Scientific Advisory Board

Current SAB Members

Rachel Green, Ph.D.

Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Dr. Green has been with Johns Hopkins University since 1998, where she is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Director of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. She received her B.S. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Green is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and has received multiple professional awards and honors.

Stephen Harrison, Ph.D.

Professor, Director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Harrison has spent the bulk of his career at Harvard University, from which he received both his B.A. and Ph.D. He has served on several Scientific Advisory and Editorial Boards.  Professional societies of which he is a member include the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Crystallographic Association.  He has received multiple professional awards and honors during his career.

Grant Jensen, Ph.D.

Dean, College of Computational, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences, Brigham Young University

Dr. Jensen joined Brigham Young University in 2020, where he serves as Dean of the College of Computational, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Prior to BYU, he spent nearly two decades at the California Institute of Technology as Professor of Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. A pioneer in cryo-electron tomography, his research focuses on visualizing macromolecular complexes within intact cells. He received his B.S. from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Dr. Jensen has received numerous professional awards and honors during his career.

Michael Sattler, Ph.D.

Professor, Helmholtz Munich and Technical University of Munich, Germany

Dr. Sattler is internationally recognized for his work in structural biology and NMR spectroscopy. He studied chemistry at the University of Frankfurt and conducted postdoctoral research at Abbott Laboratories. He established his independent group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg before joining Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich in 2007. Dr. Sattler is a member of EMBO and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and has received the Erwin Schrödinger Prize / Stifterverband Science Award among other awards and honors.

Past SAB Members

Adriaan Bax, Ph.D.

Chief of Biophysical NMR Spectroscopy Section, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Bax has been with the National Institutes of Health since 1983. He received both his B.S. and Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.  Dr. Bax has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2002.  Over the past three decades, he has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the E. Bright Wilson Award of the American Chemical Society.

Richard Henderson, Ph.D.

Program Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK

Dr. Henderson is the co-recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work related to cryo-electron microscopy.  Dr. Henderson has been with the University of Cambridge, from which he received his Ph.D., since 1973. He received his B.S. from Edinburgh University.  Dr. Henderson is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, among them the Distinguished Scientist Award and Fellow, Microscopy Society of America.

Ruth Lehmann, Ph.D.

Professor of Biology; Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Lehmann became director of the Whitehead Institute in 2020 after serving in leadership roles at NYU from 1996 to 2020, including as director of the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and Chair of the Department of Cell Biology. She has received multiple professional awards and honors during her career. Dr. Lehmann received her undergraduate degree and Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and president of the American Society for Cell Biology.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Ph.D.

Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK

Dr. Ramakrishnan is the co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the atomic structure of the ribosome. Dr. Ramakrishnan has been with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge since 1999. He received his B.S. from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and Ph.D. from Ohio University. Dr. Ramakrishnan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and, from November 2015 until November 2020, was President of the Royal Society. He has received multiple professional awards and honors during his career

Harold Varmus, Ph.D.

Professor, Senior Advisor to the Dean and Provost, Weill Cornell Medicine

Senior Associate Core Member, New York Genome Center

Dr. Varmus is the co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studies of the genetic basis of cancer. He has also been the recipient of many other awards and honors, among them the National Science Foundation’s Vannevar Bush Award. His academic credentials include a B.A. from Amherst College, M.A. from Harvard University and M.D. from Columbia University.  Dr. Varmus joined Weill Cornell Medical College in 2015 following his tenure as Director of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.