The council was established to advise the NIH Director on policies and activities of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI), including making recommendations on research that represents important areas of emerging scientific opportunities, rising public health challenges, or knowledge gaps that deserve special emphasis or would otherwise benefit from strategic planning and coordination.

 

The council is composed of 27 members nominated by the NIH Institutes and Centers and from the Council of Public Representatives, an advisory committee to the NIH Office of the Director. Council members bring knowledge of institutes and centers and Office of the Director Office missions and operations, not as official representatives, but to provide advice beyond the research agenda of any individual institute or center.

 

The new members:

 

Philip O. Alderson, M.D., Saint Louis University

Marlene Belfort, Ph.D., University of Albany, State University of New York

Ana M. Cuervo, M.D., Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

Judy E. Garber, M.D., M.P.H., Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston

Lila Gierasch, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

King K. Holmes, M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle

Norma Sue Kenyon, Ph.D., University of Miami School of Medicine

Terry Magnuson, Ph.D., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Norbert J. Pelc, Sc.D., Richard M. Lucas Center for Imaging, Clark Center, Stanford, California