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 of BloodCenter of Wisconsin and the BloodCenter Research Institute
Former President and CEO of Versiti, Inc.
Mary Burke, MBA
CEO and Founder, Building Brave
John Burris, Ph.D.
Emeritus President, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Harvey Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, 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
Tess Gardner, M.S.
Project/Technical Lead, AMP Insights
Erik Iverson, JD, LLM
Chief Executive Officer, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Deborah Keller, MBA
Retired, Chief Executive Officer of Covance Drug Development
Patricia Lipton, M.S.
Retired Executive Director, State of Wisconsin Investment Board
Eric Morgridge. B.A.
Senior Manager, Production Operations, Major League Soccer
John Morgridge, MBA
Chairman Emeritus, Cisco Systems
Tashia Morgridge, M.S.
Author and Retired Educator
John Neis, CFA
Managing Director, VENTUREINVESTORS
Thomas F. Pyle Jr., MBA
Chairman, The Pyle Group LLC
Retired Chairman, President, CEO and Principal Owner, Rayovac Corporation
Fred Robertson, MBA, M.D.
Venture Partner, Baird Capital Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin Retired CEO, Director, TomoTherapy
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
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, M.S., MBA, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Wisconsin Founder and Former Chairman, Berbee Information Networks Corporation
Thomas M. Krummel, M.D.
Venture Partner, Sante Emile Holman Professor and Chair Emeritus Stanford University School of Medicine Co-Director Emeritus, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign
Carol Skornicka, M.A. J.D.
Retired Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel, Midwest Airlines
Joan Spero, M.A., Ph.D.
Retired President, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Jan Ver Hagen, B.S.
Retired, Emerson Electric
David Whitwam, B.S.
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
John Durant, MA, Ph.D., Past Chair
MIT Museum Director and Adjunct Professor in the Science, Technology & Society Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ian Fisk, Ph.D.
Scientific Computing Core Co-Director, Simon Foundation, Flatiron Institute
Christina Kendziorski, Ph.D.
Professor and Principal Investigator, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christina Leslie, Ph.D.
Professor and Principal Investigator, Computational and Systems Biology Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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