AFAR Selection Committees
AFAR's committees are comprised of experts in aging research and related areas of research who volunteer their time and expertise to the AFAR review processes. Their dedication, enthusiasm and commitment is crucial to the success of AFAR's grant programs.

2007 AFAR Research Committee
(Reviews grant proposals for the AFAR Research Grant, the Julie Martin Mid-Career Awards in Aging Research, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Alzheimer's Disease, Fannie E. Rippel Foundation/AFAR New Investigator Awards on Gender Differences and Aging, and the Ellison Medical Foundation/AFAR Senior Postdoctoral Research Program)

ESTHER DUPONT-VERSTEEGDEN, Ph.D.
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Laura L. Dugan, M.D.
University of California, San Diego

Richard F. Loeser, Jr., M.D.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine

2007 NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COUNCIL (NSAC) (Reviews grant proposals for the AFAR Research Grant, the Julie Martin Mid-Career Awards in Aging Research, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Alzheimer's Disease, Fannie E. Rippel Foundation/AFAR New Investigator Awards on Gender Differences and Aging, and the Ellison Medical Foundation/AFAR Senior Postdoctoral Research Program)


ITAMAR ABRASS, M.D.
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

MARTIN L. ADAMO, Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas

GJUMRAKCH ALIEV, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio

LIANA APOSTOLOVA, M.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

ROBERT ARKING, Ph.D.
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

VALERIE ASKANAS, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

CRAIG S. ATWOOD, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

GAL BITAN, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

XANDRA O. BREAKEFIELD, Ph.D.
Massachusettes General Hospital
Harvard University
Charlestown, Massachusetts

SUSAN V. BROOKS, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

SANDY CHANG, M.D., Ph.D.
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

JAMES CHROBAK, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

ANNE ETGEN, Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York

MARCUS FECHHEIMER, Ph.D.
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

XIAOLIN GE, Ph.D.
Mata Systems, Inc.
Phoenix, Arizona

ARY L. GOLDBERGER, M.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess/Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts

LUC E. GOSSELIN, Ph.D.
University at Buffalo-SUNY
Buffalo, New York

MING GUO, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

SUDHIR GUPTA, Ph.D., M.D.
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California

LYNN HARRISON, Ph.D.
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Shreveport, Louisiana

PAUL HASTY, D.V.M.
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas

JAY HEINECKE, M.D.
Univeristy of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington

STEPHEN L. HELFAND, M.D.
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

VICTOR W. HENDERSON, M.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, California

RUSSELL T. HEPPLE, Ph.D.
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta

KEVIN P. HIGH, M.D.
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

YUJI IKENO, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas

GABOR KALEY, Ph.D.
New York Medical College
Valhalla, New York

PANKAJ KAPAHI, Ph.D.
Buck Institute for Age Research
Novato, California

DANIEL A. KIRSCHNER, Ph.D.
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

SIMON KLEBANOV, Ph.D.
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
New York, New York

JAN KRZYSZTOF BLUSZTAJN, Ph.D.
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts

MAKOTO KURO-O, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

STEVEN L. LEHMAN, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

CYNTHIA A. LEMERE, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts

ANDREW P. LIEBERMAN, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan

SU-JU LIN, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Davis, California

PHYLLIS-JEAN LINTON, Ph.D.
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
San Diego, California

RUI-MING LIU, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

REBEKAH LOY, Ph.D.
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

CINDY A. LUSTIG, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

MICHAEL S. MEGA, M.D., Ph.D.
Providence Brain Institute
Portland, Oregon

HAYAT ONYUKSEL, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

RAVICHANDRAN RAMASAMY, Ph.D.
Columbia University
New York, New York

JOHN M. RINGMAN, M.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

KUMAR SAMBAMURTI, Ph.D.
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina

CLEMENS R. SCHERZER, M.D.
Brigham & Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, Massachusetts

DAVID SCHLESSINGER, Ph.D.
National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health
Baltimore, Maryland

ANN MARIE SCHMIDT, M.D.
Columbia University
New York, New York

HEIDI SCRABLE, Ph.D.
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

CHRISTIAN SELL, Ph.D.
Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

NORMAN E. SHARPLESS, M.D.
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

SCOTT SMALL, M.D.
Columbia University
New York, New York

DEREK L. STIREWALT, M.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington

RANDY STRONG, Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas

DENNIS TAUB, Ph.D.
National Institute of Aging
National Institutes of Health
Baltimore, Maryland

MARILYN THOMAN, Ph.D.
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
San Diego, California

HEIDI TISSENBAUM, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, Massachusetts

BARRY R. ZIRKIN, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland