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.
John E. Burris, Ph.D.
Emeritus President, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Harvey Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.
Emeritus 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
Gregg Fergus, BS
Former Chief Executive Officer, 4Catalyzer
Tess Gardner, M.S.
Project/Technical Lead, AMP Insights
Erik Iverson, JD, LLM
Chief Executive Officer, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
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, Venture Investors LLC
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
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.
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
Private Equity Investor
Jan Ver Hagan
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
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