The Wertheim UF Scripps institute External Advisory Board
Dedication to Research Excellence
The External Advisory Board members’ knowledge and expertise helps advance the institute’s mission and commitment to the highest quality research.
The mission of The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology is to advance human health through biomedical research, drug discovery and clinical studies, while providing outstanding educational opportunities to inspire and train the next generation of scientists.
External Advisory Board Members
Proteomics and chemical biology
Ben Cravatt, Ph.D.
Gilula Chair of Chemical Biology and Professor, Department of Chemistry; Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, California. Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Immunobiology, translational science
Jack Elias, M.D., Ph.D.
Founder of the Brown Institute for Translational Science and the Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact Fund at Brown University; Warren Alpert Foundation Professor of Translational Science; Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry; Professor of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
drug discovery and development, pharmacokinetics
Steve Hitchcock, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer, Takada, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
messenger rna biology and decay
Lynne Maquat, Ph.D.
Founding Director of the Center for RNA Biology and Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.
molecular biology of neuroscience
Lisa Monteggia, Ph.D.
Barlow Family Director of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University.
cancer proteomics
Henry Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Founding Director of the Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research at the National Cancer Institute, of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
biology of metabolic disease
Bruce Spiegelman, Ph.D.
Stanley J. Korsmeyer Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Member, National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
virology and infectious disease
Mario Stevenson, Ph.D.
Director of the Institute of AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Director of the Global Virus Network, Co-Director of the Miami Center for AIDS Research, Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Miami.